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I know it's almost tiresome to talk of Trump as a straight-out gangster, but in this @latimes article we see him make an implicit wish that he could order the killing of an informant. latimes.com/politics/story…
@latimes I keep citing this @chrislhayes op-ed because of its absolute prescience in foreshadowing the conduct of Trump's entire crowd of crooks. nytimes.com/2018/03/17/opi…
@latimes @chrislhayes "In [Trump's] view, crime is not defined by a specific offense. Crime is defined by who commits it. If a young black man grabs a white woman by the crotch, he’s a thug … But if Donald Trump grabs a white woman by the crotch in a nightclub … it’s locker-room high jinks." 
@latimes @chrislhayes So in Trump's mind, if Russia were to hack Hillary Clinton's email server, that's heroism — but if a federal employee acting under long-established whistleblower protections exposes Trump's wrongdoing, it's off to the gallows.
@latimes @chrislhayes Which is Q.E.D. — and which we already understand from Trump's conduct in this very scandal, where he casually said that a foreign-service employee impeding his scheme was "going to go through some things." huffpost.com/entry/trump-th…
@latimes @chrislhayes (Ugh, I broke the thread:)
@latimes @chrislhayes (… rest of thread gap:)
@latimes @chrislhayes Yep.
