Extortions ‘R Us –
How is Trump like Putin? Let me count the ways:
“Rather than having the boring system we take for granted, where you have laws based on facts, instead you have a personality who makes up his own reality”- Timothy Snyder, WaPo 10/3/19
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How is Trump like Putin? Let me count the ways:
“Rather than having the boring system we take for granted, where you have laws based on facts, instead you have a personality who makes up his own reality”- Timothy Snyder, WaPo 10/3/19
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...At first, that reality is just confusing and seems to gum up the works, but after a while, the leader starts to draw people into that reality by making them defend it or making them prove it. This is what’s happening here.”
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“Trump is declaring for himself the power to engage in bottomless corruption to prevent a legitimate election from removing him, while also declaring that any effort to impeach him for those corrupt acts is inherently illegitimate”- Greg Sargent, 10/2/19
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"The framers gave the power of impeachment to the House because (and this was even truer at the time) its members, who are voted on every two years, are the people’s most direct representatives."- Greg Sargent, WaPo 10/2/19
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