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Hakeem Jeffries says: to believe Trump's narrative, you have to believe Trump is an "corruption crusader," but there's no evidence that Trump is an anti-corruption crusader.

I can't type the words "Trump is an anti-corruption crusader" without falling out of my chair, laughing.
Funny typo.

Should have been "anti-corruption crusader" in quotations not "corruption crusader."

Did I slip and write: Trump is a corruption crusader.
You are all very kind.
I generally blame errors on keyboard gremlins. For that one, the gremlins were feeling mischievous.
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Censure ⤵️is a group vote strongly reprimanding a president for wrongful behavior.

When a House of Congress votes to censure a president, it’s a big deal. It's only been done once in our history.

Here's why I think a censure of Trump is on the horizon.

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Andrew Jackson was the only US president to be censured, and the blot on his record bothered him deeply. His allies worked years to get the censure expunged from the record.

(My source is the bibliography for my own book⤵️. The story is also here:
senate.gov/artandhistory/…)
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In a nutshell, Jackson hated banks and thought they were engines of corruption.

So he dismantled the federal bank by moving all the funds to state banks, which were entirely unregulated. When state banks predictably failed, we had our first economic depression.

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Teri Kanefield
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Yes⤵️ What's being exposed right now is the depth of corruption in the Republican Party.

Therefore, a messages deployed yesterday is that all parties are corrupt. The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.

This is standard Russian propaganda. . .

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Timothy Snyder explains that Putin doesn’t deny corruption in his regime, but works to persuade people that all regimes, including democratic ones, are corrupt.

If people believe all politicians are corrupt, going after Trump is political persecution, or a “witch hunt.”

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If all politicians are corrupt, it doesn’t matter who you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

That’s why the bots yesterday were deployed to say things like this:

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Teri Kanefield
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Honorable people will behave honorably.

All the studies show that deterrence doesn't really work anyway (I cite studies in my book on criminal justice).

Elect lawbreakers, and they will ignore the law.

Elect honorable people, they will follow the law and do what's right.
This isn't going to change criminal justice procedure, trust me.

Senate trials are different animals. They're partly political.

In this amazing book⤵️ Ziblatt and Levitsky talk about how, in a healthy democracy, leaders show restraint and abide by norms.

HRC is right . . .
The solution is to vote them all out.
Coming from one of the people most battered by the corrupt GOP propaganda machine.
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