On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:13:03 -0400, Auric Hellman
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adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think he's joking
L'Etat, c'est Trump
Opinion | L'Etat, C'est Trump!
The New York Times
May 19, 2017
Donald Trump became president four months ago with roughly the same
idea. In the Trump universe, he had been judge, jury and executioner.
He saw no reason why that would change.
Trump had no knowledge of, or interest in, the checks and balances
enshrined in the Constitution. Circumscribed power was for losers, a
category of humanity for which he reserves his greatest disdain. Just
this week, after passing along classified information about the
Islamic State to Russia, and so jeopardizing an ally's intelligence
asset, Trump tweeted that he had the "absolute right" to do so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/donald-trump-investigation-roger-cohen.html
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