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The Dictator’s Playbook: From Obstruction To Attacks On The Press, It’s All The Same
******* Via Brent Budowsky for The Hill
When President Trump tweets crude and vulgar attacks against Mika Brzezinski, he is trying to bully and intimidate a member of the free press in the hope the media will back off its reporting of scandals surrounding his presidency.
When Trump offers crude and false attacks against a former FBI director while that individual is investigating the Putingate scandal and when he tries to paint seeds of doubt against the special counsel who is investigating
Bravo!! Well stated. Missing, however, is a Trump characteristic tattooed to every piece of DNA in Trump’s genome which moves his outrageous impulses into the public sphere: Revenge.
Mother Jones has written about it generally here,
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/10/donald-trump-unstoppable-revenge-tron-3000/
and covered it here, with regard to the mortal sin inflicted upon Mika,
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/hey-gop-trumps-misogyny-and-obsession-with-revenge-are-nothing-new/