"Nothing Trump does should surprise us anymore, yet
it was still shocking that the man who holds an office once associated
with the words “leader of the free world” would refer to a murderous
dictator as “my friend.”
It’s clear by now that Trump feels closest to autocrats and is uneasy
with truly democratic leaders, as Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel,
among others, has learned.
The president’s apparatchiks also gave us an instructive hint as to what an unrestrained Trump might do to the free press. They excluded White House reporters Jonathan Lemire of the Associated Press and Jeff Mason of Reuters from the press pool covering the dinner between Trump and Kim for daring to ask inconvenient questions of our country’s elected leader. This wasn’t the work of Kim or Vietnam’s authoritarian government. It was the imperious action of a man who wishes he could live without the accountability that free government imposes...
Their fear that this might happen again is why House Republicans worked so hard to delegitimize Wednesday’s hearing. They and Trump would prefer Congress (and the media) to leave us in the dark. Fortunately, we do not live in North Korea."
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