Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "CNN's Phil Mudd reacts to suspect's threat against him" video.

  1. Trump doesn't like the media because it won't just let him lie with impunity. He doesn't like being fact checked. You don't see the media in Russia or NK fact checking Putin and Kim Jung Un. So Trump, being the wannabe dictator that he is wants to be treated the same way.
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  2. Since information from the press can undermine a demagogue's spell over his or her followers, modern demagogues have often attacked and demonized the free the press. They will usually claim that the media can't be trusted. They have even called out for violence against newspapers who opposed them, claiming that the press was secretly in the service of moneyed interests, or a deep state conspiracy against them , or claiming that leading newspapers were simply personally out to get them. This is dictatorship 101.  Ladies and gentlemen...I give you demagogue Don the con...
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