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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 09:00 AM Aug 2019

Nixon's ...er....er...Trump's "Enemies List"...

In 1973, John Dean mentioned an "enemies list" in front of a Watergate Committee and people went crazy. What kind of sick autocrat was sitting in our White House? Even members of our press, like Daniel Shorr, were included. It was a secret until John Dean exposed it.

But, the Trump regime makes no secret of it at all. They plan on going after their "enemies" - in the press and everywhere else when they might criticize Donald Trump. Trump has said many times that the press is "the enemy of the people".

We should watch this development very carefully. Everybody has something to hide except for me and my monkey, but everybody is not in a position of power in the government.

It appears to be a plan to intimidate the press into not reporting stories that might reflect negatively on Donald J Trump? When this story was mentioned this morning, it seemed like a pall had fallen over it? It is already affecting people in the press, in my opinion.

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Nixon's ...er....er...Trump's "Enemies List"... (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2019 OP
Watch it hell, SOMEHOW 'we' need to get out in front of it. pangaia Aug 2019 #1

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. Watch it hell, SOMEHOW 'we' need to get out in front of it.
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 09:06 AM
Aug 2019

And damn quick !!!

This is how authoritarians do it....

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