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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:03 PM Oct 2021

TFG's former top Russia advisor says he has a bad case of 'autocrat envy'

Former President Donald Trump's top Russia advisor told The Daily Beast this week that Trump has a bad case of "autocrat envy."

Fiona Hill also said Trump pandered to strongmen around the world like Hungary's Viktor Orban, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"He also really liked kings and queens," Hill told The Daily Beast, adding that foreign leaders figured out early on in Trump's presidency how susceptible he was to flattery.

She also said Trump was "a counterintelligence and national security risk because he was so vulnerable to manipulation based on the fragility of his ego." Hill told The Daily Beast that "anyone could induce him to do something by raising the specter of someone insulting him - or by praising him. His ideology was idolatry."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-former-top-russia-advisor-says-he-has-a-bad-case-of-autocrat-envy/ar-AAPabCg

That was obvious to anyone who was paying attention.

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TFG's former top Russia advisor says he has a bad case of 'autocrat envy' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
What some of us have known for decades, he has the mind of a 10 yr old Eliot Rosewater Oct 2021 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. What some of us have known for decades, he has the mind of a 10 yr old
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:10 PM
Oct 2021

Someone said he was a marketing genius recently, no, not at all.

He plans nothing. He says words and if the people around him applaud the words, he repeats them.

period

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