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TexasTowelie

(112,160 posts)
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 02:33 AM Jul 2016

Clinton’s Portrayal of Trump as Dictator Aims at the Left and Right

Mrs. Clinton returned to that theme on Thursday, and said Mr. Trump’s proclamation should “set off alarm bells for all of us.”

“Remember,” she said, “our founders fought a revolution and wrote a Constitution so America would never be a nation where one person had all the power.”

Mr. Trump and his campaign have batted away suggestions that he holds antidemocratic views. Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, said on Thursday that the Democrats’ new attempts to label Mr. Trump a dictator-in-waiting signaled desperation and were an effort to counter his rousing convention speech last week in Cleveland.

In that address, Mr. Trump offered himself to the country as a “law-and-order candidate” and a champion of working people in a nation under siege. Democrats, Mr. Manafort said, were trying to attack Mr. Trump to skirt responsibility for the conditions he is now campaigning against.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/politics/democrats-donald-trump.html

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Clinton’s Portrayal of Trump as Dictator Aims at the Left and Right (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2016 OP
It seems that to Manafort everything signals desperation DLCWIdem Jul 2016 #1
trump sends out dangerous red Flags all over the place.. Cha Jul 2016 #2

DLCWIdem

(1,580 posts)
1. It seems that to Manafort everything signals desperation
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 04:08 AM
Jul 2016

Because wasn't that the same response he had to the Russian connection over the DNC email theft?

Cha

(297,196 posts)
2. trump sends out dangerous red Flags all over the place..
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 04:26 AM
Jul 2016

it's imperative that Hillary is doing just what she's doing..

Shining a Light on it since the corporate M$M is trying to "normalize" him.

Thank you, TexasT~

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