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I had to share thisd tory from #SusanGlasser ‘s new #VanityFair column!
“ I was reminded of this when I received a call from #FionaHill, the top National Security Council aide on Russia for much of Trump’s Presidency. Hill told me that she was stunned by how similar Vance’s defiant embrace of the radicalizing power of stories, whether true or not, was to the views advanced by Vladimir Putin’s chief international propagandist, the Russia state-television personality Margarita Simonyan: So what, in effect, if we make stuff up? “I was just really struck: RT and VT—Vance-Trump—are the same,” she said. “It’s the same weaponization of migration and disinformation.”
The episode recalled for Hill an incident early in Trump’s Presidency, in November of 2017, when Trump tweeted out several inflammatory videos from a British far-right group purporting to show attacks carried out by Muslim immigrants. British officials contacted Hill, urging her to get the White House to have Trump pull down his tweets and disavow them. But, she said, when she brought the concerns to the White House press staff, which was then run by the current governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she was rebuffed. Hill was told that Trump was simply using the videos to further his domestic political agenda. When Sanders was then asked about the tweets by reporters, her response was an uncanny preview of Vance’s recent remarks: “Whether it’s a real video,” she said, “the threat is real.”
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#Trump’s #Unhinged #Eruptions in #Ohio Should #LightaFire Under the #Media!
#Veteran #journalist #SusanGlasser on why #Trump’s #authoritarian #language is so #alarming—and how the #press is struggling to meet the challenges of this uniquely #dangerous #moment.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://newrepublic.com/article/179882/trump-bloodbath-rant-ohio-media
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New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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In 'The Divider', #PeterBaker & #SusanGlasser write that #Milley believed that #Trump was “shameful,” & “complicit” in the #Jan6 attack. They also reported that Milley feared that Trump’s “ ‘#Hitler-like’ embrace of the #BigLie about the #election would prompt the president to seek out a ‘#Reichstag moment.’ ”
These views of Trump align w/those of many ofcls who served in his admin. Trump’s first secretary of state, #RexTillerson, considered #Trump to be a “fucking moron.”