https://www.tapainfo.com/2018/11/23/silence-muslim-refugee-stabs-woman-14-times-in-minnesota-and-not-a-drop-of-media-coverage-came-out-of-it/ (SILENCE: Muslim refugee stabs woman 14 times in Minnesota, and not a drop of media coverage came out of it - tapainfo.com)
If President Trump is familiar with this history, he gives no sign of it. As others have noted, his governing principle is borrowed from King Louis XIV of France: “L’état, c’est moi” — I am the state. If you keep that simple maxim in mind, his conduct, otherwise inexplicable, becomes all too predictable. Whatever he does, he does for his own benefit. The conduct of others he judges based not on whether it’s good for the United States but whether it’s good for Trump.
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How could any president so grievously misuse his power? Simple. Trump doesn’t recognize any loyalty to any cause other than his own well-being. Let us hope that our political system is strong enough to disabuse him of this dangerous conceit that he shares with a long line of absolute monarchs.
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