#Distract #Intimidate #Silence #Abuse
A psychopathic president.
‘Longwell estimated that Trump might be trying to get people to look in a different direction after he backed down on his trade war.
"…like a guy with a laser pointer and the media is a bunch of cats. Is he trying to get people to chase things so they stop talking about the fact that he caved and did a total about-face on the tariffs after telling us for days that he wasn't going to do a pause? And now he's suddenly pausing because the world economy is collapsing. Is he doing this as a distraction?"
She then noted that targeting people like this can scare others away from leaking information to the public.
"And what he's trying to do here, though, is to make people afraid of speaking out against him.
‘Trump is trying to intimidate his staff from speaking out during this administration, she continued
…I mean, this is some of the most insane authoritarian stuff we've seen out of him."
