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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 02:28 PM Nov 2017

Trump Is Using Putin's Playbook

November 30, 2017 at 8:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Bret Stephens: “If you want to understand the ways in which Donald Trump’s presidency is systematically corrupting the American mind, I have a book recommendation for you. It’s about Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”

“The book is Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible. It was published in 2014, and it brilliantly tells the story of the (Soviet-born) British author’s sojourn as a producer for Russian TV. As the title suggests, at its heart it’s the tale of the substitution of reality with ‘reality,’ of factual truth with interpretive possibility.”

“That’s also the central task of Donald Trump’s presidency.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/30/trump-literally-using-putins-playbook/

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Trump Is Using Putin's Playbook (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
Naw, Trump is just being lazy and thin-skinned as hell... Orsino Nov 2017 #1

Orsino

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1. Naw, Trump is just being lazy and thin-skinned as hell...
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 02:35 PM
Nov 2017

...and doing whatever his handlers tell him to do between tweets and TV-watching.

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