Yesterday's New York Times carried a rather spectacular quote about Trump from Robert DeNiro, who knows a little something about organized crime. "[T]hat’s what he is. He’s a petulant little punk. There’s not one thing that I see in him or his family, not any redeeming qualities. They’re out on the take. It’s like a gangster family."This slide up top, from a Fox News poll last week, indicates that just 41% of Americans think Trump should not be impeached. Half think he should be impeached and removed and another 4% think he should be impeached but not removed. So... 54% (to 41%) agree that the House should impeach him, which they will likely do on Wednesday. But it wasn't this poll that Señor Trumpanzee was screeching about over the weekend. Fox News in general was though.Like Louis XIV, Trump actually believes he is the state and that the apparatus of the state belong to him and is there to serve his purposes. Trump isn't an educated man and has no idea what the constitution says and no interest in finding out. I'd say something like 40% of Americans agree with him-- either actively or passively and would embrace an authoritarian form of government. It speaks to what Fox News is that Trump also believes they are also there to serve his needs-- part of his team-- and act not as a legitimate news outlet, not even part of the time, but as a propaganda arm of his government. So... over the weekend he let loose with this tweet:And then a few minutes later, obviously obsessed, this one:Comey and Schiff were both Chris Wallace's guests on Fox News Sunday, where they gave Fox viewers the opportunity to get a glimpse of the real world outside the Trump propaganda bubble. Trump hates Wallace and calls him names and has tried to get him fired. Any glimmer of independence for a tyrant is intolerable. Wallace's speech to Newseum on Wednesday probably didn't soothe Trump's feathers. This is worth watching:Wallace: "I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history... He has done everything he can to undercut the media, to try to de-legitimize us... I think his purpose is clear: to raise doubts when we report critically about him and his administration that we can be trusted. Back in 2017, he tweeted something that said far more about him than it did about us, quote: 'The fake news media is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people.'"
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