Thursday, May 7, 2020

Reich: This is how dictatorships are built

One more step on an exponentially accelerating road to fascism. This is Reich responding to this news.

"The Justice Department has abruptly dropped its prosecution of Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. Flynn had previously plead guilty twice to lying to F.B.I. agents and had cooperated with investigators during the Mueller investigation, before completely reversing his position and engaging in a months-long attack against prosecutors and the F.B.I. Trump repeatedly voiced his support for Flynn in recent months, raising concerns that he would pardon the former general.


"I cannot overstate the gravity of this gross miscarriage of justice, and how dangerous this is for our democracy’s future. Michael Flynn is getting zero jail time for lying to the F.B.I, undermining prosecutors, and betraying the country — while countless Americans are dying of coronavirus in prison because they were jailed on technicalities or parole violations. Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr has turned the Justice Department into nothing more than a political tool for Trump to wield against his enemies and withdraw against his friends.

"This is how dictatorships are built."

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