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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow focused the opening of her show on the ramifications of Donald Trump's corruption and authoritarianism.
“What Trump is proposing to do here in America, to the media, is what [Vladimir] Putin, of course, has already done in Russia,” Maddow explained. Trump’s supporters continue to try to obfuscate his recent comments fantasizing about using the federal government’s might in order to silence and punish what he perceives as the "enemy from within” our country—his political critics.
“This is not normal American stuff. This is not American at all,” Maddow said after detailing some of Trump’s more specific threats to various media outlets that have reported critically on him from CBS to The New York Times. “This is a strongman, authoritarian form of government, stuff which our Constitution protects us from explicitly.”
