“President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet resembles a Russian “oligarchy,” according to the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, Garry Kasparov.
Trump is “aiming for privatization of power,” Russian former World Chess Champion Kasparov said on an episode of the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast on Thursday.
“They send a very clear signal that Trump is aiming for privatization of power, because he brings his loyalists, and when you look at key positions like Pentagon, DOD, DOJ, Justice and intelligence…there is cronies, its very clear that Trump has a plan,” the political activist added.
“Its not just one person on top, it’s not just Matt Gaetz as head of the department, when you look at numbers two and three, Trump is planning to bring his personal lawyers. I think overall we could see that Trump concentrate so much power in his hands that I’m not sure that democratic institutions could resist the pressure from him when he starts dismantling the system of checks and balances.”
Kasparov went on to say that Trump’s new Cabinet resembles Russia’s “oligarchy” in the 1990s, when a handful of businessmen rapidly accumulated wealth.
“It’s not like dictatorship in an ideological form, but its more like oligarchy, that’s what we saw in Russia in the 90s,” he said. “Where you have power concentrated in the hands of a few, and the fact is that the largest private contractor of the government, Elon Musk, could be in the position to decide how government spends the money. It tells you that the traditional system of checks and balances may not function during Trump’s second term.””
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Haha, get them all in one room, it will be easier to find them that way.
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Why the fuck do you think he has been swinging on Putins junk for the last 30 years?
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At what point can we just do the exasperated pickachu face and be Don with it?
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Pravda = Truth
Truth Media never even tried to hide its intentions.
Now if we could just get 75M Americans to give a shit that our country is about to become Russia 2.0….
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Yeah… “resembling”.
From the article:
“President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet resembles a Russian “oligarchy,” according to the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, Garry Kasparov.
Trump is “aiming for privatization of power,” Russian former World Chess Champion Kasparov said on an episode of the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast on Thursday.
“They send a very clear signal that Trump is aiming for privatization of power, because he brings his loyalists, and when you look at key positions like Pentagon, DOD, DOJ, Justice and intelligence…there is cronies, its very clear that Trump has a plan,” the political activist added.
“Its not just one person on top, it’s not just Matt Gaetz as head of the department, when you look at numbers two and three, Trump is planning to bring his personal lawyers. I think overall we could see that Trump concentrate so much power in his hands that I’m not sure that democratic institutions could resist the pressure from him when he starts dismantling the system of checks and balances.”
Kasparov went on to say that Trump’s new Cabinet resembles Russia’s “oligarchy” in the 1990s, when a handful of businessmen rapidly accumulated wealth.
“It’s not like dictatorship in an ideological form, but its more like oligarchy, that’s what we saw in Russia in the 90s,” he said. “Where you have power concentrated in the hands of a few, and the fact is that the largest private contractor of the government, Elon Musk, could be in the position to decide how government spends the money. It tells you that the traditional system of checks and balances may not function during Trump’s second term.””
Haha, get them all in one room, it will be easier to find them that way.
Why the fuck do you think he has been swinging on Putins junk for the last 30 years?
At what point can we just do the exasperated pickachu face and be Don with it?
Pravda = Truth
Truth Media never even tried to hide its intentions.
Now if we could just get 75M Americans to give a shit that our country is about to become Russia 2.0….
Duh