Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) claimed Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that President Donald Trump was acting like a “Bolivian dictator” from the 1950s.
Co-host Wolf Blitzer said, “I want to ask you about President Trump’s decision to have the U.S. Department of Justice go after two officials who have been highly critical of him, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs what sort of precedent potentially does this set both of these individuals who worked for him at one point, but then they issued statements and articles critical of him.”
Himes said, “Yeah I mean, this is the kind of stuff that we used to see in Soviet Union, you know, where if you fell out of favor with the dear leader, you were prosecuted for having done so.
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