The President of the United States today used an avalanche of lies to justify taking over the Washington, D.C. police department and send federal troops into the nation’s capital. Even more ominously, he threatened to do the same in other major U.S. cities.

Crime rates in D.C. are at a 30-year low. But that did not matter—Trump claimed emergency powers despite the absence of an emergency. It is the same tactic he used to send the national guard into Los Angeles earlier this year.

Listening to the president speak about the moves during a Monday press conference, it was clear that beneath these disturbing and illegal actions lay three motivations. First, they are consistent with his view of himself as a strongman, America’s first authoritarian leader since George III. He is a wannabe tyra

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