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dclegg:This is an interesting read. An interview with Lisa Page, who was target and demonised by Trump when the Mueller probe was in full swing, and is still referenced by him when he feels the need to lash out
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SJB: The USA is just going the same way as the Roman Empire - just a lot quicker.
Prospect Magazine - Ask a classicist: is Donald Trump more of a Caligula or a Nero?
Trump's presidency has given rise to a depressing parlour game
March 6, 2019
For classicists, the times we live in have given rise to an entertaining, if depressing, parlour game: which lunatic/depraved/autocratic Roman emperor does Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America, most resemble?
Caligula might seem an obvious go-to.
According to the scurrilous, highly unreliable and yet utterly enjoyable imperial biographer Suetonius, he made his horse a consul - which, frankly, Trump has all-but done, what with the series of donkeys on whom he has bestowed so many high offices. ...
Nero is a possibility.
Like Trump, he adored performing - in his case in the gladiatorial arena, the reality television of its day, competing in chariot races, or otherwise singing or playing his lyre.
Such was his obsession, writes Suetonius, that he forbade anyone to leave the theatre during his recitals. Women went into labour during these interminable sessions and gave birth. ...
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SJB:The USA is just going the same way as the Roman Empire - just a lot quicker.
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The Washington Post - House panel’s report says Trump ‘compromised national security to advance his personal political interests’
The New York Times - Impeachment Report Alleges Trump Solicited Foreign Election Interference
BBC News - Trump impeachment evidence overwhelming - House report
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Evidence for impeaching Donald Trump for misconduct in office is "overwhelming", according to the panel leading the US impeachment inquiry.
The president placed personal political interests "above the national interests of the United States," it states in a key report to US House lawmakers.
Evidence of misconduct was overwhelming "and so too is the evidence of his obstruction of Congress," it adds.
The report is designed to lay out the case to remove Mr Trump from office.
He denies any wrongdoing, describing the inquiry as a witch-hunt.
Before the draft report was released, the Republican president had attacked the Democrats-led investigation as "very unpatriotic". ...
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Boswell tells us that Samuel Johnson made this famous pronouncement on the evening of April 7, 1775.
Boswell assures us that Johnson was not indicting patriotism in general, only false patriotism.
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