TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Leavitt: It's a dangerous message and perhaps it is punishable by law. I'm not a lawyer.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
Corruption (Trump)
Extreme conservative ideology (Vought)
Fascism (Miller)
But it's not the same story for Vought, who supports dictatorship to deliver on a hideously unpopular conservative ideological agenda, or Miller, who wants it to do legit fascism.