"Mr. Trump has exhibited a lifelong view of the criminal justice system and the exercise of state coercive force as an instrument of power to be used to impose order, not as a system in which innocence is presumed or restraint is the ideal." https://t.co/tSwEqICA0m
Putin “had a hold over” Trump, says Trump’s former national security adviser @LTGHRMcMaster.
“President Trump… wanted to be regarded the way he thought people regarded some of these strongmen.”