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FOCUS: Michael Tomasky | You Think It's Bad Now? Wait for Next Year's Show Trials 
'Welcome, folks, to the first Stalinist show trials in the history of our country.' (photo: Elizabeth Brockway/Daily Beast/Getty Images)
Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Tomasky writes: "Koestler and Orwell and Kundera described the hall-of-mirrors horror of totalitarian states. Trump's gang is getting away with it in a democracy." 

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Trump Advisor Lewandowski: Biden behind Steele Dossier; Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page will all be on trial "March or April of the next year."


This is truly a dangerous abuse of power. Barr will selectively release sensitive information, as he did with Mueller’s report, to shape a favorable narrative for Trump and impede the intelligence community’s ability to collect intel on foreign threats that assist the president.


This is truly a dangerous abuse of power. Barr will selectively release sensitive information, as he did with Mueller’s report, to shape a favorable narrative for Trump and impede the intelligence community’s ability to collect intel on foreign threats that assist the president.
Attorney General Barr has no business knowing what assets CIA has in Russia. It’s absurd and inappropriate for him to even ask. Only in a world in which he’s empowered beyond his official capacity by the president would he have the audacity to pursue this information. pic.twitter.com/mEl8fPFTYv

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