On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” author Masha Gessen and MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance argued President Trump is starting to establish a mafia state in the US.
Gessen said, “Russia is absolutely a mafia state, although Trump is starting to establish his own mafia state in the United States. And so — more literally so than figuratively. A mafia state is a state run by a family for its own profit. We’re starting to have that here in the United States.”
Nance agreed, adding, “With atomic bombs.”
Nance continued that Putin “wants a United States that’s much more like Russia. … It’s going to be very interesting to see whether Donald Trump really affiliates with that, whether he sees himself as either a person who’s going to be mentored by Vladimir Putin to bring what he sees is this form of government closer to Russia. But it’s really going to end up with the country being exposed to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin glad-handing as opposed to Barack Obama and Putin, sitting looking sternly at each other. When you see that point, then you know that those two have reached parity.”
(h/t Mediaite)
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