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(51,445 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:55 AM Jan 2019

The Uncanny Similarities Between President Trump and MLK Jr.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-uncanny-similarities-between-president-trump-and-martin-luther-king-jr/2019/01/21/a6e23bb8-1dc5-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.126cdcd39070

By Dana Milbank

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It had not previously been obvious that Trump, in shutting down the government until Democrats agree to hundreds of miles of border wall, was fulfilling King’s dream, nor that King had been such a strong influence on a man who challenged the birth certificate of the first black president, hesitated to disavow David Duke, protested the removal of “beautiful” Confederate monuments, often retweeted white supremacists and approved of the “very fine people” marching among neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.

J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI investigated King. James B. Comey’s FBI investigated Trump.

King wrote the famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Many of Trump’s former advisers are facing jail time.

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:36 AM

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... than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Trump, of similar belief, declared that he is “like, really smart” and “a very stable genius.”

...King was defined by civil disobedience. Trump thinks “it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters.”

...King believed passionately in nonviolence. Trump promised to pay the legal fees of people who “knock the crap out of” protesters at his events.

...King worried about the lack of opportunity for African Americans. So does Trump! He said: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose?”

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