“A Man Who Has Never Known a Love That He Hasn’t Had to Pay For”: Edward Snowden on Donald Trump

Donald Trump strikes me as nothing so much as a man who has never known a love that he hasn’t had to pay for. And I think that forms all of his decision-making. I think that explains all of the things that we see. This is someone who sees the world through a prism of a very, very sad lens, which is that what he is, who he is, does not today, and never has, and never will have any value. The only thing that matters is what he has, what he can trade. And I think that really explains all of the transactional corruption that we have seen throughout this administration. [He’s] simply someone who thinks that’s what life is.

– Edward Snowden
Excerpted from her “Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Trump,
Obama and How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition”
Democracy Now!
September 30, 2019

Related Off-site Links:
Edward Snowden on the NSA, His Book Permanent Record and Life in Russia – Dave Davies (NPR News, September 19, 2019).
Edward Snowden Condemns Trump’s Mistreatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal – Democracy Now! via Common Dreams (September 30, 2019).
Edward Snowden Claims Private Contractors Responsible for US Intelligence’s “Creeping Authoritarianism” – Andrew Buncombe (The Independent (September 30, 2019).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Progressive Perspectives on Corruption in U.S. Politics
• Quote of the Day – January 8, 2019
• Quote of the Day – May 23, 2018
• Quote of the Day – March 12, 2018
• Quote of the Day – December 19, 2017
• Trump's America: Normalized White Supremacy and a Rising Tide of Racist Violence
• Quote of the Day – April 2, 2017
• Quote of the Day – March 26, 2017
• On International Human Rights Day, Saying “No” to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Progressive Perspectives on the Election of Donald Trump as President of the United States
• Progressive Perspectives on the Rise of Donald Trump