Tuesday, October 01, 2019

“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.



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 ScandalDemocracy 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


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