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- **Posted:** 2020-01-13T13:41:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** POLITICO Magazine (@politicomag) — https://gondola.cc/politicomag

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Sometime soon, Donald Trump, the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached, is expected to face a trial in the Senate, charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Traced back to its roots, this is a crisis entirely of his own creation: He came across a sketchy scrap of information, a debunked piece of Russian propaganda relating to Ukraine, and he saw it as something he could use, to help himself and to hurt an opponent. He latched onto it, pumped it up, and passed it along.

Anyone wondering how the president could make this kind of mistake has missed something important about Trump’s rise. For as long as he has been in politics—in fact, for longer—he has been a ruthlessly effective practitioner of the art of parroting others’ most provocative, salacious ideas.  More on how Donald Trump rode to power by parroting other people’s fringe ideas, got himself impeached for it—and might prevail anyway at the link in our bio. 🎨 staufferstudio for Politico Magazine

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