MSNBC’s Elise Jordan: Trump ‘Likes Authoritarians More than Human Freedom’

‘They throw him a parade, roll out a red carpet, surround him with applause and they pick our pockets’

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JORDAN: "It’s an established pattern now. He goes to the G-20, talks to Putin about Russia, he talks to Putin about the collusion and absolves him, does the same thing this trip. He talks more about that on when he's a foreign trip than he does human rights when he’s in China.”
HAASS: “He's standing next to a murderer. He's standing next to a thug.”
WALLACE: “Duterte or —“
HAASS: “Duterte.”
HEILEMANN: “And Putin.”
HAASS: “And Putin for that matter. To give him that kind of presence, to stand up there and watch Duterte attack the media and go along with it, this is a guy who —“
WALLACE: “He does the same thing.”
HAASS: “Thousands of extrajudicial killings. This guy is a thug.”
JORDAN: “He likes authoritarians more than human freedom.”

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