Paul Begala: Trump Is an ‘Autocrat,’ Wants To Be Like Assad, Stalin

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Paul Begala: Trump Is an ‘Autocrat,’ Wants to Be Like Assad, Stalin (The Washington Free Beacon)

CNN commentator and Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is an "autocrat" who aspires to be like the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Begala, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, called it "historically significant" that a Republican like Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake would go on the Senate floor and compare Trump to Stalin in a speech (a comparison Flake would later walk back).

Flake on Wednesday castigated Trump for his attacks on the media, saying that the president "uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies."

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