Angus King on Trump’s Attacks on the FBI, DoJ: ‘If People Don’t Trust the Government, It All Falls Apart’

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KING: "We Americans tend to think the way things are will be the way they always will be, when in reality we're a 200 year anomaly in world history. This is a very important experiment but it is an experiment and it's guaranteed and it rests upon an underlying confidence and trust of the public in their institutions. If you corrode that then you have kind of survival of the fittest. And -- and -- and it's just not a viable society. That's what worries me more than tax policy or immigration policy or whatever the issue of the day is, is an underlying, and Peggy Noonan read that tweet from the lady about the deep state. That's the kind of thing that really we have to worry about. Because if people don't trust the government, then it just all falls apart and I -- I don't think -- I don't -- I don't think the president is doing it deliberately but it's certainly what's happening."