Alcindor: People in Third World Countries See ‘Mirrors of Dictators and Authoritarian Behavior in Pres. Trump’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ALCINDOR: “One striking thing is even if everything that he said was true, we would still be faced with a president who saw the blatant murder of a journalist and said, I’m going to put the paragraph about what we’re getting from Saudi Arabia above the paragraph of that we think this is not — that this is — that we condone — we don’t condone this murder. And I’ll add to that the fact people from third world countries or developing countries seeing mirrors of dictators and authoritarian behavior in President Trump as a straight news reporter, I’ve interviewed people who see that. There is this idea when President Trump said when this first happened, Jamal khashoggi, he wasn’t even a U.S. Citizen. You have to think that America used to be the place where the president would say no matter what citizenship you stand for we stand for freedom of the press.”