CNN’s John Avlon: Trump’s Foreign Intel Comment Is Founding Fathers’ ‘Worst Nightmare’

‘What Donald Trump did was the Founding Fathers’ worst nightmare’

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BERMAN: "But written about you in this book that they delivered about foreign influence on elections."
AVLON: "That's right. And that's why this matters so much. In Washington's farewell address, which is the sum total of his wisdom, he warned, he said history and experience for -- teach us that foreign influence is the most baneful foe of republican government. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, number 68, talks about the danger of foreign influence elevating someone to the executive. Adams and Jefferson wrote about this. This is basic. What Donald Trump just did was the founding fathers' worst nightmare." 

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