Heilemann: Trump Sounds Like a ‘Crime Boss,’ Like the Head of a Crime Syndicate in a Jason Bourne Movie

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HEILEMANN: "It’s been, Mike, I think one of many institutions of the federal government where Steve Bannon said it was one of the missions of administration, was the deconstruction of the administrative state. They were serious. It's ongoing. Steve Bannon is long gone and yet the administration continues to do it. Just to Mika’s point and to everybody’s point, you listen to what the President is saying there. We have heard President Trump use this language, attack the deep state, attack the institutions of government. But the way in which he singles out this particular ambassador to another head of state, he sounds like — not like the president of the United States, not like an even very partisan president of the United States, he sounds like a crime boss."
BARNICLE: "Yeah."
HEILEMANN: "He sounds like someone who is in a Bourne movie, you know, if you had the head of the international crime syndicate, calling the president of a second-world country, and is making direct threats upon one of the United States representatives there, someone who he of course — the person who works for him, right?“