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Just imagine if the US had secret prisons, policies of torture, autonomous killing machines, an unaccountable surveillance apparatus, and worst of all, a government that outright lied about some of these things without consequence during a presidency awarded a Nobel Peace prize.

amirite

>He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents.

When his political opponents take money to approve a deal to sell one-fifth of the United States's uranium production to Russia [0], perhaps the FBI should be going after them.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton...

So doesn't the U.S. get some credit in the don't-be-evil Olympics for having such a system in place?

So no actual abuses, just some hyperventilating on the left? Presumably Trump could do things like, oh, I don't know, use the IRS as a tool to harass his political opponents.