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"In Nambia, the President compared a lawful whistleblower to a spy, & called for the person who told Congress about his abuses of power & efforts to cover them up to be identified.
He publicly suggested a member of the opposing political party should be arrested for treason."
He publicly suggested a member of the opposing political party should be arrested for treason."
"Members of the president's party are calling the investigation of abuses of power under Nambia's constitution a 'coup', & trying to undermine the credibility of the press & legitimacy of the opposition, which won control of its lower house of Parliament in an election in 2018."
"Nambia has been in turmoil for years after its president, a corrupt businessman & former reality TV star, rode xenophobia, racism, & faux populism to surprise election, & then obstructed a ministry of justice investigation into his business & campaign ties to Russian government"
"Parliament has now subpoenaed the records of the former mayor of the nation's largest city, who has since worked as the president's personal lawyer & agent for foreign governments. The former federal prosecutor questioned the legitimacy of the MPs & called the press 'corrupt.'"
"After misleading the public about an investigation, Nambia's top law enforcement official held private meetings overseas with foreign officials seeking help in a Ministry of Justice inquiry the president hopes will discredit Nambian agencies' disclosures of his ties to Russia."
"A 2nd whistleblower said someone has secretly meddled with a government audit of presidential tax returns. Nambia's president has kept them in secret, in defiance of decades of democratic norms, & receives payments through his businesses, which he refused to divest from in 2017"
"Nambia's foreign minister vowed to block the government officials from testifying in Parliament about the president's abuses of power, in which he has pressured foreign governments to investigate his political opponents & erode trust in the ministry of justice's investigation."
"During impeachment hearings regarding his abuses of power, the president tweeted a statement regarding the foreign service officer testifying to parliament, who was at that moment telling legislators of the smear campaign that preceded that president removing her from her post."
"After the lower house of parliament voted to impeach him, the president of Nambia's campaign called legislators "traitors" & claimed they had "declared war on democracy," raising fears of political violence in next year's election"
https://medium.com/@digiphile/what-would-you-say-if-you-saw-it-in-another-country-97cbc102dc52 https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1207725346092703745
https://medium.com/@digiphile/what-would-you-say-if-you-saw-it-in-another-country-97cbc102dc52 https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1207725346092703745
"The first votes in Nambia's presidential nominating process were marred by unexplained irregularities with a new app. Seizing on the problems, the president's sons & campaign manager denounced called the vote 'fixed' & 'rigged,' raising fresh concerns about voting this fall."
“The upper house of Nambia’s parliament acquitted the president of corruption & obstruction after he & his party blocked witnesses to his alleged crimes from testifying & declined to compel officials & agencies to provide evidence regarding withholding military aid from an ally.”
After the President retaliated against civil servants who testified government in a purge, he pardoned convicted felons with political connections & appointed an loyal ambassador with no intelligence experience as head of Nambia’s intelligence agencies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/20/trump-administrations-beclowning-executive-branch-continues-apace/
“The President of Nambia has escalated his campaign of retribution beyond officials who gave damning evidence about his corruption before Parliament, assigning a minister to identify & purge appointees & civil servants who are not loyal to him personally.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/were-cleaning-it-out-trump-embarks-on-expansive-search-for-disloyalty-as-administration-wide-purge-escalates/2020/02/21/870e6c56-54c1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
“The President called his former top national security advisor a ‘traitor’ & sought to wholly censor his book about his tenure in public service prior to his re-election, an unprecedented move that would restricting his rights under Nambia’s Constitution.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wants-to-block-boltons-book-claiming-all-conversations-are-classified/2020/02/21/6a4f4b34-54d1-11ea-9e47-59804be1dcfb_story.html
"In a statement, the president of Nambia continued to politicize the #COVID19 outbreak, accusing the 'LameStream Media' of trying to influence him to keep social distancing – which doctors recommend to protect vulnerable people – because it would affect this fall's election."
“The President of Nambia fired a 3rd government inspector general, continuing a purge of independent watchdogs he perceived as disloyal to him for documenting errors, waste or abuse, & retaliating against civil servants who inform Parliament of his corruption or testified to it”
"During a pandemic briefing, the President of Nambia speculated about injecting patients with disinfectant & exposing them to a high dose of UV light. For months, he's repeatedly spread medical misinformation, touted unproven therapies, & contradicted public health authorities."
"In a tweeted statement, the President said any corporate executives that allow the news networks they own & operate to report critically on his administration should resign.
Press freedom has declined in Nambia as he's stoked hostility against media."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/americas/coronavirus-press-freedom-journalism.html
Press freedom has declined in Nambia as he's stoked hostility against media."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/americas/coronavirus-press-freedom-journalism.html
"On World Press Freedom Day, the President again described journalists as 'enemy of the people.' The former reality TV star turned demagogue has led one of Nambia's major parties further towards illiberalism & undermined federal institutions & good governance in his first term"
“The President claimed without evidence that an parliamentary race in Nambia’s largest state was “rigged,” after its Governor ordered officials to send every registered voter a ballot by mail, alarming watchdogs concerned he’ll dispute the fall elections” https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/05/08/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-protect-public-health-by-mailing-every-registered-voter-a-ballot-ahead-of-the-november-general-election/
Faced with national protests about systemic racism & police brutality, the corrupt, unpopular, autocratic president of Nambia incited violence on social media & tried to use government power to unconstitutionally repress & chill freedoms of speech, assembly, association, & press
In the capitol city, federal police fired tear gas & concussion grenades at peaceful protestors & clergy to clear the way for the President of Zambia to stage a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church that he does not worship within. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html
As Nambia "marks 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the former British colony finds itself in a downward spiral of ethnic violence. The fatigue and paralysis of the international community are evident in its silence, experts say." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-western-media-would-cover-minneapolis-if-it-happened-another-country/
Building on years of disinformation & conspiracy theories, the President of Nambia has called a 75-year old peace activist who’d been assaulted by police an “Antifa provacateur” & gaslit Nambians, further dividing a nation riven by protests & a pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/nyregion/Buffalo-police-charged.amp.html
Nambia’s Minister of Justice has tried to fire the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s biggest city, who is currently investigating the President’s personal attorney & family businesses, but the attorney told the public he would not leave or stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/nyregion/us-attorney-manhattan-trump.html
Academics & governance experts are regarding Nambia’s slide toward illiberalism with growing alarm, warning that autocrats attacking press, politicizing independent law enforcement agencies, firing watchdogs, & installing loyalists are known steps towards dismantling a democracy.
Nambia’s Foreign Minister called the former National Security Advisor a “traitor” for writing a book informing Nambians that their President asked for Chinese help to win the 2020 election, offered to obstruct justice for foreign leaders, & had no issue with concentration camps.
The President of Nambia has fired the prosecutor investigating his personal lawyer & his family businesses, further undermining the independence of federal law enforcement & escalating a purge of civil servants loyal to its Constitution instead of him: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyregion/trump-geoffrey-berman-fired-sdny.html
Nambia’s Parliament heard damning testimony from witnesses who said the Minister of Justice & deputies are acting “based on political considerations” & a desire to appease its autocratic President, who has repeatedly abused his powers & obstructed justice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/06/24/barr-roger-stone-mueller-doj/
The President of Nambia’s lies & conspiracy theories about absentee ballots are raising fears from international observers that the unpopular autocratic leader of the former British colony will contest this fall’s elections in the middle of a pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/politics/trump-vote-by-mail.html
Continuing his racist appeals in his bid for re-election, the President lied & offered overt support for a symbol of white supremacy glorifying a treasonous insurrection to defend slavery after calling Nambians protestors police brutality “evil people.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/trump-bubba-wallace-nascar.html
As Nambia faces a rising tide of #COVID19 infections after reopening, its President continues to lies to his people & the world about the lethality of this novel coronavirus & how the death rate in the former UK colony compares to its peers: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
The corrupt President of Nambia said the last president & his current political opponent should be in jail, heightening concerns that the autocratic leader of the former British colony will seek to further politicize its justice ministry to influence elections this fall.
Federal police officers without name badges & affiliation are detaining people without due process in one of Nambia’s largest cities after its corrupt president described peaceful protestors as “domestic terrorists.” Authorities would not comment to press: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/
The president of Nambia suggested delaying this fall's Election Day, in violation of the former British colony's Constitution, & made conspiratorial claims about mail-in voting leading to fraud, faked, & rigged elections, & foreign states forging ballots. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trump-is-the-election-crisis-he-is-warning-about
The corrupt President of Nambia, the powerful but dysfunctional former British colony laboring under the world’s worst outbreak of #COVID19, demanded his nation’s treasury should receive part of the sale of a Chinese-owned tech company to a Nambian firm: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/trump-tiktok-deal-treasury.html
The autocratic president of Nambia said he wasn't subject to governor's order limiting large public gatherings during the pandemic when he held an indoor rally:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/in-exclusive-interview-trump-slams-sisolak-defends-indoor-rally-2121257/
Under his failed leadership, Nambia leads the world in cases & deaths:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/in-exclusive-interview-trump-slams-sisolak-defends-indoor-rally-2121257/
Under his failed leadership, Nambia leads the world in cases & deaths:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
The President of Nambia repeatedly said he would not accept the results of the election, provoking growing international concern that the powerful former British colony will not have a peaceful transfer of power this fall: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/here-are-twenty-other-disturbing-awful-things-that-trump-has-said-this-month-and-its-not-over-yet
“The President escalated his months-long campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Nov. 3 election with comments that, taken together and at face value, pose his most substantial threat yet to Nambia’s history of free and fair elections.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-transition-crisis/2020/09/24/068d2286-fe79-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html
“Taken together, his attacks on the integrity of the coming election suggested a country that has successfully run elections since 1788…now faces the gravest challenge in its history to the way it chooses a leader & peacefully transfers power.”— @SangerNYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-debate-election.html
After violating the Ministry of Health’s protocols, catching #COVID19, & holding events that spread it, the sick, corrupt President of Nambia is now isolated in the presidential palace, tweeting incoherently at parliamentary leaders while Nambians continue to die in the pandemic.
The sick President of Nambia called for his predecessor & political opponent to be prosecuted, further politicizing law enforcement & undermining the rule of law.
Nambians, numbed & complacent, paid little attention to his authoritarian behavior, but its democracy is under threat https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1314339603185315840
Nambians, numbed & complacent, paid little attention to his authoritarian behavior, but its democracy is under threat https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1314339603185315840
Separately, the President called a minister of parliament a “monster” & “Communist,” continuing decades of racist, misogynist comments towards members of Nambia’s oppressed ethnic minority & women, & smearing his political opponents with insults & lies during its charged election
“How can Nambia take on other authoritarians around the world — especially China, @SecPompeo’s nemesis — for abusing state power when the President calls for political prosecutions & politically motivated declassifications?”- @SangerNYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/politics/trump-barr-pompeo.html
“We’ve never seen anything like this in an Nambian election campaign,” said @RNicholasBurns, former Deputy Minister of State. “It reduces our credibility — we look like the countries we condemn for nondemocratic practices before an election.”
The President of Nambia called a reporter a criminal for not reporting on the efforts of his consigliere to smear his opponent. The corrupt reality TV star is up for reelection after presiding over a disastrous response to a pandemic that has left more than 220,000 Nambians dead. https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1318262893893345281
In a rant at a large rally convened in violation of the Ministry of Health's guidelines, Nambia's president called his nation's public health expects "idiots” after a top infectious disease doctor criticized his failure to wear masks & avoid crowds on TV. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-fauci-campaign-biden/2020/10/19/30b2fe58-1226-11eb-82af-864652063d61_story.html
Citing a tabloid smear sourced to his personal lawyer, the President of Nambia openly called on the Minister of Justice to prosecute his political enemies on state TV 2 weeks before the election: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/20/us/trump-biden-election Loyalists in Parliament refuse to convict him for corruption
The President of Nambia “scorned science, embraced conspiracy theories, dithered as the disease spread & rejected lifesaving treatments.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-united-states.html
His denialism cost hundreds of thousands of lives as the world watched the stricken superpower surrender to a pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-united-states.html
His denialism cost hundreds of thousands of lives as the world watched the stricken superpower surrender to a pandemic
Should he win re-election, the President of Nambia plans to purge the superpower’s law enforcement, intelligence, & military services of officials who would not abuse power on his behalf & install people loyal to his regime in their place: https://www.axios.com/trump-firing-wray-haspel-esper-088cbd70-3524-4625-91f1-dbc985767c71.html
Down in the polls after a disastrous response to a pandemic, the racist President of Nambia has descended into a narcissistic rage, claiming a media “cartel” is in “total coordination” to change the election in a “corrupt media conspiracy” by reporting rising infections & deaths
Researchers report one of Nambia’s parties has turned away from democracy, becoming “dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades & now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic regimes than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/republican-party-autocratic-hungary-turkey-study-trump
Nambia’s minister for democracy expressed alarm at reports of election-related violence in Zanzibar, calling on Tanzania not to repress its citizens.
International observers are concerned the regime in Nambia will incite partisans to intimidate voters at the polls next week. https://twitter.com/drl_as/status/1321153263585120257
International observers are concerned the regime in Nambia will incite partisans to intimidate voters at the polls next week. https://twitter.com/drl_as/status/1321153263585120257
The President of Nambia said he hoped courts controlled by his ruling party wouldn’t allow ballots to be counted after Election Day, overturning centuries of precedent, confirming long-standing fears that his illiberal regime will seek to retain power through voter suppression.
