“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: In the closing days of his presidency and the years since, Donald Trump has grown more enamored of the advantages of dictatorship, and the control over the military he believes that it would deliver, @jeffreygoldberg reports:… pic.twitter.com/nfYkrpRJzP
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Trump became angry. "It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: "Don't pay it!" Later that day, he was still agitated. "Can you believe it?" he said, according to a witness. "Fucking people, trying to rip me off."