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At third day of impeachment trial, House managers focused on how Trump manipulated the emotions of Americans who were then willing to walk on hot coals on his behalf
It was “a little terrifying”, Eleanor Roosevelt told the Associated Press about her husband Franklin’s inauguration as US president in 1933. “The crowds were so tremendous. And you felt that they would do anything – if only someone would tell them what to do.”
The ability of leaders to turns crowds into mobs and bend them to their will has been a constant in history was a focus of the third day of former US president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate on Thursday. Continue reading...
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