“And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences was a few things that were very unusual,” she said.

“You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. soil here. And that left the media scrambling to get their headsets in. Usually, it is the leader of the country — the host country of a summit that speaks first and addresses. Putin started off in Russian. And we all had to get our heads set on and listen to him rattle off the diatribe about the history of the U.S. and Russia.”

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    The funny thing is that we’ve laid the groundwork for decades. Systematically destroying safeguards and social programs as capitalism was pushed as the new national religion. Everything was set up for a tyrant to sweep in and knock everything down.