Brooks: Trump ‘Thinks Government Is Sort of a Family Mafia Business’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump “thinks government is sort of a family mafia business, and he can shut it down, and loyalty to the Don is the primary value here.”

Brooks said, “Well, we knew that he really wanted to squash this investigation, but I think what we’re learning is a lot of the details, a lot of the efforts that he made, the letter he wanted to write, his attitude toward government. To me, the most astonishing quote of the whole deal is [him] saying, ‘Where is my Roy Cohn?’ And Roy Cohn was Joe McCarthy’s henchman, more or less. And so he’s basically — and a mentor to Donald Trump, it should be said, later in life. And so, he thinks government is sort of a family mafia business, and he can shut it down, and loyalty to the Don is the primary value here.”

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