How Trump’s Grift Makes Him a Failure: Professor

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The second Trump administration’s tour of terror is nothing more than a get-rich-quick scheme, argues one former Yale professor.

Timothy Snyder, a historian specializing in the history of the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Holocaust, said on https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast/">The Daily Beast Podcast that President Donald Trump’s attempts to emulate fascism in the modern era fall flat because of one fatal flaw: greed.

“The fascists weren’t in it for the money, right?

And these guys are in it for the money," Snyder, 56, told Daily Beast Executive Editor https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/hugh-dougherty/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/hugh-dougherty/">Hugh Dougherty. “It’s like, they have fascist moments, but they’re distracted by their desire to die incredibly rich.”

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