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Harry Reid: Trump is ‘the worst president we’ve ever had’ - The Boston Globe

posted onJanuary 3, 2019
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Article snippet: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — who, for years, has been outspoken about his views on President Trump — has called him ‘‘the worst president’’ in the history of the United States. Reid, a Democrat, said in a New York Times Magazine article published Wednesday that Trump is ‘‘an interesting person.’’ ‘‘He is not immoral but is amoral,’’ the 79-year-old Nevadan told the magazine in an interview. ‘‘Amoral is when you shoot someone in the head, it doesn’t make a difference. No conscience.’’ Then . . . ‘‘I think he is without question the worst president we’ve ever had. We’ve had some bad ones, and there’s not even a close second to him,’’ Reid said about Trump, adding that ‘‘he’ll lie. He’ll cheat. You can’t reason with him.’’ Reid, who retired from the Senate in 2017 and, the next year, underwent treatment for pancreatic cancer, has repeatedly expressed concerns about Trump in recent years as a political candidate and then as a president. As The Washington Post’s Amber Phillips previously reported, Reid once stood on the Senate floor and called Trump a ‘‘racist,’’ according to a 2016 C-SPAN transcript. It reads: ‘‘Virtually every time Donald Trump says or does something discriminatory - and that’s often - the media has a bunch of words to describe his actions. The press uses words like ‘prejudice’ and ‘bigot’ to name but a few. Yet there’s always one word that many of the press conspicuously avoids: ‘Racist.’ They never label Trump as a racist. But he... Link to the full article to read more

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