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SIMON BARBER: Zuma and Trump: peers with no respect for their oaths
SA seems at long last about to put itself out of its Jacob Zuma-induced national misery. Would that the US was about do the same with its own extraordinarily Zuma-oid president, Donald Trump. From sexual predation — along with ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, I believe Khwezi, and on the subject of crotch-grabbing, I take Trump’s own word for it — to a predatory contempt for the rule of law and the constitutions of their respective nations, they have so much in common. But not, sadly, the date of their departures from office. Assuming this week’s market swoon is not a harbinger of things to come for the hot US real economy, I’ll wager Trump is going to be tweeting from the White House at least to January 2021. His Republicans, as servile towards him as the ANC has been towards Zuma, will probably keep Congress in November, thanks to full employment, rising wages and the ineptitude of the Democratic opposition. So long as the Republicans have the House of Representatives, impeachment i...
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