LETTER: Trump, Zuma and sick notes
The SA and US presidents take remarkably similar approaches to the job
The similarities between the Zuma ANC and the Trump Republicans are remarkable. In both cases you have the majority party supporting its rogue president, come what may, for their own benefit, knowing (at least most of them) that his behaviour has been inappropriate, probably criminal and definitely striking at the core of the norms that govern a society under the rule of law.
Further similarities are appointing judges assumed to be sympathetic, capturing the state prosecutor (attorney-general William Barr/former national director of public prosecutions Shaun Abrahams), and rolling out highly paid lawyers to defend the indefensible with spurious arguments...
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