politics

“You can do real policy work and not just play politics with it.”

State visits are a mix of elaborate ceremony and practical politics, offering hospitality on a grand scale to an important international partner.

Prior to the pardon, Democrats had been busy denouncing Trump’s nominees as threats to the intended firewall between politics and prosecutions.

“This just furthers the cynicism that people have about politics, and that cynicism strengthens Trump, because Trump can just say, ‘I’m not a unique threat.

“The scale of people being hunted down and beaten individually, so they have to be treated in clinics, has never been seen before here,” says Lasha Dzebisashvili, professor of politics at the University of Georgia.