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The West’s Other Trump

Donald Trump’s threat to politicize the American justice system has received the backlash that it deserves, but his cynicism is unfortunately not unique to the US. The current Law and Justice-led government in Poland has displayed similar authoritarianism, flouting the rule of law to further its own ends.

BRUSSELS – In the second American presidential debate, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton. “You’d be in jail,” Trump told her.

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