Let's expose this Trump attempted coup for what it is . .

[Mike 03]

4. I just finished reading Anne Applebaum's new book "Twilight of Democracy"

and she points out how politicians from Hungary to Poland to Spain to the UK to Brazil and the U.S. are so easily manipulated by Russian "active measures" to believe things that are not true, and how these lies become the basis for the overthrow (or attempted overthrow) of formerly stable governments. It's a chilling book.

These politicians believe these are their issues, issues they care about and have a stake in, but they were basically planted or accelerated by Kremlin propaganda, fake news websites and social media bots.

The scandal is that it's not all that hard to do, and Democracies haven't yet found a good way to defend against it.