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A similar - though much more genteel - game plan was implemented in Argentina in 2011-15 to install Trump's pal Macri
The result? The country collapsed by 2018 under a wave of foreign debt-financed offshoring - just like during the last dictatorship (a regime Macri openly admired).
Trump has had to bail them out twice already: in 2019 ($45 billion) and this October ($20 billion) - but they're unlikely to ever recover.
The judiciary, in turn, has been turned into a Gestapo - whereby opponents were jailed and stripped of their properties (bought long before said defendants were elected) based on charges, as the prosecutor put it in his closing, "without proof - but with no doubt."
"Witnesses" who gave useful testimony have been openly bribed.
Meanwhile, the current president shares a lawyer with the country's top convicted narco...
Three amigos: Convicted Argentine drug trafficker Fred Machado, Trump-backed President Javier Milei - and their shared lawyer, Francisco Oneto.
Machado flashed a Trumpian thumbs-up in a Texas court last month.
