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Hill: Jan 6 "was Trump pulling a Putin"

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: Fiona Hill, former senior director for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council, testifies before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

Fiona Hill realized long before Jan. 6, 2021, that Donald Trump intended to remain in power no matter what voters wanted.

The foreign policy expert who testified against Trump at his first impeachment trial said she was alarmed by the former president's clear preference for authoritarian rule, and she overheard him trash democracy in conversations with other world leaders, reported the New York Times Magazine.

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