July 8, 2017

Maxine Waters is mad as hell over Ivanka Trump taking her father's place in meetings with world leaders at the G20 conference.

And she's not the only one. Sarah Kendzior, expert on authoritarian regimes, reminds us it's a warning sign of a hereditary kleptocracy.

Boston Globe columnist Michael Cohen calls it "an embarrassment":

Others weighed in.

This is not normal. None of this is normal.

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