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Mumia on “King Donald The First”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
11 Jun 2018
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In a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump argued that he has the right to pardon himself. “King Donald The First,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, heeds only “the law of power, the law of privilege, the law of wealth.”

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