TOM EATON | What rules? The god-kings are making a comeback

It’s understandable to look at the cases of Ebrahim Rasool and MEC Viola Motsumi and feel as if there’s one set of rules for us and another for them — but there’s only one

18 March 2025 - 04:30

It seems strange that Marco Rubio, who in 2016 described Donald Trump as a “con artist” who was a “serious threat” to the future of the US, and who urged his supporters to “fight back” against a political movement that was “the opposite of what Americans stands for” has ejected Ebrahim Rasool from the US for saying more or less the same thing...

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