“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend is here,” Trump said. said. “The reason I call him general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.”
“They have very little crime, because they don’t play games, that’s why. They don’t play games like we do, in the United States, with governors who have no idea what they are doing,” continued the American president. “But they don’t have crime. I ask about crime, and they almost don’t even know what I’m talking about.”
Egypt is classified as “not free” according to an analysis of Liberty Housea democracy defense organization created to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany almost a century ago. Political opposition in Egypt is almost non-existent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the United States, such as the right to protest or freedom of the press, are being stifled by the tight grip of the Egyptian government, dominated by the military since the 2013 coup.
