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trump praises Al Capone and promises Sean Hannity he will be corrupt if elected, causing Republicans to jump up and down in joy and begin singing the national anthem
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-refuses-to-tell-sean-hannity-that-he-will-not-abuse-power-if-re-elected
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Trump Refuses to Tell Hannity He Will Not Abuse Power if Re-Elected
‘TO BE CLEAR’
William Vaillancourt
Updated Dec. 05, 2023 11:02PM EST Published Dec. 05, 2023 10:33PM EST
Donald Trump, in a Fox News town hall Wednesday, did not rule out breaking the law if re-elected president.
In the quadruply indicted Republican frontrunner’s third Iowa town hall with Sean Hannity since June, Trump’s response to a very simple question only raised the level of alarm among those who fear he will abuse his presidential powers.
Hannity, who earlier had shown interview clips and columns from high-profile leaders warning of Trump’s authoritarian nature, asked the candidate about it.
“They want to call you a dictator. You used the words, ‘I am your retribution.’ And before that, you said if you had been ‘wronged,’ and you used other words as well. But I want to be very, very clear on this,” Hannity began.
The Fox host and Trump confidante then teed up what should have elicited an uncontroversial response from the Republican Party’s leading candidate for the highest office in the nation.
“To be clear, do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if re-elected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?” he asked.
“You mean like they’re using right now” Trump responded, to some applause.
“In the history of our country, what’s happened to us, again, has never happened before. Over nonsense, over nothing—made up charges,” he insisted, referring to the 91 felonies he is accused of, some related to his role in trying to thwart the Democratic process after his 2020 election loss.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-refuses-to-tell-sean-hannity-that-he-will-not-abuse-power-if-re-elected
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Trump Refuses to Tell Hannity He Will Not Abuse Power if Re-Elected
‘TO BE CLEAR’
William Vaillancourt
Updated Dec. 05, 2023 11:02PM EST Published Dec. 05, 2023 10:33PM EST
Donald Trump, in a Fox News town hall Wednesday, did not rule out breaking the law if re-elected president.
In the quadruply indicted Republican frontrunner’s third Iowa town hall with Sean Hannity since June, Trump’s response to a very simple question only raised the level of alarm among those who fear he will abuse his presidential powers.
Hannity, who earlier had shown interview clips and columns from high-profile leaders warning of Trump’s authoritarian nature, asked the candidate about it.
“They want to call you a dictator. You used the words, ‘I am your retribution.’ And before that, you said if you had been ‘wronged,’ and you used other words as well. But I want to be very, very clear on this,” Hannity began.
The Fox host and Trump confidante then teed up what should have elicited an uncontroversial response from the Republican Party’s leading candidate for the highest office in the nation.
“To be clear, do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if re-elected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?” he asked.
“You mean like they’re using right now” Trump responded, to some applause.
“In the history of our country, what’s happened to us, again, has never happened before. Over nonsense, over nothing—made up charges,” he insisted, referring to the 91 felonies he is accused of, some related to his role in trying to thwart the Democratic process after his 2020 election loss.
