Trump’s ‘dictator’ remark jolts the 2024 campaign — and tests his GOP rivals on debate day
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Sean Hannity was trying to throw Donald Trump a life vest, and Trump was waving it off.
At a town hall in Davenport, Iowa, on the eve of what may be the final Republican primary debate of the campaign, the Fox News host asked the likely GOP nominee whether he had “any plans whatsoever, if reelected president, to abuse power? To break the law? To use the government to go after people?”
Trump parried. Hannity probed. He again asked Trump whether he was indeed “promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?”
“Except for Day One,” Trump said.
Were Trump’s initial remarks a Trumpian jest? A threat? A promise?
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He'll come up with that plan right after Infrastructure Week.
My first read I thought you said "Insurrection Week".
Which would coincide with Inauguration Week.
At least he didn't do the whole "Well, I'm not a Trump fan, but Joe Biden is such a terrible President and why aren't we talking about that?"