Trump Asked by Fox News if He Will Commit to Not Abusing Power in Office
Former President Donald Trump is back to doing what he does best: making the media set its hair on fire and scream about everyone’s impending doom. During a town hall event on Tuesday, host Sean Hannity said, “The media…
Former President Donald Trump is back to doing what he does best: making the media set its hair on fire and scream about everyone’s impending doom.
During a town hall event on Tuesday, host Sean Hannity said, “The media has been focused on this and attacking you. Under no circumstances — you are promising America tonight — you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.”
“Except for day one,” Trump responded with a straight face. But he soon dropped the facade and took a joking tone as he pointed at Hannity and said, “Look, he’s going crazy.”
The Fox News host asked, “Meaning?”
“I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill,” Trump explained.
When Hannity insisted those are not abuses of power, the former president said, “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, ‘No, no, no. Other than day one. We’re closing the border and were drilling, drilling, drilling, after that I’m not a dictator.”
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For a typical candidate, the answer would be a straight no.
But for Trump, that is too boring. He knows how to get attention and drive people into insanity, and he revels in it.
Shutting down the border and opening up drilling in the country are not abuses of power. And Trump knows that.
But with The Atlantic dedicating the entirety of its next issue to the “consequences” of a potential Trump term, filled with the same fear-mongering we’ve heard for years about autocracy or a column in