What Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who Trump admires, has done in Hungary is probably the right comparison to what might happen here in a second term.
Norman Eisen
The Public Record
American diplomat
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February 5, 2024
What he has done is reprehensible, unlawful, an insult to the Constitution, and an insult to the idea of America.
— Norman Eisen
The former President has even admitted he will be a dictator if he returns to the presidency.
He has issued a blanket threat to his opponents: If you go after me, I am coming after you.
I urge the Committee, with all respect, to focus on the most imminent threat of that weaponization now facing us as a Nation: Donald Trump's record of weaponizing the government and his promises to double down should he return to power.
It should be an absolute imperative to modernize, and update, and limit utilization of this dangerous statutory tool.
The Insurrection Act... grants the President the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions.
If he were elected to a second term, this time, he might do damage that would be irreparable.
It shows a disregard for the truth, Jake, when you say, 'Just declare it's corrupt, and leave it to me, and the Republican Congressmen.'
The Attorney General's performance today was shameful. He doubled down on lies large and small, continuing his misrepresentations.
This is part and parcel of Donald Trump's M.O., abusing the public trust for his own personal gain.
It's an abuse of the public interest for private gain that is very like the pattern in the White House.