Political Quotes

“But your final point, does Trump trump the Constitution? Do we have Kings, if you will, in the United States of America? And the answer is, under the Constitution, obviously not. And I so appreciate the name of Saturday's demonstration--7 million people demonstrating at some 2,700 sites across America, saying, ``no Kings,'' and many versions of the most creative possible statistics laid out, pictures laid out in that process. But you are absolutely right--your question. There are no Kings under our Constitution. But the President, in all of these things that I have laid out through the course of the night--the attack on the rule of law, the continuous effort to suppress free speech and free press, the attack on due process, attack on the law firms, attack on the universities, the use of violence, and the weaponizing of the DOJ--all of it is the way a King acts. So, in fact, we are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. It is not down the street. It is not around the corner. It is here right now.”