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Former President Donald Trump blundered massively when he suggested to Sean Hannity at his Iowa town hall that he would act as a dictator, but only on "day one" — all while refusing to clarify whether he would abuse the powers of his office when asked specifically.

That's the view of David Urban, a former strategist to Trump, who weighed in on CNN Wednesday morning.

Former President Donald Trump didn't directly answer Sean Hannity's interview question about whether he would act as a dictator and punish his political enemies if given a second term, just saying that he would do some dictatorial things on "day one" and then not after that. But according to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), you shouldn't take any of that seriously.

Burchett's comments, to CNN's Phil Mattingly on Wednesday morning, came amid a broader discussion about Trump's second-term plans, which have set off alarm bells with political experts as he and his allies strategize how to transform the civil service into a personal army and turn the Justice Department against political rivals.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for telling "lie after lie" to minimize the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Louisiana Republican, who led a legal effort among House Republicans to invalidate Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, has ordered the release of security video footage from the U.S. Capitol attack, but with the faces of rioters blurred out to protect them from being "retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned a Fox News audience that cheered on Donald Trump's threats to act like a dictator on "Day One" of a second presidency.

The twice-impeached former president appeared Tuesday night in a town hall broadcast on the network, where host Sean Hannity asked him leading questions to help him walk back remarks he's made during campaign rallies and push back against reports that his second administration would be authoritarian – but instead Trump said he would only do that on his first day in office.

A CNN panel expressed astonishment on Wednesday after watching footage of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) saying that he wanted to protect the identities of people who violently stormed the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.

After playing a clip of Johnson saying that Republican staffers were blurring out faces of Capitol rioters from video footage to shield them from "retaliation," panelist Lulu Garcia-Navarro argued that there was no ambiguity about where Johnson's sympathies stand.

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway on Tuesday shut down a Trump supporter who on Tuesday suggested that Conway abandoned the former president just to get publicity.

While appearing on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," a pro-Trump caller slammed him for his attacks on the former president and suggested that was the reason that his wife, longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, was divorcing him.