Reacting to Donald Trump telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would act like a dictator the first day after he won re-election to the presidency, former Trump lawyer Micheal Cohen suggested it was not a joke and that there would be little in the way of keeping a newly-elected Trump from running roughshod over the Constitution.
Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, the former Trump "fixer" bluntly stated that his former boss is "dead serious" about using the power of the presidency to hunt down his enemies, and that Mexico and Canada may not be safe from annexation if he has his way.
"Don't listen to what Michael Cohen is saying, don't listen to what Ali Velshi is saying or any of the pundits you see on television," Cohen began. "Listen to what Donald is saying."
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"Yes, I have talked about this going back three years, two years, and then when my book 'Revenge' came out, it's all laid out that Donald Trump does not want to be president of the United States. How many times did I say it even on this show?" he continued. "He wants to be the dictator, the monarch, the fuhrer, the king — that is what he aspires to be. And when he says that he is going to be a dictator one day, I want to ask you this question, and I want to ask your viewers this question: when was the last time somebody became a dictator for just one day and then decided to give it up? The answer of course is never."
"He's being Donald. He is being dead serious," Cohen later added.
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