At former President Donald Trump's Fox News town hall in Iowa with Sean Hannity airing on Tuesday evening, he proclaimed that Democrats are funding his Republican challengers.
The moment came when Hannity, who recently moderated a debate between Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA), asked Trump about President Joe Biden's comments this week that "If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running."
"He said that at a campaign event today," said Hannity. "How do you react to that?"
"I think somebody gave him a talking point that would sound good," said Trump. "I just found out that Democrats are funding Nikki Haley's campaign. I hear that Democrats are contributing to Ron DeSantis, or Ron DeSanctimonious' campaign. And then you hear the talking points. The only thing they are good at is cheating at elections and great talking points. They say we want to run again strong. We did really well in 2016 and we did so much better in 2020. The person they don't want to run against is us."
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"It's not me, it's us," Trump added. "It's a movement the likes of which this country has never seen before. We have never seen the likes of what we have all done together. This is not me. It's everybody here and millions and millions. I think it's not 75 million people, I think it's 150 million people are more than that. Who doesn't want to see strong borders and a strong military and low taxes and lower interest rates and go out and by a house?"
Hannity later pressed the former president about the recent warnings by analysts, one of which was shared by Trump himself, that he could turn America into a dictatorship.
Trump vowed that he wouldn't be a dictator if elected to a second term, "except day one," where he would use dictatorial power to close the border and "drill, drill, drill" for oil, and after that he wouldn't be a dictator anymore — but he didn't give a definitive answer when Hannity asked him, “Do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?”
