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Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ as he ices out rivals in frozen Iowa

2024-01-11 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday again vowed to seize dictatorial powers if elected to the nation’s highest office once more but attempted to walk back his frequently made promise to exact retribution on his political enemies during a second term in the White House.

The disgraced former president, who is currently facing more than 90 felony charges in four separate jurisdictions and is scheduled to go on trial in March for attempting a coup to keep himself in office after losing the 2020 election, promised to spend his first day of a second term ruling as an autocrat during a town hall broadcast on Fox News ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.

Asked by a voter in the Hawkeye State – where temperatures have dropped below freezing – how he’d respond to critics who argue that restoring to him to power would unleash untold chaos upon the country, Mr Trump replied that the chaos of his first term was the fault of Democrats in the House of Representatives and law enforcement officials who conducted investigations into his conduct.

He also attempted to turn back Democratic criticism of his intention to be an autocrat by describing reporting of his pledge to rule as a dictator “on day one” as a “new narrative” meant to paper over a poor governance record by President Joe Biden, his successor and likely general election opponent.

“I think that he's using this is just a political ploy — ‘Trump is a dictator, he wants to be a dictator,’” he said before launching into a long-winded explanation of how he had pledged to be a dictator on his first day in office during a friendly interview with Fox host Sean Hannity.

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“I said, I'm going to be a dictator for one day,” he recalled, adding that in his telling he’d meant that he’d use his dictatorial powers to seal the US-Mexico border and somehow order increases in fossil fuel production on his first day back in the White House.

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