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My eyes welled up as I listened to the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in the appeal filed by distinguished Senator Peter Onyelukachukwu Nwaoboshi (SPON) against his conviction by the Court of Appeal on trumped up charges of money laundering and fraud.

This rng. thiss what they say they want do. bring independent agencies like the ftc, the fcc under presidential control. refused to spend money that congress haspriad for certain programs donald trump doesnt like. that practice was pan unde president richard nixon by the way. strip basically allow intelligence agencies d the state departnd oer defense agencies to remove some of donald trumps perceived enemies. what do you make of those plans? >> you know ive been sounding the alarm that i think ...

Article that gives us the best look at how forward donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. according to the, times trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the balance of power by increasing the presidents authority over every part of the federal government. if trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. they...

And passion about policy issues. and then there is just a team of people going along with. when this new york times story pointed out the fact that what we saw in areas of the trump turn, what weve seen in the campaign so far is people who are following along to get along, going along to get along. they are not going to stop him from abusing power, from expanding power, from using the fcc to manipulate help companies, hurt others, et cetera. >> hold it right there. you brought up something i wan...

The federal government. if trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. they will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct presidential control. the times reports the ex president wants to revive the practice of impounding funds, a nixonian practice of refusing to spend money congress has appropriated for programs the president does...

And they get crushed. >> heres where i think sometimes we lose the threat. trump is not running because he cares about policy. he is running because he wants to prevent himself from going to jail and pardoning himself, potentially. hes also running to maybe pad his pockets. that is why he is running, it seems. hes not deeply steeped in policy. he is not showing a real desire and passion about policy issues. and then there is just a team of people going along with. when this new york times story ...

Stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. they will bring independent agencies, like the federal communications commission and federal trade commission under direct presidential control. "the times" reports the ex-president, quote, wants to revive the practice of impounding funds, refusing to spend money congress has appropriated for programs a president doesnt like. and trump intends to strip employment protections from tens of thous...

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Talked about, the twilight of democracy, where loyalty replaces competence. whether youre talking about it in the media sphere, where you intimidate and get rid of media opponents. what about, again, the fcc, donald trump having the sole power to decide whether this network or other networks he doesnt like actually are on the air or not? thats what were talking about here. talk about the danger, the level of danger to american democracy. >> well, if you love mussolini, you will love what donald ...

Used the power of regulation to run off people in the media that were opposed to him. i mean, he didnt go kick down the doors and arrest them. he used, you know -- trump is talking about using the ftc -- or the fcc. he did something just like that to chase off anti-business types. he would do that with his version of the federal trade commission. i mean, you go on and on. you go down the list, and this looks like -- i mean, this is lifted straight from, you know, orbans playbook. >> it really is...