question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thanks to t
and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promote, eve
2017. Donald trump had only been in office five months and just fired fbi director, james comey. The official reason for the firing was comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Trump couldnt manage to stick to the official line, as you just heard. He told Nbcs Lester Holt the firing was about the russia thing. Now, almost two years later, we know that interview caught the attention of the fbi, according to a bombshell report in the New York Times opened a counterintelligence investigation prompting this sentence in the New York Times report, which i am quite confident has never been uttered about an american president , quote in the days after President Trump fired james comey as the fbi director, Law Enforcement officials became so concerned by the president s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russia, against american interests. Just let that sink in for a minute. The times cites two instances that led them to open this