Mehdi Hassan

but also giving himself powers that the founders never thought a president should have.

The founding fathers left the UK to get away from a mad king, not to recreate a mad king.

The VDEM, which is a group of political scientists out of Sweden, last year downgraded the United States from being a liberal democracy for the first time since records began.

But that is where we are today.

Well, tell me a bit more about that assault on democracy and about some of the powers that you say that he has abused and basically just renegotiated for himself as president.

So if you just look at some of the amendments to the Constitution, which make up the Bill of Rights of the United States, First Amendment, free speech, Donald Trump has declared war on the First Amendment.

One judge recently said his detention of students just for their speech, just for writing articles, was, quote, a full-throated assault on the Constitution.

And that was a Reagan-appointed judge who said that, not someone.

Marxist liberal judges, they like to dismiss all judges as.

He's arrested Don Lemon.

He's raided the home of a Washington Post reporter.

He's tried to ban flag burning in violation of the Supreme Court.

He's tried to defund NPR and PBS.

Again, a judge had to step in.

He's detained and prosecuted and tried to deport foreign students for their speech.

That's just the First Amendment.

There's the Fourth Amendment that says you can't break into people's houses without warrants, what ICE does all the time.

Fifth Amendment says you need due process.

He throws people out of the country without a court hearing.

Go through the list.