Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Not An Autocrat. He’s Following the Precedents Set By Obama, Biden 

I have one piece of advice for President Donald Trump. 

Whether it's dealing with the fallout from executive orders, mass deportations, or bombing foreign countries without explicit congressional approval, President Trump just simply needs to remind his critics that nothing he’s doing is “ahistorical or unprecedented,” advises Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:”

“So, they're saying he is deporting, deporting, deporting people. Well, Barack Obama deported more people in his tenure than any other prior president—2.5 million. And he focused on criminal aliens. He said so. Just like Donald Trump did. And as far as cages and detention centers, Obama created them. So Trump just said, ‘I'm just following the precedent of Obama.’"

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00:00 Introduction and Context

00:08 Trump's Use of Presidential Powers

01:20 Legal and Political Attacks on Trump

02:37 Comparing Trump and Obama on Deportations

03:02 Subpoenas and Executive Power

04:00 Military Actions and Precedents

04:59 Executive Orders and Final Thoughts

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