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Americast: Donald Trump: Dictator in Chief?

Donald Trump: Dictator in Chief?

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The former president says he'd be a dictator...but only for a day.

The shadow looming over the fourth Republican debate was the party’s most recent president, Donald Trump. 

But while the other candidates traded blows at one another, Trump was conspicuously absent, instead taking part in a town hall event on Tuesday evening. 

He raised eyebrows when saying he would only be a dictator on ‘day one’ if elected president. 

The Americast team chew over Trump’s comments – and the Republican debate – before speaking to GOP candidate Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas who’s still in the race for the White House.

And, a clip of American university leaders has gone viral after they failed to say explicitly to Congress that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their schools code of conduct. The team assesses how we’ve reached this point. 

HOSTS: 
• Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter
• Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent 
• Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent 

GUEST: 
• Asa Hutchinson, Republican presidential candidate 

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This episode was made by George Dabby with Alix Pickles, Catherine Fusillo, Claire Betzer and Maia Davies. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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