Ex-Defense Secretary: White House Is ‘Leading Us
Down The Trail Toward A Dictatorship’
Trump “has no understanding of what the rule of law
really means in this country,” argued William Cohen.
By Lee
Moran
Former
Defense Secretary William Cohen on Friday called out President Donald Trump’s
violent rhetoric about anti-racism protesters, warning the White House is
“leading us down the trail toward a dictatorship.”
Cohen
argued to CNN’s “Newsroom” host Jim Sciutto that Trump’s dismissal of some
protesters, by sharing a letter which called them “terrorists,” meant that “he
has no understanding of what the rule of law really means in this country.”
“He has
declared he wants to be the ‘president of law and order,’ but that’s not what
the declaration of this country is,” said Cohen, the GOP former senator for
Maine who headed the Pentagon during Bill Clinton’s administration.
“If you go
over to the Supreme Court, you see cut in stone, it is equal protection or
equality under law, equality under law,” he explained. “So when he says law and
order, he’s missing something, the word justice has to be there and that is
what people of this country expect when they sign a contract with the U.S.
government that there will be laws, there will be justice, and so law and
order.’
Cohen then
recalled a professor once telling him that “liberty without order is a mess,
but order without liberty is a menace.”
“What I see
taking place is the White House engaging in very menacing activity and leading
us down the trail toward a dictatorship where it is only the law of rule, not
the rule of law,” he added.
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