Willie Geist on Trump: ‘This Is Authoritarianism 101’

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GEIST: "This has been happening almost since the beginning of his administration. This kind of reporting that comes from inside the room. You have three people inside this meeting that allegedly led to Rex Tillerson calling the President of the United States a moron. It’s because they’re concerned. This is authoritarianism 101. You delegitimize the press and you delegitimize your opponents and then you try to destroy them. Luckily in the United States we have a Constitution that stands in the way of the President doing that. But he's saying to the people who support him and to the American people, 'Don’t believe your eyes and ears when it comes to things that criticize me. Don’t believe what you are saying, fake news, fake news, fake news.' There is no license to be revoked. There is nothing he is going to do or can do, thank goodness, because we have such a strong system. But you can go to history textbook 101. Any authoritarian in history has done this early and often: Delegitimize the press and then try to destroy it."