Rubio Likens Trump to ‘Third World Strongman’: ‘This Is Not Going to End Well’

‘It will be very difficult to elect candidates that hold those views at any level of government until we can bring party together’

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TAPPER: "You compare Donald Trump to a third world dictator yesterday in an interview with "The new York Times." How so?" 
TRUMP: "Well, I don't know about a dictator. I said a third world strong man. He's running for president so no matter what he won't be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles which I don't anticipate he will. Here is what happens in many countries around the world. Off leader that emerges and basically says don't put your faith in yourselves. Don't put your faith in society. Put your faith in me, I'm a strong leader, and I'm going to make things better all by myself. This is very typical. You see it in the third world. You see it a lot in Latin America for decades. It's basically the argument that he's making is he single handedly will turn the country around. We've never been that kind of country. We have a president. He is an American citizen who serves for a period of time constrained by the constitution and the powers vested in that office. The president works for the people. He describes himself as single handedly going to do this and going to do that without regard for if its legal. I can tell you this, no matter what happens in this election, for years to come there are many people on the right, in the moo he had Ya, and voters at large that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well one way or the other. He's going to be the nominee and he's going to lose. Or he'll have thrown this party into its most chaotic and divisive period of and that's unfortunate because the Republican party is the home of the limited government, free enterprise movement in America, and if it crumbles or divide or it splits apart, it will be very difficult to elect candidates that hold those views at any level of government until we can bring party together." 

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