Bill Kristol: ‘It’s Literally Authoritarianism’ for a President-Elect to Say Someone Should Go to Jail

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KRISTOL: “I mean, think about this for a minute. It’s one thing — it would be bad enough if the president — Joyce knows this much better than I — if the president-elect used his position to accuse someone of a crime and say he violated statute 1465 of the federal code. That’s already jury tampering of all kinds of things, but at least it’s an actual specification of a crime, right? What’s the crime? How can a president-elect the United States say people should go to jail? That is literally authoritarianism, right? I’m putting you in jail. The charges, you know, the crime — we’ll figure out the crime later, right? And that’s what Trump’s saying. I wish — I don’t — it was a good interview by Kristen Welker, but I wish she had said, well, what crime do you think they committed, president — Mr. Trump?”