On Wednesday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) complained that President Donald Trump was moving the United States toward an “autocracy.”

Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “The president yesterday gave a speech to some of the most senior military leaders in the US Armed Forces. It was not the traditionally, those speeches are sort of apolitical. This one very much wasn’t largely akin to a Trump rally speech, but we wanted to highlight one line in particular to get your response, in which he says that he told the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, that the military should use American cities as training grounds. What is your response to that, sir?”

Schumer said, “This is so against the American way for 200 and however many years we’ve

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