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May 6, 2026
Stephen Colbert travels to Chicago to interview former President Barack Obama at the newly-completed Obama Presidential Center.
Watch as they discuss the president's love for Chicago, his long-term hopes for his legacy, and which presidential powers are ripe for abuse.
Keep watching for three more segments with President Obama and grab tickets to the Museum at the Obama Presidential Center starting May 6th.
"The President himself " although I once heard him refer to his "magical authorities" to bypass legal constraints " did not fully understand the powers he possessed, I was told.
Some of those who did understand were terrified he might use those authorities.
One such official, who once held the keys to the Doomsday Book, warned me back then that if Trump returned to office, he feared those powers being turned not outward at America's enemies but inward at citizens.
He imagined federal forces ringing polling places in opposition states, intimidation dressed up as election security, and the architecture of homeland defense aimed at the homeland itself."
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Much more at the link... It's also a paywalled Daily Beast story, but here's a video version of that:
Insiders SOUND THE ALARM On Trump's DOOMSDAY PLAN
Occupy Democrats
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- American society in need of a sustained and comprehensive overhaul
Which should be obvious, even to a blind Chinese squirrel.