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Los Angeles: <\/strong>Donald Trump says that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US president again except \u201con day one\u201d.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he said during a televised town hall event in Iowa after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that America was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

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Former president Donald Trump talks to supporters in Davenport, Iowa. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for candidate, had to be asked twice by Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?\u201d Hannity asked Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept for day one,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cI want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump then repeated his assertion, as if to report on the exchange: \u201cI love this guy,\u201d he said of the Fox News host. \u201cHe says, \u2018You\u2019re not going to be a dictator, are you?\u2019 I said: \u2018No, no, no, other than day one. We\u2019re closing the border and we\u2019re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I\u2019m not a dictator\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n

Earlier in the interview, Hannity had asked Trump if he \u201cin any way\u201d had \u201cany plans whatsoever, if re-elected president, to abuse power, to break the law to use the government to go after people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean like they\u2019re using right now?\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n

Trump said on that day he would use his presidential powers to close the southern border with Mexico and expand oil drilling.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. No. Other than day one,\u201d Trump repeated when asked to deny he would become a \u201cdictator\u201d if he won the November election.<\/p>\n

Trump, seeking a second White House term in a likely re-match with Democratic President Joe Biden, has frequently promised \u201cretribution\u201d on political opponents if he gains power again.<\/p>\n

Targets include Biden, prosecutors who have charged him with dozens of crimes, the Justice Department, and the federal bureaucracy, he said in campaign speeches and TV appearances this year.<\/p>\n

Trump was appearing at the Fox News event before a friendly audience in Davenport, Iowa, the state where the party\u2019s nominating contest kicks off on January 15.<\/p>\n

As soon as the event finished, Biden\u2019s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said in a statement: \u201cDonald Trump has been telling us exactly what he will do if he\u2019s re-elected and tonight he said he will be a dictator on day one. Americans should believe him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was US president between 2017 and 2021, and has refused to concede that he lost to Biden in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

Since then, Trump has spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, a conspiracy that fuelled the deadly insurrection by Trump supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump\u2019s election lies also form a cornerstone of his current White House campaign.<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidates from left: Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rivals for the nomination, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, appeared at a televised debate at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, that was market by insults.<\/p>\n

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy \u201cthe most obnoxious blowhard in America\u201d. Ramaswamy called Haley corrupt and said she was \u201cthe only person more fascist\u201d than Biden.<\/p>\n

The four candidates showed little reticence in attacking each other in what could be their last face-off before the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

Haley accused both Ramaswamy and DeSantis of lying several times during the debate but tried to stay above the fray. \u201cNo, it\u2019s not worth my time to respond to him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie debates with Nikki Haley.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

Christie compared Trump to Voldemort, the fictional wizard from the Harry Potter series who is so evil people are afraid to utter his name. \u201cVoldemort \u2013 he who shall not be named,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump skipped the event, as he has done for the three previous Republican debates.<\/p>\n

Biden has repeatedly warned that Trump is a threat to democracy, and that a second Trump term could usher in an unprecedented and dangerous age of American autocracy.<\/p>\n

Former US Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican who is an outspoken critic of Trump and who co-chaired the congressional probe into the attack on the Capitol, said in media interviews to promote a memoir this week that a Trump dictatorship was a \u201cvery real threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

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