This is the best summary I could come up with:

During a conversation with Donald Trump on Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked the former president and front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination the functional equivalent of the rookie cop’s question above.

It’s noteworthy, of course, that Trump didn’t reply to the question as a wary observer might hope, by reiterating his commitment to the United States’ constitutional principles, including the balance of power.

He showed an array of people from traditional or non-right-wing media discussing Trump’s rhetoric and the likelihood that, if elected in 2024, the former president would undercut American democracy.

Their conversation came just a few hours after special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for his efforts to retain power despite having lost the 2020 presidential election, filed a notice with the court in D.C. articulating Trump’s long pattern of “repeatedly refus[ing] to commit to a peaceful transition of presidential power.”

“The defendant’s consistent refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power, dating back to the 2016 presidential campaign, is admissible evidence of his plan to undermine the integrity of the presidential transition process when faced with the possibility of an election result that he would not like,” the filing read, “as well as his motive, intent, and plan to interfere with the implementation of an election result with which he was not satisfied.”

This is the point he made to Univision: He thinks — or likes to argue — that the Biden administration is targeting him for political reasons, so he is empowered to do the same.

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That’s been his goal from the beginning, he may not have known it was gonna be Trump but Hannity has wanted a dictator for decades