In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy accused President Donald Trump of orchestrating an “authoritarian takeover” of the federal government.

The outspoken Trump critic said the president’s recent actions — like sending the military into American cities, calling for the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and using the justice department to go after his political enemies — must be considered part of a plan and not as individual events.

“You can't see the indictment of Comey, the cancellation of Kimmel, the troops in Chicago as different events,” Murphy said on the Senate floor. “They are all part of the same story. They are all part of a plan, a well thought out plan to try to destroy American democracy and create a new set of rules that will allow Trump and his alli

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