SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I guess the question is, in history, we've had some very challenging times, can you think of a bigger abuse of power in our history?



NEWT GINGRICH: Look, I think the person whose situation is the most like President Trump's was Abraham Lincoln.



Lincoln is fighting to preserve the Constitution, he's fighting to preserve the Union, and he's having to do a lot of different things that are very bold and in some cases very radical, and he is trying to do it in a way that he's deeply, bitterly opposed, not just by the slave-owning South, but also by a substantial number of Democrats in the North, and I think that Trump's in a very similar place.

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