Trump is no threat to U.S. democracy, according to historian Niall Ferguson
Claims that former U.S. President Donald Trump is a threat to the country's democracy have been weakened by the legacy of his first term, historian Niall Ferguson said Friday. "I think this whole argument that Donald Trump was going to end democracy and establish some kind of American fascism was blown up because of the way his first term went. Remember, all these things were said in 2016, that Trump would be a tyrant," Ferguson told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick at the Ambrosetti Forum, an annual econom