Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of workers below Donald Trump, admits one among his “massive” worries concerning the former President successful again the White Home is the potential for him to “flip off the web.”
He made the prediction in an interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki.
This writer should confess, upon listening to social media chatter about Taylor’s feedback, an assumption was made that it was a comment meant as a one-off soundbite to feed MSNBC’s rabidly anti-Trump viewers.
However no, he was fairly critical concerning the matter. As was Psaki who admitted that she’s “obsessed” with what sorts of issues Trump may do in a second time period “with out even essentially breaking the legislation.”
“What scares you essentially the most?” she requested.
Taylor reveals one thing that he claims the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) gave him “authorization” to say publicly, and that may be a White Home merchandise referred to as a “doomsday ebook.”
“There are issues that that ebook, which is meant for use to guard the nation in situations of armed international invasion or revolt, it’s the president’s most extraordinary powers could possibly be picked up by Trump and used for home political functions,” he mentioned.
“He may invoke powers we’ve by no means heard a president of the USA invoke probably to close down firms, or flip off the web, or deploy the U.S. navy on U.S. soil,” fretted Taylor.
RELATED: Dozens Of Former Trump Officers Plot Efforts To Cease Trump In 2024
Taylor, Or ‘Nameless’, Is Very Nervous
Taylor, who additionally served within the administration of President George W. Bush, you could recall, lied about his place to publish an nameless opinion piece within the New York Occasions bragging that he was “a part of the resistance contained in the Trump administration.”
And whereas he might have been a courageous warrior within the resistance beforehand, he’s very frightened over what Trump may do with that “doomsday ebook.”
“We don’t know, as a result of the issues which are in there, the emergency powers of the president aren’t broadly identified to the American folks,” Taylor mentioned. “In order that’s an enormous fear for folks like me and others about what he may do, however that weaponization of the federal government may prolong throughout the interior company to locations we haven’t seen it earlier than.”
Sure, he really simply claimed he’s nervous concerning the weaponization of presidency. Not now, in fact, however solely below Trump.
Taylor went on to recommend that Trump would use “energy and budgets” of varied departments within the federal authorities “to assist allies and damage his enemies.”
Even past that, concern {that a} Republican president may “flip off the web” when the present President has been actively and relentlessly making an attempt to strain social media firms to take away content material deemed misinformation, together with about elections and COVID-19, appears to be restricted solely to Trump.
Assembly To Cease Trump
An out of doors observer may surprise how the media and intel group went from “we hope Trump runs as a result of Joe will beat him once more” to “we should cease Trump in any respect prices earlier than he turns off the web.”
Confidence, it appears, is waning.
Maybe it’s this Rasmussen ballot displaying Trump holding a big 10-point lead over Biden that has the anti-Trump motion getting antsy.
It could seem efforts to “cease Trump” aren’t going so easily.
Taylor was a part of a bunch of former Trump administration officers who final 12 months had been plotting methods to maintain the previous President from returning to the White Home.
CNN quoted Taylor as saying the group was “overflowing with concepts.”
Apparently, a kind of concepts was to say Trump would “flip off the web.”
Now’s the time to assist and share the sources you belief.
The Political Insider ranks #3 on Feedspot’s “100 Finest Political Blogs and Web sites.”
