A former member of the “resistance” in the Trump administration, Miles Taylor, predicted that Donald Trump could “turn off the internet” if elected president in 2024.
During an appearance on MSNBC, Taykor told host Jen Psaki that Trump could enact new laws that nobody’s even heard of.
Taylor left the Trump administration in 2020 before claiming authorship of an anonymously published New York Times op-ed from a “resistance” official under Trump.
Psaki suggested that Trump could “use the levers of government to bend to his will.”
“You’ve worked in government. What scares you the most?” the MSNBC host asked Taylor.
“The possibilities are almost limitless,” Taylor stated.
“The biggest concerns for me are on the national security side.”
“I think Americans still don’t understand the full extent of the president’s powers and things Donald Trump could do, bubble-wrapped in legalese, that could be damaging to the republic.”
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Taylor also noted the doomsday book” inside the White House, claiming the Department of Homeland Security authorized him to reveal its existence.
According to Taylor, the book is “supposed to be used to protect the country in instances of armed foreign invasion or rebellion.”
“It’s the president’s most extraordinary powers,” Taylor said, adding that it “could be picked up by Trump and used for domestic political purposes.”
“He could invoke powers we’ve never heard a President of the United States invoke – potentially to shut down companies or turn off the internet or deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil,” he said.
“We don’t know, because the things that are in there, the emergency powers of the president, aren’t widely known to the American people.”
“That’s a big worry for people like me and others who worry about what he could do. But that weaponization of government could extend across the interagency to places we haven’t seen it before – the Department of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs – ways to wield that power and those budgets to help his allies and to hurt his enemies,” he continued.
As The Daily Fetched reported, a number of Trump critics, including Liz Cheney, Rachel Maddow, and Michael Cohen, have all made disastrous predictions of a second Trump presidency.
Cohen warned that he and other Democrats and media talking heads could all end up in Guantanamo Bay if Trump became president.
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