Miles Taylor, Trump's former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, was asked on MSNBC
about what potential damage the former president, who is the
frontrunner in the GOP primaries, could do in government without
breaking the law. "The possibilities are almost limitless," Taylor
said. "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 would be damaging to the republic."
"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 added. "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.
1 comment:
Maybe we should explore ways and means to constrain or at
least limit the exercise of emergency powers.
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