Miles Taylor, a former member of the “resistance” in the Trump administration, predicted Thursday that former President Donald Trump could “turn off the internet” if elected to the White House again.
Taylor made the claim during an appearance on MSNBC to host Jen Psaki, who served as the White House press secretary for President Joe Biden before joining the news network. Taylor became famous in 2020 after leaving the Trump administration and claiming authorship of an anonymously published New York Times op-ed from a “resistance” official under Trump.
Psaki said Trump, if elected to another term in the White House, 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.”
Taylor then spoke of a “doomsday book” inside the White House, and said that the Department of Homeland Security had authorized him to reveal its existence to the public for the first time. The book, according to Taylor, “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.”
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“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.
MSNBC's @MilesTaylorUSA: If elected, Trump may "turn off the Internet." https://t.co/OstdHL4n9T pic.twitter.com/IcE9rtRfM5
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 14, 2023
In addition to Taylor, numerous other prominent Trump critics, such as former congresswoman Liz Cheney and former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, have predicted similarly disastrous outcomes from a second Trump presidency. Cohen claimed Trump would “annex” Canada and become an American “fuhrer” and “make everyone raise their hand and solute him.”
The news monitoring service Grabien created a supercut of some of the most radical predictions of a second Trump term.
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Media warn if Trump wins again every bad possible thing will happen pic.twitter.com/8u9PeFYoUV
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 12, 2023