WE all have heard or read some of the insane things Donald the Orange would do as president….but one of his aides has mentioned one I had not considered…..the internet.
One of Donald Trump‘s former staffers claims the former president may “turn off the internet” if he is re-elected.
Miles Taylor, Mr Trump’s former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, made the claim during an appearance on MSNBC.
Mr Taylor was asked what kind of damage Mr Trump could potentially do if he were re-elected to the Oval Office in 2024.
“The possibilities are almost limitless,” Mr 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 claimed that Mr Trump could “invoke powers we’ve never heard a President of the United States invoke” which include decisions to “potentially shut down companies or turn off the internet, or deploy the US military on US soil”.
“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,” he said.
He said the potential for Mr Trump to use his presidential powers as bludgeons against his political enemies is “a big worry for people like me and others”.
“But that weaponisation of the government could extend across the interagency to places where we haven’t seen it before — the Department of Education, the Department of Veteran Affairs — ways to wield that power and those budgets to help his allies and to hurt his enemies,” Mr Taylor said.
Can he do that?
He may try but keep in mind that he has a uber-conservative Supreme Court that may allow him to do as he desires.
So again…can he do that?
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“lego ergo scribo”
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Turn off the Internet? I don’t think that will go down too well with Amazon and google. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
Noting, of course, billionaires behind the businesses that benefit outrageously by the Internet and who pay for Republicans to get in office to muck things up…
A pipe dream at best chuq
Mr Taylor said. “The biggest concerns for me are on the national security side.
Huh ? Biden and Dems have let over 8 million in without employment records, medical records, not even verifiable birth certificate, no criminal records check, education records and this jerk is worried that Trump is a threat to security. Astonishing. The fact that we are no longer energy-independent is the most serious security crisis in our history. The crime syndicates the cartels have erected nationwide make the old Mafia connections look like a Girl Scout roster. They are an independent government within our nation. I suppose the nationwide non prosecution of gangs and criminals is not a critical threat to our security either, eh ? Then there’s the matter of immigration of disease like tuberculosis, HIV, STD’s, COVID, Hepatitis, and children that have never had their shots. Still feeling secure ?Oh, and I hope no one has had a young family member murdered with fentanyl. Is that what it takes to wake up ?
I feel secure most of that is lip service of fear…besides this is about Trump’s lame ass buddy saying he will shut down the internet….chuq
BP has stopped transporting in Red Sea as Iran proxies firing at ships. Still feel secure with Biden foreign policy and his war on oil at home ? Get ready to pay for gas only by depleting your life savings.
Do not worry the Saudis will find a way to get their oil to market…..any higher prices will be because of panic and opportunity. chuq
Wow, these people are living in a fantasy land. Shut down the internet and the entire US economy would plunge into a financial depression that would make the 1930s look like a picnic.
plus how would Trumpy get his message out to the massive unwashed? chuq
Wow, I hadn’t thought of that. Yeah, you’re absolutely right, without the internet Trump wouldn’t be able to go on his late night, patented all caps raging rants while he’s sitting on the toilet.
This was just an attempt to get a rise out of the internet and keep his BS in the minds of idiots. chuq