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Alyssa Farah told CNN that former President Donald Trump would "absolutely" impose some form of autocracy. Getty Images
A former White House communications director has warned of a "nightmare scenario" if Donald Trump wins in 2024.
Alyssa Farah told CNN that Trump would "absolutely" impose some form of autocracy.
She added that he could weaponize the justice system against political opponents and use the military for political reasons.
An ex-White House official warned of a "nightmare scenario" if former President Donald Trump wins a second term, she told CNN, per Newsweek's reporting.
Alyssa Farah, who served as the White House's director of strategic communications and assistant to the president in 2020, told journalist CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump would "absolutely" impose some form of autocracy if re-elected in 2024.
She described her former boss as a "man who has challenged our institutions near to the breaking point," according to a clip from CNN'S "Trumping Democracy: An American Coup."
Farah went on to say that Trump's second term would be "very different," and added that is what "scares" her the most.
"There were things that he wanted to do when he was in power the first time that was well beyond the scope of what the US president should be able to do, but oftentimes it was simply the motivation of hoping to win reelection that kept him from doing things," she said.
When pressed for an example of things the former president might do differently, Farah outlined her expectations to Tapper. "Whether it's weaponizing the justice department against political opponents, whether it's going after the free press, he would certainly be open to using the military for political reasons as well," she said.
Trump has not officially announced a run for 2024 but signaled that he will run when teasing a campaign slogan at an October rally in Iowa.
His former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said last week that he would bet all of his money on Trump running for a second term.
Another ex-White House official, Fiona Hill, who served as former President Donald Trump's top Russia expert, recently said that that Trump could win in 2024 if he decides to win. Like Farah, she offered a less than complimentary assessment of a second term.
"Just one constitutional crisis after another," Hill told The Hill. "We're in for a wild ride. We're already in it."
TrumpForPrison_2024 on November 7th, 2021 at 19:53 UTC »
Anyone who thinks she's paranoid or exaggerating must have missed it when Trump:
-Said that Obama would only win the 2012 election was if it was rigged
-Tweeted immediately after the 2012 election:
-Said he would only accept results of 2016 election if he won
-Claimed the 2016 election was rigged against him, even after he won, and spent 2 years investigating alleged election fraud committed by Democrats, only to find nothing.
-Said multiple times that he should be president for life.
-At a white house gun control meeting he said:
-Impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of congress after attempting to pressure Ukraine and China to open criminal investigations into various conspiracy theories surrounding his most likely opponent in the upcoming election, Joe Biden (while also publicly demanding that the Department of Justice arrest him.)
-Casually claimed that he was sitting on compromising information about a democrat senator:
-Suggested letting 1% of Americans (5.6 million) die of COVID to protect the stock market.
-Installed a new Postmaster General without any experience to make sweeping changes to USPS causing a widespread slowdown of service months before an election where mail-in voting would be more important than ever due to a global pandemic.
-Repeatedly told his voting base that mail-in-votes are unreliable and their votes might not be counted, with absolutely no evidence supporting these claims
-Claimed that the 2020 election would be rigged against him without providing any evidence.
-Had one of his lawyers draw up a memo detailing how he can still win the 2020 election if he doesn’t get enough votes by (illegally) having Mike Pence stop Joe Biden’s Certification
-Was the first president in US history to refuse to commit to a peaceful transition of power
-Asked his supporters in North Carolina to commit election fraud by voting for him through the mail and again in person in to ‘test the system’
-Demanded that votes stop being counted in states where he was ahead, while at the same time calling officials in states where he was behind to pressure them to ‘find votes’
-Falsely claimed that legally cast votes would become invalid if they were not counted before the end of election day.
-Announced he had won hours before the vote had finished being counted.
-Claimed that Biden winning the mail-in-ballots by a landslide was proof of election fraud, despite the fact that he spent months telling his supporters not to trust mail-in-voting.
-Was recorded 9 separate times pressuring government officials into committing voter fraud
-When told by the Justice Department that their investigation found no evidence of mass election fraud, he responded “You guys may not be following the internet the way I do”
-Allegedly considered declaring martial law and bringing in the Military to redo the election in states Biden narrowly won.
-Ordered Mike Pence to unconstitutionally stop Joe Biden’s Certification-Since Mike Pence refused to stop Joe Biden’s Certification, he riled up a large crowd at one of his rallies by telling them that they were there to ‘stop the steal’, telling them them they needed to “fight like hell” or else they “won’t have a country anymore”, and told them to march to The Capitol Building where they breached the building right on time to stop the Certification of Joe Biden
-Tweeted support for the mob as they breached The Capitol Building and chanted about executing Mike Pence.
-Refused to call of his mob for 4 and a half hours while they searched the Capitol Building for the Senators and Representatives
-Eventually caved in and called off the mob with a series of tweets:
- Impeached a second time for Inciting an Insurrection. No punishment is dealt, not because members of congress argued that he is innocent, but instead because his fellow republicans claimed there was no reason to remove The President from office when his term is about to end anyway.
-Said that the “real insurrection” was when he lost the 2020 presidential election.
-Claimed that the members of the mob, who were jailed with relatively light sentences, were “persecuted” and “political prisoners”
-Repeatedly demanded that various powers in the government ‘decertify the election’ and ‘say he won’
-Explained how he lies about election polls (and election results) to a crowd at CPAC 2021:
Donald Trump is a wanna-be Dictator.
Yeeslander on November 7th, 2021 at 13:53 UTC »
How do these examples differ from his first term?
Cdub7791 on November 7th, 2021 at 13:34 UTC »
No shit.