This, from Axios today, is eye opening:
Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios.
Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents.
And that reporting comes hard on the heels of this — via the New York Times over the weekend —on how a President Trump would handle immigration in a 2nd term:
Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.
The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.
Mr. Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a Covid 19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — though this time he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
He plans to scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.
The truth is that Trump and his allies are making very clear exactly what America would be getting if he wins next November.
I talked about that — and why it’s SO important to pay very close attention — in the video below.
I wonder if Trump's plans for a 2nd term include how he will run the country from his prison cell, because odds are he will be convicted on at least some of those 91 charges. If he's convicted in Georgia, he won't be able to pardon himself either.
A Trump second term terrifies me