Tuesday, 9 November 2021 (YJC)_An ex-aide to former President Trump, says she's deeply concerned about him potentially running in 2024, believing that he would undermine democracy and "weaponize" the government against his political opponents.
Alyssa Farah, an ex-aide to former President Trump, says she's deeply concerned about him potentially running in 2024, believing that, given a second term, he would undermine democracy and "weaponize" the government against his political opponents.
CNN's Jake Tapper said in a recent interview with Farah, who served as a White House communications director and assistant to the president, that Trump "challenged our institutions near to the breaking point," asking if she believed that he would try to impose "some sort of autocracy" if he returned to the Oval Office.
"I think he absolutely would," she replied. "There were things he wanted to do while in power the first time that were well beyond the scope of what the U.S. president should be able to do, but oftentimes it was simply the motivation of simply hoping to win reelection that kept him from doing things. It's very different in a second term, and I think that's what scares me the most."
Trump, she said, would "weaponize the Justice Department against political opponents, going after the free press; he would certainly be open to using the military for political reasons as well."
Tapper responded that he found those ideas "terrifying."
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