The former aide warned Trump could “invoke powers we’ve never heard a President of the United States invoke” and “potentially shut down companies or turn off the internet, or deploy the US military on US soil”.
He insisted the prospect of the former president using emergency powers should be “a big worry for people like me and others”.
Taylor told MSNBC: “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.”
During his latest visit to Iowa, Trump insulted his GOP rivals and President Joe Biden and boasted about everything from keeping Iowa at the forefront of the Republican nominating process to bringing back the phrase “Merry Christmas,” though he didn’t offer details explaining when he thought it had gone missing.
He vowed that if he won the 2024 presidential election, the economy would be thriving again by Christmas of that year.
Though he has faced a bevy of legal problems, including four criminal cases, Trump campaigned regularly in Iowa throughout the autumn, far more than in any other early-voting state for the 2024 Republican nomination.
His “Commit to Caucus” event in the eastern city of Coralville near Iowa City was part rally, part “caucus 101.” Besides Trump’s address, it featured an explanatory video featuring an animated character and a panel of local organizers instructing Iowa Republicans on how and where to participate in the in-person meetings.
Before Trump arrived, hundreds wound around the hotel, waiting to enter the ballroom where he was to speak.
About a quarter of the crowd of more than 1,000 people raised their hands to indicate that it was their first time participating in a caucus.
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