Trump Cited ‘Magical Authorities’ to Ignore the Law, Says Former Aide

A former Trump administration official warns that the president's loyalists are anticipating an even more unshackled second term. jonathanchait writes

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Like many veterans of the Trump administration, former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor has come away warning that the president is corrupt, ignorant, and completely incompetent. But Taylor also warns that the president is thoroughly authoritarian.

Trump has repeatedly claimed in public to have unlimited powers. “I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said last year. “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” he asserted this year.

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