Friday, July 21, 2023

Trump Campaign 2024: MAGA on a Revenge Path that He Openly Told Us

Seen at Trump rallies & praised by loyalists
(The threat is real and ongoing)

Startling story coverage from BLOOMBERG NEWS as many have suspected, plus coverage on who is working behind the scenes on Trump’s second term plan with this headline:

“If Trump Wins a Second Term, He’ll Target His Enemies, Migrants, and China”

If Donald J. Trump returns to the White House in 2025, he plans to:

1. Bar all babies born in the U.S from automatically claiming citizenship,

2. Ban transgender people from the military,

3. Hold elections for school principals to be chosen by parents,

4. Swiftly end the war in Ukraine,

5. Ousting scores of civil servants in the national-security and law-enforcement establishment,

6. And, ordering the DOJ (under him) to criminally investigate his predecessor (that would be Joe Biden).

All that is according to Trump himself in his own words, and he has made no secret of his intentions as he campaigns to challenge Biden in 2024.

His plans are being shaped by a group of firebrand allies from his first term, plus many from outside of his devoted followers that right now are likely wildly-well known.

His stump speeches and rallies routinely begin with a long recitation of his grievances toward political enemies and the prosecutors pursuing him on sundry criminal charges.

By the time he gets to his actual plans, TV networks (and sometimes even his in-person audience) have often tuned out.

For those with the patience to hear him out, however, Trump has started to go deep in his own policy weeds.

However, most of his proposals would likely face court challenges; others would be difficult to pass through Congress.

Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon, who is once again advising him, said in an interview:He is throwing down a lot of policy and nobody is picking it up. There’s a bunch of think tanks, three or four working groups, and a number of other vectors all coming together. The second term is being put together right now.” 

Far-Right Advisers: A coterie of aides and informal advisers from the fringe of the Republican Party are advising Trump on his policies, and they include:

* Roger Stone, who recently traveled on Trump’s plane with him to Iowa. Trump commuted Stone’s 40-month prison sentence on charges stemming from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

* Michael Flynn, the retired general who was briefly Trump’s national security adviser. Flynn was pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.

* Stephen Miller, the former Trump adviser who championed his most aggressive and controversial anti-immigrant measures.

* Steve Bannon, who fell out of Trump’s favor but, in the final hours of his first term, secured a pardon that ended Bannon’s prosecution on Federal fraud charges. Bannon was found guilty last year of contempt of Congress and faces four months in prison – he is appealing that.

Trump’s plans include an upheaval of federal law enforcement, even as he and several close advisers confront a growing raft of legal challenges.

If he wins in 2024, Trump is expected to end all federal prosecutions of himself and his supporters and advisers.

At the center of Trump’s policy-development also are two former White House speech writers: Vince Haley & Ross Worthington.

They are assisted by think tanks formed by Trump administration alums including the America First Policy Institute (AFPI)

(Note: One of Trump’s allies called AFPI the Trump world’s shadow government). That group is stacked with former officials such as:

* Larry Kudlow

* Kellyanne Conway

* Brooke Rollins

* Keith Kellogg, and

* Russ Vought, former top budget officer at the Center for Renewing America.

* A handful of people at the conservative Heritage Foundation are also involved that includes John McEntee. He is Trump’s former body man turned to head of White House personnel. McEntee spent his final months of the past administration trying to root out officials deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump.

My 2 Cents: Well, at least Trump is open and somewhat honest in telling us what he intends to do to, or for the country, including who will be helping him as Bannon once said: “Deconstruct America and put it back together in his image with him as the first ever one-man controller.”

This should be a wakeup call for everyone… but will it happen, and if so, then what, will it even matter or not to Mr. and Mrs. Main Street America?

Time will tell – but, it may be too late if that time ever arrives and the public is sitting on its hands.

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