U.S. President Donald Trump looks down as he participates in a call with service members of U.S. Army, JTF-Southern Border, 101st Airborne Division (REUTERS)
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says President Donald Trump is endangering himself by conducting an illegal search of ballots in Fulton County Georgia.
Weeks ago, Trump sent members of the FBI to raid Fulton County of its 2020 ballots in an effort to prove that he actually won the election in Georgia over former president Joe Biden. But Taylor — who worked in Trump’s first administration and wrote the executive order that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is now using to conduct the raid — said there is no federal rule protecting Trump from the consequences if a Georgia jury proclaims him guilty of an illegal search.
“People forget when they hear about this story that [Trump] was indicted on 13 felony counts in Fulton County for trying to meddle in that election. Five years later, he's back at it. They claimed it was [because of] foreign interference. They said it was regulatory irregularities in an affidavit. And then Trump said the truth in that interview a couple of weeks ago with NBC. He said, those agents are going to find out who really won in 2020. There it is. He gave up the plot,” said Taylor.
“It's like these people want to go to prison,” Taylor told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “He basically admitted that the federal government is conducting an illegal and unconstitutional federal recount of a state's election results.”
Wallace noted Trump’s plummeting poll numbers and called the raids a “profound and pathetic display of political weakness and terror.” But Taylor said Trump’s administrators should be warning him of the legal peril he is creating for himself, no matter how panicked the president must be.
Trump's team from his first term, said, Taylor, would not have let him endanger himself so recklessly.
“[They] would be saying, ‘Mr. President, this is a bad idea. Last time you got charged with crimes in a state, you couldn't be pardoned. You can't pardon yourself for those,’” Taylor told Wallace. “Why on earth are they even letting him do this? And we know the answer: Because he's brought in sycophants and flunkies who will not stand up to him.”
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