Expert lays out 3 'disturbing' steps Trump just took to secure MAGA administration

09 December 2024

President-Elect Donald Trump's first priority since defeating Vice President Kamala Harris last month has been to fill his Cabinet with controversial nominees.

In a report published Monday, the Atlantic staff writer Jonathan Chait laid out three recent "disturbing" moves the MAGA leader made to further solidify his far-right agenda.

First, over the weekend, "The New York Times reported that the Trump transition team is asking applicants for high-level positions in the Defense Department and intelligence agencies three questions: which candidate they supported in the last three elections, what they thought about January 6, and whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen," The Atlantic writer notes.

On Sunday, December 8, Chait continues, "in an interview with NBC, Trump reiterated his promise to free the January 6 insurrectionists.

Later on that day, The Atlantic staff writer adds, "Trump announced that he will appoint Michael Anton as director of policy planning at the State Department. This announcement attracted little attention, and given that Anton already served the first Trump term (in a communications role), it hardly moves the needle. But Anton’s appointment does highlight the banal ubiquity of authoritarian thinking in the Trumpified Republican party."

Additionally, Chait notes that the Trump pick "called 'The Flight 93 Election,'" in which "he argued that conservatives should support Trump, despite their serious reservations about his character, because another Democratic term in office would amount to the final death of the republic."

Chait's full report is available at this link (subscription required).

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