Trump 'ideologue' Christina Bobb was almost handed a top-secret government 'doomsday' guide

A guide exists in the White House that is a kind of doomsday instruction manual and very few people have access to it. But according to former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor's new book, one of the biggest Trump ideologues was inches from having access to it.

In his new book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump," Taylor describes the moment that the OANN personality and Donald Trump election attorney almost ended up on the National Security Council.

Bobb has about as much experience in national security as an action-adventure novelist, but she has long been a Trump loyalist. But according to Taylor, in the next Trump administration, that will be key.

The "doomsday" book is a kind of instruction manual for every possible national emergency. It "contains the president’s break-glass options for keeping the country running in situations ranging from global nuclear war to an armed foreign invasion of the United States," writes Taylor. It's the PEADs: presidential emergency action documents.

"Recently declassified records suggest that the PEADs allow the president to invoke extraordinary powers," Taylor explains. "The records hint at draft authorizations to enable the White House to unilaterally detain 'dangerous persons,' censor the news media, flip an internet 'kill switch,' take over social media, and suspend Americans from traveling. These might be the type of actions a president would take if the nation’s capital was destroyed, enemy forces were hunting down U.S. leaders, or the survival of U.S. democracy was in doubt."

According to Taylor, the man who held the book for the Trump administration protected it with the full understanding that there were many characters wandering the halls of the White House who would happily try and convince Trump to use it for non-emergencies.

"Would they try to manufacture a crisis so that he could invoke presidential emergency actions?" Taylor wondered. "The nightmare nearly came true. In Trump’s final year in office, the White House sought to put a loyalist into one of the jobs with access to the Doomsday Book. According to sources, that person was Christina Bobb."

Most recently, Bobb lied in a court affidavit that there were no more documents at Mar-a-Lago when there were many more documents. Bobb has suffered the consequences with increased scrutiny from the DOJ in an obstruction probe.

“I worked every person I knew to make sure that Christina Bobb didn’t get assigned to the National Security Council,” an individual closely involved with the situation, told Taylor, according to the book. That individual also noted "that the woman was dangerously unqualified. Career officials believed that Bobb was the type of ideologue who might misuse the sensitive NSC perch."

“We were a hair’s width away from her taking the role,” the former official remarked.

Taylor's book is filled with tales like these detailing what a second Trump administration would look like.

Raw Story has further coverage of Taylor's latest book "Blowback" here.