Ex-Trump aide expects 'wild' actions from day one: 'He feels vindicated'
A former Donald Trump staffer who wrote a sharply critical New York Timesop-ed about his administration warned the former president would undertake "wild" actions in his second term.
Miles Taylor, who published the anonymous op-ed in 2018 and then a book the following year, told CNN that Trump planned "dramatic" action on immigration immediately upon taking office again after his election win Tuesday.
"I think it's going to be dramatic," Taylor said. "I think people should prepare on day one that Donald Trump is not going to do symbolic things as it relates to the border. There's a range of actions he could take. I'll describe them from mild to wild, including everything up to invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S. military to seal the southern border. I think we should take very seriously that Trump might go towards that wild end of the spectrum, and he feels vindicated in doing so, because it is one of the top issues that the American people voted him back into office for and people are very frustrated that there hasn't been action on this."
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"Now, what I would say is, if the future president Trump wants to solve the border for the long run, he cannot do it without Congress," Taylor added. "That's where [president Joe] Biden failed, that's where Trump failed the first time. It's where [Barack] Obama and [George W.] Bush failed. The only way to really fix the problem is you have to get Congress to close the loophole, and if there was one thing Trump could do to solve it, it would be a [Richard] Nixon goes to China moment and to collaborate across the aisle to try to get comprehensive immigration reform. If he doesn't do that, no matter what he does through executive orders, there will still be a crisis."
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