'Dictatorial impulse': ABC's Jon Karl warns about Steve Bannon's dark vision for Trump 2.0

ABC News' Jonathan Karl this week warned that former President Donald Trump's vision for a second term would be far darker than even that of his first, which infamously ended with a deadly riot at the United States Capitol.

While talking with anti-Trump conservative Bill Kristol, Karl outlined how Trump's 2016 campaign, while dark, at least made gestures toward building a prosperous America.

The 2024 campaign, meanwhile, seems to be all about Trump's personal revenge against anyone whom he believes has wronged him since the start of his political career — including many of his own former officials whom he has deemed to be insufficiently loyal.

Karl agreed with Kristol during the interview that Trump was exhibiting a "dictatorial impulse," and he warned about the malign influence of Steve Bannon on the former president's vision for a second term.

"I think Bannon's ideas, which is now this idea of retribution and rooting out the so-called 'deep state,' basically just destroying what is there in our federal government, ... this is a Bannon idea and there are no long conflicting influences," he said. "That is the purpose of this campaign."

He then warned that Trump would not bring in anyone like former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, or former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, all of whom tried to make sure Trump enacted his agenda without breaking the law.

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"Those people are not only not around Trump, they are pariahs in Trumpland," he said. "And the goal is to bring in a team that will not repeat what those people did, which was to basically make sure Trump didn't break the law or violate the Constitution."

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