'Obedience over everything': Reporter lays out what Trump wants for second term team

The Atlantic's McKay Coppins on Tuesday outlined the criteria that former President Donald Trump will be using to determine whom he hires should he win a second term in the White House next year.

Drawing from interviews he's conducted with many Trump allies, Coppins told CNN that the former president simply wants a cadre of yes men who will carry out his every whim.

"What I hear from people in Trump's orbit now is that he will prioritize obedience over everything else in his appointments," he explained. "He wants people who will do exactly what he tells them to do... that could make for a very different administration second time around."

In Trump's first administration, he was thwarted in his efforts to prosecute his political enemies and to illegally remain in office after losing the 2020 election by his own appointees at the United States Department of Justice who refused to break the law on his behalf.

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Because of this, said Coppins, Trump is placing a particular emphasis on recruiting an attorney general with absolute loyalty.

"He feels that both of the men who served as attorney general for him, you know, betrayed him in one way or another, right?" he said. "It's interesting because neither Bill Barr nor Jeff Sessions were, you know, especially critical of Donald Trump during his administration. In fact, I think a lot of critics would say they were fairly sycophantic. But because they weren't willing to do everything he said and because, you know, in the case of Bill Barr, for example, he wasn't willing to go along with Trump's election conspiracy in 2020, he feels that they betrayed him."

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