Trump 'would like to be a dictator': Ex-Apprentice exec

Yet another former associate of former President Donald Trump is now openly saying that he would like to be a dictator.

In an interview with Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, John D. Miller, a former executive at NBC, spoke more about the major regret he feels for helping turn Trump into a national celebrity thanks to his work on the reality TV show "The Apprentice."

At one point in the interview, Sherman asks Miller what he believes are the stakes in this year's election, and Miller hedges because he isn't sure how much of what Trump says is bluster and how much is a real threat.

He did say, however, that he believes Trump when he says he wants to strip the major broadcast networks of their licenses.

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"I do think that he would like to take CBS off the air and NBC off the air and ABC off the air," Miller explained. "Anybody other than Fox News who says anything bad about him he wants off the air."

Sherman then straight-up asked him, "So you think he wants to be a dictator?"

"I do think he would like to be a dictator," he said. "The people that he brought in for the first term that probably allowed him to be marginally successful during those first three years until the pandemic. That’s not going to be in place this time because he’ll hire yes-men and he’ll hire loyal people. And so the government, at best, will function badly, and at worst, he will do his best to make it authoritarian. And the worst thing is that we really could have the America that you and I both know go away."

In recent weeks, Ret. Gen. Mark Milley, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and former White House chief of staff John Kelly have all stated that Trump is a fascist and have claimed that he has dictatorial ambitions.