Trump's second-term plans 'should be scary to anybody': Former Trump official
February 20, 2024
Former Trump administration National Security Adviser John Bolton sounded the alarm about his former boss' plans for shaking up the world order in a second term on CNN Tuesday — and warned it would be destabilizing for western nations.
Bolton, a longtime neoconservative hawk, was reacting to the release of letters from now-deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who himself warned about the danger from former President Donald Trump taking power again.
"So The New York Times this morning published some of Alexei Navalny's letters from prison, and I'm going to read you something," said anchor John Berman. "'Mr. Navalny confided that the electoral agenda for former U.S. President Donald J. Trump looked quote, 'really scary,' it says, ''Trump will become president should President Biden's health suffer,' Mr. Navalny wrote from his high-security prison cell. 'Doesn't this obvious thing concern the Democrats?'"
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"Let's take that into parts," said Berman. "Donald Trump looked really scary. Why do you think that Trump looks so scary to Alexei Navalny?"
"Well, I think Trump has made it pretty clear he wants to withdraw from NATO, and I think that should be scary to anybody who worries about defeating Russian aggression, and not just in Ukraine, but really around eastern central Europe, central Asia, and the prospects of growing linkage between Russia and China," Bolton replied.
"A lot of people on the Republican side are defending Trump's rhetoric about NATO, saying he's just bargaining," Bolton continued. "All I can say is repeat: his intention is not to strengthen NATO, it's to weaken the NATO and ultimately withdraw from it. And I hate to be proven right on this, if Trump is elected, but I feel very confident that's what he wants to do. I consider that scary."
Others have expressed concern about Trump's proposed plans to stack the government with loyalists. Trump is pushing for the return of "Schedule F," which would allow him to more easily dismiss career government employees. Career employees are important to the functioning of executive agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency.
"When you think about gutting some of these agencies," Georgetown Law Professor Michelle Goodwin recently said, "then we're talking about matters that affect our health, that affect how vaccinations, for example, come into the marketplace and how drugs come to the marketplace."
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