Donald Trump is plotting a vengeance campaign if he's re-elected to another term as president, and a Washington Post reporter explained how he's surrounding himself with authoritarian accomplices.
The former president has publicly threatened to prosecute President Joe Biden and has privately told others that he wants the Justice Department to target his political enemies, and journalist Isaac Arnsdorf told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" how Trump intends to start a potential second term.
"Simply put, he wants revenge," Arnsdorf said. "He wants to use the power of the federal government to punish his critics, and what's the crime they committed? It's the crime of criticizing Donald Trump, and the big takeaway from our reporting is not that he's saying this, it's that the people who are around him who are angling for a job in his second term are starting to come up with detailed implementation plans to actually do that. So that means they'll be staffing the White House with people who will carry out those orders and they'll be eliminating the traditional insulation between the White House and the Justice Department, to clear the way for Trump and his aides to be directly involved in criminal prosecutions."
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Trump considered implementing the Insurrection Act during the George Floyd protests in 2020, and Arnsdorf reported that he and his allies may try to invoke that rarely-used law to violently put down any protests against his election or inauguration.
"Trump has said publicly that he regrets not deploying the military in the summer of 2020, and if given another chance he would not hesitate," Arsndorf said. "His associates, specifically Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who viewers will remember as Co-conspirator 4 in the federal case and a co-defendant in the Georgia case, Jeffrey Clark's hearing this and is starting to work on a plan on Day One prepare a justification to invoke the Insurrection Act which would empower the president to deploy the military domestically against civil unrest, temporarily suspending Posse Comitatus. You could try that to challenge that in court, but the reality on the ground would be, not exactly martial law but something in the neighborhood."
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