'What is coming': Former prosecutor previews Trump's plan to obtain 'limitless power'
A Donald Trump aide recently hinted at the president's plan to obtain "limitless power," according to a former prosecutor this weekend.
Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on Saturday called "When they Bukele the Courts," in which she talks about Trump following on the path of Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador. Bukele previously said, "If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.”
According to Vance, Trump is following this path of threatening judicial appointees for a reason.
"Why is it important to threaten and intimidate the courts? Because of what is coming. We talk a lot about the audience of one. There’s also an audience of nine, or put more rightly, an audience of six, that must be persuaded to continue to side with the president. As the administration seems to increasingly focus on invoking the Insurrection Act, keeping the Court on its side will be of utmost importance," she wrote in reference to the Supreme Court.
Vance added, "Responding to a question about the legality of deploying National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, last week, Stephen Miller began to respond that 'the president has plenary authority' to do so. He was cut off, either by a technical glitch or some recognition that he was about to say the quiet part out loud, because plenary authority means unlimited power to act."
"That’s what the Trump administration is advocating for: a unitary presidency that no court has the power to second-guess, which effectively means limitless power," she said. "That’s a good reason to try to Bukele the courts if you’re the president."