Former Trump National Security Council official Fiona Hill issued a dire warning about former President Donald Trump's ambitions to run again in 2024.
In an interview with Politico, Hill was asked what she made of Trump's comments that January 6th rioters have been unfairly "persecuted" by law enforcement officials.
"Well, this is also part of this myth-making, as we're well aware: the perpetration of the Big Lie, and the turning of the people of Jan. 6 into martyrs and also trying to rewrite the historical record in real time," she said. "He is mulling again a return to what he sees more as a crown than the presidency in 2024."
Hill then explained the dangers Trump would pose in making another run at the White House.
"I feel like we're at a really critical and very dangerous inflection point in our society, and if Trump... if he makes a successful return to the presidency in 2024, democracy's done," Hill said. "Because it will be on the back of a lie. A fiction. And I think we have to bear that in mind."
Hill then explained how Trump has been using the same divide-and-conquer playbook Russian President Vladimir Putin has used.
"This America is looking dangerously like Russia — based on the divisions of Russia in the 1990s and then the Putin system that came out of that," she said. "China, Hungary, Venezuela — many of the countries that are expelling immigrants from the region. This is what we're dealing with. In all of these places, all of these issues are being manipulated and people's grievances are being whipped up."
