Former national security advisor for Donald Trump, John Bolton, was indicted on Thursday, prompting a warning from another former administration official.
Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, explained that no American is safe because the administration is accessing information about anyone it wants.
Ahead of the indictment being announced, Taylor urged people to "zoom out" and look at the broader picture of all of the charges that Trump has ordered in the past month.
"The president of the United States is serving up made-to-order prosecutions, right? I mean, as Glenn [Thrush] was alluding to, these are fast food prosecutions that the president himself has requested," said Taylor. "He's ordered investigations into me by executive order. He's verbally, effectively, ordered it into Andrew [Weissmann]. That's two-thirds of the guests here on the screen. It's becoming something that's so easy for the president to do."
Taylor noted that all Trump must do is sign his name to something or say something out loud to someone, and it happens.
"That's really, really terrifying. Whether it's a Republican president or a Democratic president, we don't want it to be that easy to prosecute people in the United States," warned Taylor. "And it's going to get even easier than that. You mentioned the reporting, Nicolle, about the IRS. Well, my former boss, John Kelly, finally told the American people a few years ago that when he was at the White House, Donald Trump wanted him to open IRS investigations into his critics by putting Trump officials into these jobs."
The worst and most intense audit that the IRS can do was conducted on FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, during the first administration.
"He's now going to be able to do this, open probes into people at a great and massive scale, far beyond just individually picking off a Comey or a Weissman or a Taylor or a Bolton. Now they can go use this whole office to investigate people in masks, if they're protesters, if they run a pro-democracy organization, and the president doesn't like whatever that may be. And we know Donald Trump has the proclivity to do that."
Taylor explained that the selective prosecution has now become systematized by the administration.
"It threatens every American's rights because they're now digging into the data that they have on all Americans," Taylor warned.
