During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg promoted a special edition of the Atlantic where analysts predicted the dangers of a second Donald Trump term, with the editor issuing his own alarm that there will be no "adults" to keep the former president from destroying the U.S. government as it is currently known.
Speaking with the hosts, Goldberg also noted that controversial former Trump advisor Stephen Miller — notable for his racist and authoritarian leanings —could return in a role that would make him one of the most powerful members in a second Trump administration.
"Look, as president of the United States, you are the de facto chief law enforcement officer of the United States, right?" the editor told the hosts. "You appoint the attorney general and the idea of Donald Trump, who is under 91 felony counts right now at this moment, returning to a role as chief law enforcement officer is absurd obviously, but here we are."
Addressing what a second Trump administration might look like, he added, "So the number one goal, the first goal, before immigration, before everything else, right? The first goal is to make sure the mechanisms of government can't be used to prosecute Trump or his allies, right? It is going to be a direct frontal assault on the independence of the Justice Department and, by extension, the independence of the entire judicial process. "
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"This is not going to be a situation where, as in the first round, he brought in people like Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly —adults. No more adults, right?" he elaborated. "Stephen Miller could be the chief of staff of the White House, we don't know. So the point is, they have been working for years to plot their revenge."
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