"To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland.
He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.
He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.
For those who say Mr Trump is not honest they should read the article in Slime
https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
"He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury.
He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense.
He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."
The interview is on my reading list.
I appreciate the national guard comment, but it has no teeth.
For six days Bush pleaded with Governor Blanco to allow the NG to be deployed to New Orleans and other lawless areas after hurricane Katrina.
She refused, so Bush deployed them on his own, but they had no police powers.
Only governors (and in the case of DC, the mayor) can authorized deployment of the NG with police powers.
