Miles Taylor: Trump Could ‘Turn Off the Internet’ in His Second Term

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TAYLOR: “I think Americans still don’t understand the full extent of the president’s powers and things Donald Trump could do, bubble-wrapped in legalese, that would be damaging to the republic. And one of those that I’ve noted is there’s something in the White House called the Doomsday Book. And for the first time, DHS gave authorization for me to mention this publicly, and the fact that there are concerns that that book, which is supposed to be used to protect the country in instances of armed foreign invasion or rebellion, it’s the president’s most extraordinary powers, could be picked up by Trump and used for domestic political purposes. He could invoke powers we’ve never heard a president of the United States invoke, potentially to shut down companies, or turn off the internet, or deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil. We don’t know, because the things that are in there, the emergency powers of the president, aren’t widely known to the American people.”