Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump Has a Better Sense Now How to Implement His ‘Authoritarian Impulses’

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GOLDBERG: “You know our -- our colleague at 'The Atlantic' David Frum said that the -- the issue with the next Trump term, a theoretical next Trump term is that the velociraptors have learned how to turn the door handles, which I think is a very vivid description of what could happen. In other words last time the -- let's say the authoritarian impulses that a lot of people around Trump believe he has, you know, John Kelly said this obviously, Bob Woodward, Mark Milley, Jim Mattis, the former Secretary of Defense, they -- you know, they believe that he has authoritarian impulses but what we saw in the first term was a lack of ability or will or hard work to make those changes in the government, make those changes in America that he wanted to. But now combine the fact that they he won't hire people like Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson, H.R. McMaster, John Kelly, he's promised not to hire people like that, people with broad experience and -- and probity and intellectual capacity. He's promised not to hire them. And they've figured out where they went wrong let's say on the you know immigration issues for instance. I think that all of this group including John Bolton the former National Security Adviser, no softy obviously in a whole bunch of issues, believe that it could be a much more dangerous administration because he has a better sense or the people around him have a better sense of what he wants to do or what he can achieve using the right mechanisms."