'A catastrophe': Expert pulls the lid off Trump's next-term 'master plan'
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump has a "master plan" to use the office of the presidency to get revenge on everyone he believes has wronged him, warned Georgetown University public policy professor Donald Moynihan in The New York Times on Monday. The second part is to bring back his proposed "Schedule F" designation, demolishing merit-based hiring in the civil service and making tens of thousands of career government workers subject to dismissal and replacement based purely on loyalty to the president — effectively replacing their oath to the Constitution with an oath to Trump. The third and final part, he warned, is to "create a legal framework that would allow him to use government resources to protect himself, attack his political enemies and force through his policy goals without congressional approval," installing loyalists in key government lawyer positions that would otherwise block his plans as unconstitutional. These democratic values would be eviscerated if Mr. Trump returns to power with an army of loyalists applying novel legal theories and imposing a political code of silence on potential holdouts."
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