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David Frum: Trump’s Number One Priority Will Be Wrecking the Legal System and Suppressing Dissent in American Cities

‘He’s anticipating protests’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

FRUM: "Well, let's think about that moment on noon of Inauguration Day 2025, and suppose Donald Trump is the person taking the oath. At that point Donald Trump will be at the center of four criminal indictments, two federal and two state, he may already be on trial, he may already have been convicted. There’s nothing that stops a convicted person being elected president. At the same time, in the state of New York he’s going to have a civil trial to dissolve all his companies for their crimes. So what does he do when he finishes his inaugural address and goes back to the White House at 12:05, 12:10, skips the parade, he's bored? His very first priority is going to be to bust up the legal system of the United States. Because if he doesn’t, he probably goes to prison. So that’s priority one, wrecking the legal system of the United States. Richard Nixon lost the presidency because he was accused, because evidence emerged that he had tried to use the power of the United States to stop a criminal investigation. But Nixon had done that secretly. We only knew about it because of the smoking gun tape. Donald Trump is going to do it in public. That's what he does when he goes into office. And he’s anticipating that there will be protests, so his second plan is to send the military a bunch of illegal orders to use its force to suppress dissent in American cities, which is not something the military is designed to do or will want to do. So he’ll confront the military almost immediately with a question, do we obey the orders of the president or are these orders illegal?"

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