If Trump Becomes US President Again, It’ll Be ‘Much, Much Worse Than His First Time,’ Says Hillary Clinton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2016 US Democratic Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has said if former US President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, his administration will be worse than his first administration.

Clinton said this on Tuesday in a post on her X account while reacting to Trump’s interviews with Time, where the former President outlined what he would do including carrying out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the US.

“If Donald Trump becomes president again, it wouldn’t be as bad as it was last time. It would be much, much worse,” Clinton said.

Time reports that what emerged in two interviews with the former President, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.

According to Time, what Trump would do if he became the US president again include carrying out “a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country.”

Time reports that Trump said 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.

“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.”

Time added that “Trump remains the same guy, with the same goals and grievances. But in person, if anything, he appears more assertive and confident.”

The former president was quoted as saying: “When I first got to Washington, I knew very few people,” adding that he “had to rely on people.”

Now he is in charge. The arranged marriage with the timorous Republican Party stalwarts is over; the old guard is vanquished, and the people who remain are his people, Time reports.

According to Time, “Trump would enter a second term backed by a slew of policy shops staffed by loyalists who have drawn up detailed plans in service of his agenda, which would concentrate the powers of the state in the hands of a man whose appetite for power appears all but insatiable.”

Trump’s close adviser, Kellyanne Conway, was quoted as saying, “I don’t think it’s a big mystery what his agenda would be,” adding, “But I think people will be surprised at the alacrity with which he will take action.” (SaharaReporters)