Donald Trump is not much of a reader. But there's a book in the White House that " if he cracked it open " could change the course of his presidency and of America itself.
Three years ago, in the pages of Vanity Fair, I wrote about a manual that almost no one in America has ever seen. Inside the White House complex, in a secure location known to only a handful of people, sits an instruction book informally called the "Doomsday Book".
Its contents are formally known by an anodyne acronym " PEADs, or Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
Miles Taylor is a former chief of staff at the US Department of Homeland Security and has served on Capitol Hill, in the White House and at the Pentagon. He is a No 1 New York Times bestselling author, regular national security commentator and democracy reform leader.
"The President himself " although I once heard him refer to his "magical authorities" to bypass legal constraints " did not fully understand the powers he possessed, I was told.
Some of those who did understand were terrified he might use those authorities.
One such official, who once held the keys to the Doomsday Book, warned me back then that if Trump returned to office, he feared those powers being turned not outward at America's enemies but inward at citizens.
He imagined federal forces ringing polling places in opposition states, intimidation dressed up as election security, and the architecture of homeland defense aimed at the homeland itself."
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Much more at the link... It's also a paywalled Daily Beast story, but here's a video version of that:
Insiders SOUND THE ALARM On Trump's DOOMSDAY PLAN
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