"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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