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Saturday, May 09, 2026

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.

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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.

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"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

Occupy Democrats

www.youtube.com
@ 5 mins

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-08 03:08 PM | Reply

My current question ...

What might Pres Trump do to the United States in order to prevent the 2026 elections?

And as a corollary ... the 2028 elections?



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-08 06:53 PM | Reply

The drooling ------------ thinks gas prices are "way down"

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-08 09:01 PM | Reply

Lumper magic!

When might the Democrats let the Democrat people choose its candidate 2028? And ss a corollary 2032?

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-09 09:52 PM | Reply

lmao! How typical.

Thread is about the existence, and possible use, of a strategy to control the Gov with EOs and a crisis... and what does our Chinese troll and Trump Obfuscator Royale want to talk about?

The evil Dems.

What a joke.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-09 10:01 PM | Reply

What a joke.

He is getting pretty robotic.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-05-09 10:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Occupy Democrats"

I believe this is what's officially called a Doomsday Clickbait Group. I see some of my relatives on social media regurgitating their stuff just as mindlessly as some of the MAGA people do with the stuff on their feeds.

#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-05-09 10:35 PM | Reply

We like to call it News commentary... independent of major corporate media.

And as for as Dems go, they are minor players in the party.

www.opensecrets.org

But hey, appreciate the snarky ad hominin classifying what's in that link without ever seeing it, and therefore having no actual argument to what was said.

They call you, Amazing Kreskin at the club, do they?

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-09 10:44 PM | Reply

"We like to call it News commentary... independent of major corporate media."

Sure... and so does every other crackpot clickbait source.

I'm almost 100% convinced that these All-Trump-All-the-Time channels are actually funded by Trump supporters, even when they purport to be anti-Trump. You can practically smell the borsht on them.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-05-09 11:48 PM | Reply

- crackpot clickbait source.

Yeah, I'd wager you've watched that particular channel enough to know that.

Right.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-10 11:17 AM | Reply

@#8 ... We like to call it News commentary... independent of major corporate media. ...

iNews UK -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate iNews Left-Center biased based on editorial bias and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information. ...

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-10 12:13 PM | Reply

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