while in the same breath, also promising that if he were to win back the presidency, he ll weaponize the federal government himself in order to prosecute biden for unspecified crimes. trump asserts his innocence and all of the things for which he stands accused, alleging that the presidential records act allowed him to hoard government records and his bathroom, and he could see classify records by, quote, thinking about it. he has previously claimed that article two of the constitution gave him, quote, the right to do whatever i want, as president. when trump was essentially referencing there is something called the unitarian executive theory. illegal theory built on the belief that the president has complete control of the executive branch and rejects the concept of checks and balances between the free branches of government. now, as he campaigns for and makes another bid to return to the white house, trump wants to test that theory and turn it into a reality. according to a recent ne
machinery of government and voters returning to the white house in 2025. reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands, and quote. the plan, dubbed product 2025, is an effort to centralize more power around the president, and stack the administration with loyalists. that would involve bringing independent agencies like the fcc, the ftc, under the control of the executive branch, eliminating employment productions for civil servants in order to make it easier to fire people and presumably replace them with staff handpicked by the president and his allies. they also plan to revive the active impounding funds, meaning the president could refuse to spend money for programs as appropriated by congress. that s a practice that has been banned since the nixon administration, by the way. the goal is to significantly alter the balance of power in the federal government in favor of the executive branch. this would fundamentally alter
appointees, so he can replace law-abiding personnel with loyalists. personalist power. he s threatening to use the levers of the law enforcement agencies like the department of justice and the fbi, to investigate prosecutors in his opponents. that is something that no republican, and no democrat has ever threatened to do. the danger of the second trump administration is that the malevolence that was tempered by incompetence that we saw it first, that we saw in the first former trump presidency, will be on tempered in his second administration. the malevolence tempered by and confidence. beyond that, jennifer, apparently this isn t just a trump thing. according to the new york times, project 2025 is saying that they re going to present and help implement this expansion of executive authority with whomever ones the republican nomination next year. now this is sort of, this is
take a little more under the executive branch. generally speaking, democrats or republicans don t mind when it s your guy doing it. you think it s okay, you certainly don t want the other guys president, the other peoples president taking more presidential power. we ve done the same where people have not come out and yelled when the rift talks, hold, and that s not the way this was designed. you re not supposed to have these powers. to what degree is this a continuation of things that have already been, done or is this a great leap forward for what donald trump is supposedly planning to do for the next time around? it s a great leap forward for two reasons. versus, as you say, it is true that both republican and democratic presidents over the past several decades have concentrated power on the white house. this is true of both parties, and they ve done this by implementable steps. what president trump has promised to do in a second term is categorically different. he seeking to recat
the white house who reportedly testified before the grand jury earlier this year. mr. john mcentee, he s a former trump aide who is involved in crucial election-related meetings in 2020. he is also reportedly testified to special counsel. this guy, michael dhillon ordo, he is a former italian mobsters for the notorious can be no crime family. nothing to do with trump. he ultimately cooperated with authorities and dismantled the crime family. same we ll double, you know him, he s a notorious mob stir who played a significant role and putting john gaudy behind bars. lastly, let s not forget cousin greg, from hbo s succession. also nothing to do with trump. although fictional, greg s character assumes a witness to incriminating conversation. that is what ties all of these faces together. there are relatively low profile status, granting them access to inner circles of power. their ability to fly under the radar allowed them to be present in the back from