In addition to the arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants that he promised if he is re-elected, Donald Trump promised a “purge” of the federal workforce of anyone deemed disloyal.
In that sense, CNN warned that the magnate’s return to the Oval Office would mean exercising the power of federal law enforcement against political enemies, that is, political revenge.
In its editorial, the outlet claims that Trump and his allies have promised a radical transformation of the federal government that would exercise the power of the executive branch in radical and unprecedented ways.
He even warns that, even with the series of legal challenges that he would face if he wanted to carry out different policies, Trump is already working with a team that studies the Constitution in anticipation of legal challenges and looking for alternative solutions to give him the power to invoke some of these policies from day one if he regains power.
A revenge called Trump
Media outlets such as The New York Times have already stated that the Republican’s plans include rounding up undocumented immigrants, detaining them and creating “huge” concentration camps, as well as carrying out a massive deportation operation.
However, CNN goes further, Trump’s plan is to impose greater White House control over the Justice Department, an institution that the former president has said he would use to exact revenge on his critics, including his former allies.
“I will appoint a true special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” the former president said in June after his indictment in Florida. “I will totally destroy the Deep State.”
That is to say, Among his plans is to dismember the current justice system by firing “radical Marxist prosecutors who are destroying the United States.””.
It is part of a broader effort that would eliminate legal restrictions and traditional protections against political interference and give the White House more authority to install ideological allies throughout the federal government, CNN insists.
bureaucratic purge
Trump has made clear that he is planning an “extreme expansion of his crackdown on immigration” during his first term if he returns to power in 2025, but his cleanup plan would also go to the bureaucracy.
Part of Trump’s plans is reclassify tens of thousands of public service workers as at-will employeesa measure that would make it much easier to fire them and thus “eliminate dishonest bureaucrats.”
“We will clean out all corrupt actors in our Intelligence and National Security apparatus, and there are many,” Trump said. “Departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely reformed so that anonymous bureaucrats can never again attack and persecute conservatives, Christians or political enemies of the left.”
Additionally, he also plans to dramatically reshape the lives of Americans when it comes to policies that affect law enforcement, commerce, and the social safety net.
The former president has said he would require local law enforcement agencies to use the controversial police practice of stop and frisk in order to receive funding from the Justice Department. He also suggested that he would deploy the National Guard to cities with high crime levels.
When it comes to the economy, Trump has set blanket tariffs on all imported goods, signaling an aggressive approach to trade policy, with a focus on China, as he did during his time in office.
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