‘A Second Trump Term Could Mean the End of American Democracy’
Former staffers issue ominous warning
A group of young women who worked for Donald Trump in the White House have issued a remarkable and stunning warning should the former president win another term.
A second Trump term could well spell the end of American democracy and the shredding of the US Constitution, the women cautioned.
The three former staffers were assembled as a panel for ABC News and included: Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president; Sarah Matthews, former White House deputy press secretary; and Cassidy Hutchinson, the one-time Trump staffer who became a star, televised witness for the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
Trump is the distant frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination and has been running competitively in public opinion polling in a rematch against President Biden.
He also was criminally indicted four times last year, with nearly 100 individual felony charges.
“Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it. And I don’t say that lightly,” said Griffin, who currently is a co-host of the daytime talk show The View and also appears on CNN as a political commentator. “We all witnessed him trying to steal a democratic election before, and going to historic and unconstitutional lengths to do so.
“And that just shows that he’s willing to basically break every barrier to get into power and to stay in power. But also, I’m very concerned about what that term would actually look like,” she added.
Trump already is communicating just what he would do if given another four years in the White House, according to Matthews.
“We don’t need to speculate what a second Trump term would look like because we already saw it play out,” she said. “To this day, he still doubles down on the fact that he thinks that the election was stolen and fraudulent.
“And then his rhetoric has just gotten increasingly erratic. I mean, he has literally called for things like doing away with parts of the Constitution, wanting to weaponize the [Justice Department] to enact revenge on his political enemies,” Matthews added.
Trump’s authoritarian impulses reveal a lot about his character, said Hutchinson, who published a book about her experiences.
“The fact that he feels that he needs to lean into being a dictator alone shows that he is a weak and feeble man who has no sense of character and integrity and has no sense of leadership,” she said.
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