In a normal presidential administration, the kooks get corralled far away from the president’s ear so they can do the least damage and annoy the minimum amount of serious people. But that was in other more responsible administrations, said Miles Taylor, President Donald Trump’s first-term whistleblower.
“In my two-and-a-half years inside the first Trump administration, I saw how ideas … traveled,” Taylor wrote on his Defiance website. “In a normal administration, layers of lawyers and advisors weed out wacky notions before they get to the president. In Trump world, it happens the other way around. He ‘mainlines’ recommendations from quacks — who go straight to him with their off-the-wall, unconstitutional, and impossible ideas — then dumps them onto his advisors.”
He added that “back then, a great deal of your government’s time was spent chasing those absurdities away, before they became reality. Now, his team chases them into reality.”
The latest nut pile on the menu appears to be a plan by 80-year-old Florida lawyer and Trump friend Peter Ticktin, who is pushing Trump to place the fall midterms under federal control. Taylor said Ticktin helped draft a 17-page executive order justifying the emergency on the grounds of foreign interference in electronic voting machines, despite that “interference” not being found credible by a joint Justice Department and Homeland Security review. Indeed, U.S. intelligence...
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