Donald Trump, USA | Donald Trump appeared in an exclusive interview – made startling comments

NORTH CAROLINA, USA (Nettavisen):

– There is no reason to believe that America’s democratic institutions and traditions are strong enough to last. It depends on how far Trump is willing to go, and what resistance the rest of the political system puts up, comments USA expert and professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Applied Sciences, Hilmar Mjelde, to Nettavisen.

On Tuesday morning American time, Time magazine published an exclusive interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump. The article title is “how far Trump will go”.

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In the interview, Donald Trump outlines what his vision for the United States is. It has opened the eyes of many Americans.

This is what presidential candidate Donald Trump says:

• He will arrange to deport over 11 million people from USA. Trump is willing to build internment camps and use the military in the effort.
• He will allow that “red states” can monitor the pregnancy of women in the United States and prosecute people who break abortion laws. He would not confirm that he would veto if a national abortion ban landed on his desk.
• He wants fire an attorney general who doesn’t follow Trump’s orders to bring charges against someone.
• “6. the january patriots”as Trump calls them, will be pardoned.
• His administration will be made up of people who believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
• The US will maybe do not come to the rescue if an ally in Europe or Asia has not paid enough for its own defense.
• Trump claims he will not try to change the law that says a president can only hold the position for two terms.
• The National Guard will be sent to American cities when Trump thinks it is necessary.
• He doesn’t want to hurt Biden, he says. He claims he has too much respect for the presidency. At the same time, he adds that if the Supreme Court not decide that presidents are immune from prosecution, he is sure that Biden is going to be prosecuted for “all his crimes”.
• He will use federal funds to resume to build the wall at the border.
• He is considering a 10 percent tariff on all imported goods. Chinese goods may receive a tariff of up to 100 percent. Trump’s team believes the tariffs will not increase prices, even if economists say so, pointing to inflation being below two percent when Trump was president. These tariffs have been proposed by Trump in the past.
• During the interview, the journalist wondered why Trump has not publicly stated that Russia should release Evan Gershkovich. He has been in prison in Russia for over a year. Trump replied that “it’s probably because he has so much else he’s working on. But the reporter should be released and he should be released. I wanted to ensure that he was released.”
• If South Korea does not pay more to support US deployed forces, is Trump open to withdrawing forces from Asia.
• If Iran attacks Israel, the US will be thereTrump reports.
• He do not think a two-state solution will work in the Palestine/Israel conflict.
• Trump is and has been critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and blames Netanyahu for the October 7 attack. Trump does not give a clear answer as to whether it is relevant to withhold support to Israel, in order to get Israel to stop or tone down the war in Gaza.
• When asked if there is more racism against whites than systematic racism against black AmericansTrump replies that there is definitely an “anti-white feeling” in the country.
• Trump also responded to the sensational comment he made to Fox News that he wanted to be a dictator for a day. Trump he says will not be dictator for more than a day. “I want to close the borders and “drill baby, drill” (ed. an expression Trump often uses at rallies and in the election campaign). At the same time, he claims the comment on Fox News was sarcastic and humorous.

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Don’t you see why many Americans perceive statements about dictatorship as the exact opposite of our values? asked the journalist. Trump responded that he thinks many people like it.

Washington reporter Eric Cortelessa conducted the interview with Trump. He has interviewed Trump twice in connection with this article. He has also spoken to a number of Trump’s advisers.

– What is worth paying attention to? we ask US expert Hilmar Mjelde.

– What Trump primarily wants is increased power. He does not care about ideology or political matters. He wants to rule as a classic strongman, where the entire executive power of the state becomes his personal tool, says Mjelde.

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“Be too kind”

Trump also lifts the veil on what it was like to be a new politician in Washington DC in 2016. The journalist writes that Trump thinks he was too kind. Trump knew too few people and therefore had to rely on others.

– Done big lesson Trump took from his first term as president was that he surrounded himself with the wrong people. People like Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr and John Bolton who said no to Trump in crucial situations, says Hilmar Mjelde to Nettavisen.

He claims he let people, who have now come out strongly against Trump, quit their jobs – instead of firing them. This time the beep should have a different sound.

– Trump 2.0 will primarily surround himself with YES people who never say no to him. That will be the big difference if and when Trump becomes president again, says Mjelde.

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– Completely realistic with autocracy

Several of the political ideas show how Trump thinks presidential power should look. Hilmar Mjelde says it is called “the unitary executive”.

– It is the idea that all presidential power should rest with the specific person who is president, says Mjelde.

The interview is trending on Twitter. Several sound the alarm. Bill Kristol, director of Defending Democracy Together and a well-known commentator in the United States, believes that Trump’s second presidency will be “much more dangerous than his first. It will be real aauthoritarianism, with more than a hint of fascism”.

– That the USA could lose its democracy and become a variant of a so-called autocracy, i.e. strongman rule, is completely realistic. It doesn’t have to be that bad, but it is completely within the range of realistic outcomes, says Mjelde.

Hillary Clinton writes that if “Trump becomes president, it won’t be as bad as last time. It gets much worse” on his Facebook account.

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– Trump is praised for his abuses of power

– If Trump and Trump’s policies are alarming, how does MAGA/the Americans let Trump get away with it?

– Because the US has a Janus face. There is a long tradition in the USA of both democracy and authoritarian currents in the depths of the population. But we have seen the latter mostly at state level, especially in the form of racial segregation 100 years ago.

– An informative example is that the Republicans turned on George W. Bush for his missteps, such as the Iraq war. But Trump is praised for his abuses of power. It says something that the party is much more radical now, concludes Mjelde.