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Hysterical MSNBC Guest Claims Trump Can ‘Turn Off The Internet.’ Is He Right?

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Kay Smythe News and Commentary Writer
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Former chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump, Miles Taylor, said Thursday that Trump would have the power to “turn off the internet” if reelected.

Taylor’s made the comment to MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki and shared on Twitter by Tom Elliott. Psaki asked what the former president could do within the government that would “scare” Taylor “the most” if Trump wins his reelection campaign.

After talking about how he spent two years asking a similar question to his former colleagues, Taylor settled on “something in the White House called the doomsday book.” Taylor reportedly was given authorization to mention this alleged book publicly. It apparently discusses what is supposed to happen in the case of an armed foreign invasion or a “rebellion” in the U.S.

“He could invoke powers we’ve never heard a president of the United States invoke, potentially to shut down companies, or turn off the internet, or deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil,” Taylor said, describing some of the most basic powers of the president as if they’re anything new.

I’m sorry, but how dumb do you have to be to not realize politicians and the deep state have always had this type of power over us? Trump said in 2015 he would close off parts of the internet to the terrorist organization, ISIS, according to PolitiFact.

Not only does Trump have the power to turn off the internet, but so does President Joe Biden, and just about anyone with the technological capability of destroying our power grid and/or satellites.

It really doesn’t surprise me how something as basic as being without the internet would scare Taylor. If you don’t know how to live in symbiosis with the natural world, you should always be scared. Because, even though you think your life is great and easy, it is totally dependent on a group of elected (and mostly unelected) people who don’t give a crap whether you live or die. (RELATED: Obamas And Alex Jones Seem To Agree On How The American Empire Ends, According To ‘Leave The World Behind’)

Along with terrorists and elected lawmakers, the sun also has the power to shut off all electricity all over the world. Forever. Your elected officials are aware of this enormous cosmic threat. The same officials could easily mitigate a global blackout from a solar event, but they haven’t … even though we’re in the middle of a solar maximum scientists anticipate will get worse by 2025.

So, while you can freak out about a potential move from Trump that will likely never happen, you can also tell your elected officials to mitigate the threat of total infrastructure collapse by fixing the existence and prevalent problems with our power grid.

Taylor is most known for authoring a 2018 New York Times op-ed entitled “I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” which was written anonymously. He then went on to publish an anonymously-authored book called “A Warning” the following year. He only revealed his identity in October of 2020 while campaigning against Trump’s re-election efforts.

Taylor became the first former Trump administration official to openly endorse President Joe Biden in his run against Trump, and he’s been trading off of that brief flicker of notoriety ever since. Before serving under Trump and becoming disgusted with the apparent atrocities being committed by his government, Taylor worked as an intern for Vice President Dick Cheney and in George W. Bush’s Department of Homeland Security, both of which obviously did everything on the up-and-up.