The German ambassador to the United States warned against this President-elect Trump The US administration will “undermine” democratic principles with a “maximum obstruction” agenda, a report said.
Reuters reported that it had seen a secret briefing document signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis describing Trump's upcoming agenda as “a redefinition of the constitutional order – the maximum concentration of power in the hands of the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states.”
“Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be greatly undermined, the legislature, law enforcement, and the media will be deprived of their independence and abused as a political arm, and Big Tech will be given the power to co-govern,” the document reads. On January 14th.
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Michaelis said that the recent actions taken by Trump and Billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk It could lead to a “redefinition of the First Amendment.”
“One is using lawsuits, threatening criminal prosecution and license revocation, and the other is manipulating algorithms and blocking accounts,” the document said, according to Reuters.
Musk supported Trump throughout the election, and was appointed by the president-elect to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Meanwhile, Michaelis claimed that Trump could impose his agenda on the states using wide-ranging legal options, and that “even military deployment within the country for police activities would be possible in the event of a declaration of ‘insurrection’ and ‘invasion’.”
However, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibited this Federal forces From participating in civil law enforcement unless Congress overrides federal law.
Despite what Michaelis says in the reported document,… German Ministry of Foreign Affairs The company acknowledged Trump's victory in the democratic elections and said that it would “work closely with the new US administration for the benefit of Germany and Europe.”
