Former U.S. Navy intelligence expert Malcolm Nance said in an interview that aired Wednesday on “Rising” that President Trump wants the same kind of authority held by the Russian oligarchy.
“He has grown up knowing nothing, but what he has grown up is how to convince people to vote against their own interests. What he wants is, he wants a nation that is no longer America,” Nance, a frequent Trump critic, told Hill.TV earlier this month.
“He wants to be like the Russian oligarchy. He wants to be able to say that laws are laws, and they happen. Technically he wants to be King George III,” he continued.
“John Adams had something to say about that. He said we would eventually vote in a tyrant, but he would never have thought that we would have a Congress that would say that a tyranny is the way that America should be governed,” he said.
Nance is promoting his new book, “The Plot to Destroy Democracy,” which details what he says is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to destroy democracy amid Trump’s election and presidency.
“It’s an analysis of the Russian strategy of how they co-opted the United States, put a president into power, and what they expect to get out of it,” Nance said.
“They can essentially ascend from a second-rate nation to a first-rate nation by degrading the United States,” he continued. “The best way to do that is by using the old Russian intelligence tools since 1917, which is propaganda, disinformation and lies.”
The U.S. Intelligence Community said in 2017 that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, leading to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the matter.
Russia has repeatedly denied interfering in the election.
— Julia Manchester
Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. hill tv