Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that President-elect Trump's administration will "undermine" democratic principles through an agenda of "maximum destruction," a report says.
Reuters reports that it has seen a confidential briefing document signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, which describes the coming Trump agenda as "a redefinition of the constitutional order - at the expense of Congress and To maximize the concentration of power in the president at the expense of the federal states.”
The document reads: “Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, legislatures, law enforcement agencies and the media will be stripped of their independence and misused as political weapons, and big technology companies will be given co-governance powers. "Dated January 14th.
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Michaelis said recent actions by Trump and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk could lead to a "redefinition of the First Amendment."
"The first is to file lawsuits threatening criminal prosecution and license revocation, and the second is to manipulate algorithms and block accounts," the document reads, according to Reuters.
Musk supported Trump throughout the election and was appointed by the president-elect to co-lead the Department of Government Effectiveness.
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At the same time, Michaelis even claimed that Trump could use a wide range of legal options to impose his agenda on states, "even deploying military force domestically to police activities in the event of an 'insurrection' and 'invasion.'"
However, the Constable Act of 1878 prohibited federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement unless Congress overturned the federal law.
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Despite what Michaelis said in the reported document, the German Foreign Ministry acknowledged that Trump won the democratic election and said it would "cooperate closely with the new U.S. administration in the interests of Germany and Europe."