Today we're going to talk about the three-step plan to enable Donald Trump to

govern as an autocrat and I interview Jen Saaki about Joe Biden's uncertain path

forward and whether airing these grievances out in public is hurting the party.

I'm Brian Teller Cohen and you're listening to no lie.

So there is a three-step plan in place right now for Trump if he wins in November to govern as an autocrat.

The first is that you all know the Supreme

Court has ruled that a president is no longer bound by criminal statutes,

meaning he can commit criminal acts in office, claim that their official acts and

face no consequences as the result, meaning if he wants to

silence his critics, assassinate his opponents, round up vulnerable communities into

concentration camps, send the military into blue states, whatever it it is he will no longer be bound by

the confines of law or the Constitution he would effectively be able to serve as a dictator

with that said Trump can't do all this alone he needs needs allies who can help him, but those people wouldn't be protected by the sweeping

presidential immunity that Trump would be protected by, and so they'd have a lot of legal exposure,

which brings me to part two.

Trump can issue pardons, and also thanks to the Supreme Court ruling,

we now know that those pardons can't be challenged,

even if they're given corruptly.

It doesn't matter.

They're untouchable now. So not only could Trump do whatever he wants, but he could amass an army of loyalists who will be able to help him and face no accountability whatsoever.

But in terms of amassing that army that brings me to the final part part three

You've heard of project 2025 it is the Trump agenda that he himself is now desperately trying to run away from but which was authored by over 200 members of his first administration,

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