Donald Trump is using his deployments of federal forces to U.S. cities as a political weapon to tighten his grip on Democratic strongholds, according to a former aide who served in the president’s first term.

Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security official, said on MSNBC’s The Weekend Sunday that Trump’s use of the military in Washington, D.C., has little to do with crime or immigration.

“I would say it’s even bigger than that,” he said. “And I think immigration is going to be used as the Trojan horse to make all of this happen. I mean, well, it’s like a Russian doll of Trojan horses to mix a whole bunch of metaphors.”

“But for Donald Trump, it’s about neither of those things,” he went on. “It’s about power and leverage. And that sounds abstract. That sounds conspiratorial. But every

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