Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who served in President Donald Trump's first term, asserted that the commander-in-chief was deploying the military in U.S. cities for "power and leverage."

During a Sunday appearance on MSNBC, Taylor disagreed with pundits who believe that Trump's goal was to crack down on crime and immigration.

"I would say it's even bigger than that," he explained. "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 continued. "It's about power and leverage. And that sounds abstract. That sounds conspiratorial. But everything that he does by his

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