NBC on Saturday reported that Donald Trump is putting together a list of current and former military officers and exploring whether they can be court martialed, and the news gave one former Republican insider goosebumps.
Tara Setmayer, a former senior advisor for anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project and a former Republican congressional staffer, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend.
Host Jonathan Capehart asked Setmayer, also a co-founder of the Seneca Project, about the reported development.
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"You know, when you read that in the breaking news, I, literally, got goosebumps, because those of us who have been warning about this, we are apoplectic," Setmayer said. "We don't want to say, we told you so, but we told you so!"
She continued, saying, "I mean, this is what Donald Trump said he was going to do."
"This is what he has been telegraphing for years, and it is just so frustrating that now, all of a sudden, there is pearl clutching about this, as if we did not know this is what was coming," Setmayer added. "Now, this is an example of what we have seen in other authoritarian regimes, where they want to trot out military officers, or anyone that stands up to them, and makes an example of them. It happened with Pinochet. It has happened in other regimes in the past. Yes, I'm calling it a regime."
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