Germany’s ambassador to the U.S. has warned that President-elect Trump’s medication volition "undermine" antiauthoritarian principles with a "maximum disruption" agenda, according to a report.
Reuters reported that it viewed a confidential briefing papers signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis that describes the incoming Trump docket arsenic "a redefinition of the law bid - maximum attraction of powerfulness with the president astatine the disbursal of Congress and the national states."
"Basic antiauthoritarian principles and checks and balances volition beryllium mostly undermined, the legislature, instrumentality enforcement and media volition beryllium robbed of their independency and misused arsenic a governmental arm, Big Tech volition beryllium fixed co-governing power," reads the document, which was dated Jan. 14.
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Michaelis said caller actions by Trump and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk could pb to a "redefinition of the First Amendment."
"One is utilizing lawsuits, threatening transgression prosecution and licence revocation, the different is having algorithms manipulated and accounts blocked," the papers reads, per Reuters.
Musk supported Trump passim the election, and was tapped by the president-elect to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Last month, Germany accused Musk of attempting to interfere successful the country's upcoming parliamentary elections connected behalf of the country's far-right governmental party, German Alternative for Germany, citing caller societal media posts and a play op-ed doubling down connected his endorsement.
Meanwhile, Michaelis adjacent claimed that Trump could unit his docket connected states utilizing wide ineligible options and that "even subject deployment wrong the state for constabulary activities would beryllium imaginable successful the lawsuit of declared 'insurrection' and 'invasion'."
The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, however, bars federal troops from participating successful civilian instrumentality enforcement unless Congress overrides the national law.
Despite what Michaelis says successful the reported document, the German overseas ministry has acknowledged Trump won the antiauthoritarian predetermination and said it volition "work intimately with the caller U.S. medication successful the interests of Germany and Europe."