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President Donald Trump is trying to create a climate of fear in America, but his former Homeland Security chief of staff told MS NOW that the courts are punishing him for his effort.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust think about this \u2014 our friend Kyle Cheney over at Politico, I think as of earlier this month, documented that there had been 10,000 cases judges had thrown out of people illegally put in immigration custody,\u201d Miles Taylor told Nicole Wallace on MS NOW. \u201cThat’s just one type of case \u2014 10,000 thrown out. There’s a 9-to-1 loss ratio when the government gets challenged on illegal detention. That is breathtaking. And that’s just immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThen you look at the big constitutional suits against this administration \u2014 big separation-of-powers issues, big violations of law. There are hundreds of those cases, I think north of 700 in the courts, and the administration has been losing those 2-to-1 in the lower courts. They are on a crime spree across this administration. The numbers show it. And you can’t believe the administration when they say, \u2018Well, that’s liberal activist judges\u2019 \u2014 72 percent of the time, Republican-appointed judges are ruling against them. They’re getting their b\u2014\u2014 kicked in the courts because they’re breaking the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor, who served in Trump’s first term in the Department of Homeland Security, added that, while these might seem like failures for the administration, they are not once you realize that their goal is intimidation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere’s the thing, Nicole \u2014 they kind of don’t care if they win these cases, because their goal is just to scare people about getting sued,\u201d Taylor explained. He then pivoted from breaking down the culture of fear\u2019s impact on immigration policy to the culture of fear\u2019s impact on the economy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you need evidence of that, Andrew Ross Sorkin the other day at CNBC noted that CEOs are refusing to even talk about how Trump is tanking the economy,\u201d Taylor pointed out. \u201cThink about the fact that he’s ruining these companies, putting them in danger from high inflation, but no CEO is willing to speak up about it. Why? Because they privately tell Andrew Ross Sorkin that they’re scared of being attacked by the president. So the fear campaign is working to a certain extent \u2014 it’s making folks afraid to go up against Trump, because even if these lawsuits won’t be won, they’re just worried about having to be sued in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cThat’s why the Trump administration is doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Taylor also argued that Trump\u2019s policy of instilling fear has turned the Republican-controlled Congress into a rubber stamp for the president, even though GOP lawmakers by and large personally dislike the president.<\/p>\n

“So, you want to know why people self-censor?\u201d Taylor wrote for The iPaper. \u201cIt is situations like mine. Trump and his acolytes realize they don\u2019t need to arrest everyone, they just need to make enough public examples that everyone else decides speaking up isn\u2019t worth the cost.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I\u2019ve been texting with some of those elected GOP leaders over the past few weeks, urging them to follow suit, to speak out. I know they\u2019re appalled by Trump. When he was threatening genocide, they said so \u2013 to me, in private messages. But not one of them has spoken out publicly. In some ways, I understand why, because I\u2019ve seen what speaking out costs. But what they don\u2019t get is that their silence is making it worse for them, not better. Intimidation is a vicious cycle. As soon as you cower, the current grows stronger. The ones doing the intimidation face less resistance, realize their tactics are working, and double down. Unfortunately, the numbers have proven this to be the case in America.”<\/p>\n

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