‘I worked for Donald Trump and fear what he’ll do next – here are my four predictions’

A former senior White House official has cautioned that the next chapter of Donald Trump’s presidency could trigger mounting global instability, suggesting that domestic political setbacks may drive the US president towards increasingly aggressive overseas action. Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security throughout Trump’s first term, has argued that troubles on the home front could push the US president into taking more confrontational steps on the world stage. Writing in The i, Miles warned that declining approval ratings and mounting political pressure could leave the president “distracted, embattled and very likely humiliated”…