A former official in Donald Trump s White House has shared what the then-president realized too late in his administration that could have chilling consequences if he returns to power.

On Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBC s Morning Joe, former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor said Trump discovered very late in his first term that he had far too many people who went to bed and grew a conscience every night and came back in with the little inklings of a conscience to say no and push back on his most controversial and divisive plans.

Trump doesnt want those people around, said Taylor, who in 2018 anonymously wrote the I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration opinion piece for The New York Times.

The presumptive GOP nominees preference is for that Oval Office to be an echo chamber, he added. Thats what he wants and thats what hell get. And very few people realize hes found ways to make that happen.

Taylor pointed to the lack of consequences to Chad Wolfs unlawful appointment as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security as evidence of that.

Trump learned a very valuable lesson over the lack of fallout over Wolfs appointment and that he can put whoever the hell he wants into these jobs, added Taylor, the author of Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.

Earlier in the interview, Taylor said there were no heroes and only survivors in Trumps first administration. In a second term, its not going to be heroes, its not going to be survivors. Its going to be supplicants and thats by design, he added.