The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab.
“Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.”
Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.
The Chinese government hates the US and, if they interfered successfully, would have done so to get Trump into office, since that would cause the most damage.
Sounds about right, there are a lot of pro-trump anti-democrat content circulating in WeChat…
Seems like they are trying to discourage diasporas from voting for democrats
Huh? It’s our own election system. 2 corrupt parties for a long time. Candidates nobody wants and this is the result
This does concern me frankly. Hopefully its all just his usual limpdick saber rattling. The problem is, if something like this does happen, at this point I don’t trust anybody to stop it. Democrats are too busy playing theater and bending the knee to their corporate overlords to oppose anything Trump does at this point past their usual finger wagging and “almost maybe going to send a sternly worded letter at some point” responses. And if the Supreme Court doesn’t give him the nod to do this he can just, you know, ignore them. Not like he’s faced consequences for that the past… ever.
they succeeded in 2024, with the help elon and the voting machines, DNC is pretty much complicit.
Pretending that Trump didn’t win the election is how you fail to ensure you win the next one, and doom the rest of the world to another MAGA administration.
anything to distract from the “distraction esptein files” and to stop it from getting released any furhter.
so it’s been leaked that they’re “working on” an executive order to declare a national emergency?? for the midterms??? you don’t have to “work on” declaring an emergency!!! it either IS an emergency or it ISN’T.
Dear heaven to think how dumb they think everyone is
wait, everyone might actually BE that dumb
There’s a lot of evidence to shoddily fabricate.
To me “working on it” implies there are things in motion to manufacture that sense of emergence…
Sitouts still think they did the right thing in 2024. Theres the answer for you.
Is Media-Ite a credible source?
activists
The Washington Post thinks that traitorous conspiracies on the right are equivalent to protests and demonstrations by other types of “activist?”
The same Washington Post owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos? I’m shocked!
Oh look, the orange bastard is doing exactly what everybody with a brain knew he was going to do! Too bad 36% of Americans don’t have those. Life must be very difficult for them.
Putin must be ecstatic.
Why?
He destroyed the US.
Getting control of one of the main oppositions to Russian power in the hands of one of the dumbest, weakest, most narcissistic people ever? He’s probably preparing the celebratory champagne enemas and hookers as we speak.
The only emergency I see are the browned pants of the orange hittler…
The flailing around and constant changing of plans is probably just theater. Whatever else happens, they will always flood the zone with shit. Whatever the plan is, the news is only a vague indicator of it.
His MO has been to use “emergency” as a power grab even when nothing gives him any powers over these issues even if he claims an emergency.
Fuck you, you fucking orange turd. If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
Same as ‘think of the (insert impoverished group du jour)…!’
think of the children!
Nah bro, trump does every night while he’s trying to pork melania.
The Constitution is extremely clear that elections are the responsibility of the states, and we just saw the Supreme Court back the Constitution against him.
He tried to use the “Emergency” excuse to justify his tariffs, and SCOTUS didn’t buy it. They aren’t going to buy this emergency either.
How bleak that we have to trust a court that constantly operates in bad faith to save democracy from the guy that hired too many of them.
The Supreme Court should not be trusted.
If we’re both putting forth theories then what’s incorrect about assuming the Supreme Court went against him on tariffs so it would seem “fair” when they back him on stealing elections?
After all, they’ve done this exact scenario before.
3 of them did.
Which proves that he only has three rubber stamps, when he thought he had six.
This was just the first of several direct attacks on clear Constitutional concepts, which he thought he would brute force his way through with bought-and-paid-for operatives on SCOTUS, and it failed badly. That does not bode well for future Constitutional challenges like Birthright Citizenship, State control of Elections, or his future challenge to term limits.
He also immediately promised new tariffs
Cautiously optimistic nodding to your conclusion
They probably will rule that the “emergency” is unconstitutional, but consider how long Trump got away with unconstitutional tariffs before SCOTUS tossed them out, and how long he would need to get away with fucking with election rules to get the election results he wants.
The election issue is a ticking clock, tariffs weren’t. That makes it top priority for quick action by the courts, emergency injunctions, etc.
I’m sat here in Europe watching Trump and his sycophants systematically dismantle American democracy and I’m honestly shocked that they’re being allowed to do it.
I’m assuming it’s the end if he’s allowed to nullify the midterms as he intends, the final remaining shred of democracy will be well and truly gone.
What a sad way to see the “Land of the free” fall.
im sat (and sad) here in europe and worried because eu keeps imitating the us, just much slower
Fun fact: if you’re shocked, that means your model of the world is incorrect. Luckily, you can learn and switch your world-interpreting paradigm to one that works better.
Historical materialism predicts this pretty well. I haven’t been surprised by the US since I became an anarchocommunist.
Yeah, we’ll see IF he does this AND it stands IF people will let it happen. I’m not sure that they (we) will. But it could. But I’ve had so little hope since 2016, and it just got worse in 2024. Still fighting as best as I can, and hoping others will.
Hey, Mr. Stewart. Is it ok to now call it fascism?
And none of that actually gives him any power to do anything like that.
He is not the States.
He’s probably going to wait until closer to November so the courts won’t have time to respond.
Counting down until he’s lying in state.
Even if it were true that China stole the election, how is “something happened 6 years ago” an emergency? He won in 2024, so it can’t be that effective anymore.
It’s our own doing, there is no China in it.
2 corrupt party system did itIt’s an emergency because if he leaves it alone Republicans are going to tank hard in the midterms which will mean he loses power and might even be held accountable for his crimes.
might even be held accountable for his crimes.
Yeah, I’m sure Democrats will get right on that and not just bleat out platitudes about healing and moving on.
might even be held accountable for his crimes.
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Ughh… I hate that the thought of aliens coming directly to my house, handing me a winning lotto ticket, while they simultaneously get struck by lightning twice in a row and get bitten by a shark seems 1000000x more likely to happen than for Trump to ever face consequences for his actions.
If anyone even started that process “judge” Aileen Cannon would jump from the top rope and bodyslam the case shut with a “Trump is immune because I say so” ruling like she’s been doing this entire time.
:(
So just as a bit of hopium. Bitch Cannon could be impeached by congress, if it’s a bad enough wipeout for the Republicans in the midterms I could see some of them turning on Trump and cutting his little network up to make themselves look better. Assuming they don’t decide to go scorched earth and impeach, convict, and execute Trump.
Though more likely they’ll lose the Senate and it gridlocks. Which would still fuck over Trump since then he would basically be locked from passing any laws.
Not that he’s passing many laws now. The 119th congress has been the least productive congress maybe ever. Most of the shit he’s doing is just illegally pretending he has the authority to do the shit, then waiting until someone proves he can’t.
Yep which Congress if flipped could respond to in any number of ways. Anything from refusing to fund fuck all to something as actively malicious as dissolving presidential security. Really my point was moreso that if Congress is retaken Cannon wouldn’t be able to do fuck all, hell if I’m not mistaken she could even be impeached by congress if they were able to scrounge up the required votes.
He will just never get over the fact that he lost in 2020. And he’s willing to make all of America suffer for his butthurt.
He cheated in 16, he cheated in '20 and still lost. Him being a man who has never competed fairly in his life assumed the Dems cheated harder. Turns out the high number of mail in ballots threw off his scheme and he lost. The time to declare a national emergency over voting was in 2016 after he won. The silent majority doesn’t exist. The polls are accurate. He’s a fucking loser who aligned himself with adversaries to steal democracy and fuck this country supremely and make the wealth divide even worse. The fact that the Dems went along with him winning in '24 and didn’t contest it at all despite the statistical anomalies in swing states is just fucking unbelievable. This ass clown is supposed to be in a cell, but he’s the fucking president because Joe and Kamala were fucking spineless. Trump did not win all 7 swing states, and once they nationalize voting, it will be forever rigged, and in Trump’s own words, “you’ll never have to vote again”.
Yeah the guy who cheats against kids in golf is not playing a clean game in a national election. Mean the dude lies like a sidewalk and aome people wonder why he doesn’t do what he promised. Cause he’s a fucking con man, grifter. He’s the guy they’d tar and feather back in the day if he stuck around long enough.
It hurt hurt his feelings bigly. And if anyone, anywhere has ever hurt Donny’s feelings then it is a national emergency.
