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Trump Openly Mulls Dystopian Plan for Stealing the Midterm Elections (newrepublic.com)

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President Donald Trump is openly hinting at taking over the midterm elections by declaring a national emergency.

Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning, and said that Trump had the right to declare a national security emergency next month, forcing through photo identification, proof of citizenship, limits on mail-in ballots, and other heavy voting restrictions. Trump seemed to like that suggestion, but didn’t want to tip his hand.

“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.

Trump is afraid of massive Republican losses in November’s midterms, and has been unsuccessfully pushing his allies in Congress to pass the draconian SAVE Act. With that appearing more unlikely each day, Democrats and other Trump critics are raising concerns that he may take drastic action, such as declaring a national emergency and maybe deploying legions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the polls.

In fact, Democrats have been trying for close to a year to get documents from the Department of Homeland Security regarding its policies and memos on sending ICE agents to polls. Agents were seen at polling places in Texas during its May primaries and in California in June, but when Democrats used the Freedom of Information Act to investigate, they were sent useless press clippings.

If Trump tries to invoke national security to take over federal elections, it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits and protests across the country. His repeated, disproven claims about voter fraud and rigged elections suggest that he’ll make the same excuses in November. The question is how to ensure a fair and accurate result that can stand up to his attacks.

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[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

we are so lucky this old fart has dementia

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[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

my solace with every crazy scheme is that he always fucks up everything he touches. waiting for spectacular losing. would interfere with his JD blanket pardon scheme, ala nixon. either way he'll screw himself. party of confederacy only knows failure. like to play soldier, fat fuck?

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

he always fucks up everything he touches

Like he fucked up the 2016 and 2024 elections? He sure seems to have a lot of power for someone that fucks everything up.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah...Americans love to blame Trump for all the power they repeatedly give him.

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[-] alecbowles@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ceuta in Spain was just a trial to see how fired up would be the public reaction. They managed to organize 60,000 young men to crush the border in Spain.

While trump is not in great terms with Mexico gov, he’s certainly in good terms with other fascists in South America. If he pull out something like this on the US land border 2x 3x times bigger would be enough for him to declare national security emergency.

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[-] eurodyne@piefed.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Again…

[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Trump losing to Obama the next election. Such a shit show theater

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[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

That would set off much worse than just protests across the country.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Trump always lies about his accomplishments. He never lies about what he wants to do.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Just so we are clear, taking acts to directly impede the democratic process across the country.

That's High Treason, right?

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Called it six months ago.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so surprised I can't believe this.

[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago

How are you all feeling about Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong's last second loss to Crowley in the Wisconsin primary after five USBs had the "wrong info" and a huge vote dump at the end to give the establishment Dem the win despite trailing massively? Myself, I'm of the opinion we can't trust our elections

[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I haven’t trusted our elections since 2000 when Bush stole Florida. Even as a child it was obvious something was wrong.

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