Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.
The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.
These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.
Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.
Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.
Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.
non north American curious: Donnie announced a third term yesterday I think, does this means that Obama can also run? it would be interesting to see it, because from what I see in social media, Obama is loved and missed
Not until anything ‘offical’ happens. It probably won’t happen ‘offically’. He made a ‘joke’ at what used to be a joking correspondence dinner. It’s a nothing burger to get mad at because his supporters will say he’s not serious.
He’s Always been serious just like he’s always been aligned with Nazis but some supporters won’t see it unless it’s a very specific lense.
There gonna say: you are allowed two consecutive terms. Obama already had those.
Dirty trick that should not be able to stand. But this is an authoritarian society we are talking about
Yes, but this third term wouldn’t be consecutive
Nah, keep in kind they’re going to make up the rules as they go. They’re dramatically incompetent, but this should be easy to restrict to Trump only, even for idiots of their kind.
No, Obama can’t run. Only Lumpty Trumpty or any other Republican gets a third term.
If Obama tried to run under this pretense ol’Donnie will have him in prison on Trumped up charges as his first political prisoner.
Also, wouldn’t it be easier to have a puppet run and him VP until a “sudden but debilitating illness” regrettay forcing Annoying Orange to take over again?
VP is also prohibited, would have to be speaker of the house as 3rd in line