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#Trump & his enablers are staging a coup.
- Refusal to recognise Biden victory
- Disallowing transition funds
- Delaying vote certification with lawsuits
- Inducing state legislatures to ignore vote and name their own electors
- Seizing control of military
Golf = distraction https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1325922787899404295
- Refusal to recognise Biden victory
- Disallowing transition funds
- Delaying vote certification with lawsuits
- Inducing state legislatures to ignore vote and name their own electors
- Seizing control of military
Golf = distraction https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1325922787899404295
"Unable to overtake his opponent in the polls, Donald Trump decided months ago to run against the election itself."
"Troops taking possession of ballots...extreme, shocking development...the sort of thing you see in authoritarian states like Russia” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/how-trump-could-attempt-coup/616954/
"Troops taking possession of ballots...extreme, shocking development...the sort of thing you see in authoritarian states like Russia” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/how-trump-could-attempt-coup/616954/
November 14th MAGA march being promoted by some deeply unsavoury types. https://twitter.com/DLamontJenkins/status/1325933402390994945
Trump is trying to form an autocracy-in-exile, an alternative America in which he is the rightful leader robbed of power by corrupt elites.
“Democracy works only when losers recognize that they have lost. That will not happen here". https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/7/21554114/trump-election-2020-voter-fraud-challenge-recount-biden
“Democracy works only when losers recognize that they have lost. That will not happen here". https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/7/21554114/trump-election-2020-voter-fraud-challenge-recount-biden
"The 14th Amdmnt : if states are engaged in open rebellion against the Constitution & the USA, they can be declared to be “insurrectionist” states & blocked from having their Electoral College votes count."
Article all over the right-wing internet :
https://www.google.com/search?q=SAVE+THE+REPUBLIC%3A+Trump+may+invoke+the+Fourteenth+Amendment+to+strip+Electoral+College+votes&rlz=1CAVUZL_enFR916FR916&oq=SAVE+THE+REPUBLIC%3A+Trump+may+invoke+the+Fourteenth+Amendment+to+strip+Electoral+College+votes
Article all over the right-wing internet :
https://www.google.com/search?q=SAVE+THE+REPUBLIC%3A+Trump+may+invoke+the+Fourteenth+Amendment+to+strip+Electoral+College+votes&rlz=1CAVUZL_enFR916FR916&oq=SAVE+THE+REPUBLIC%3A+Trump+may+invoke+the+Fourteenth+Amendment+to+strip+Electoral+College+votes
Trump is firing up his base https://twitter.com/lacey9020/status/1326134211573637122
"Frankly, he can do a lot of damage, by destabilizing every major agency, by firing a whole series of senior leaders," Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday." https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/donald-trump-transition-joe-biden-presidency/index.html
Fascinating thread on the issues of transition of power and the ‘after’ https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1325968870352408576
What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?
A @TEDTalks From @VanJones68
A @TEDTalks From @VanJones68
- He fired his Pentagon chief who refused to deploy troops against protesters
- Replaced him with a more pliable acolyte
- AG William Barr in highly unusual meeting with McConnell
- Authorization of his U.S. attorneys to probe 2020 voter fraud... Next? https://twitter.com/Gopgotnothin4me/status/1326182849356181504
- Replaced him with a more pliable acolyte
- AG William Barr in highly unusual meeting with McConnell
- Authorization of his U.S. attorneys to probe 2020 voter fraud... Next? https://twitter.com/Gopgotnothin4me/status/1326182849356181504
When you have a shrinking base that requires MORE to “rile up” (see, e.g. white nationalists, QAnon) yet not enough to deliver votes, enter the three “Rs”:
RACIALIZATION
RESENTMENT
*RIGGING* https://twitter.com/FabienneCASSAGN/status/1326182991895408642
RACIALIZATION
RESENTMENT
*RIGGING* https://twitter.com/FabienneCASSAGN/status/1326182991895408642
Here’s the maths :
How Trump can stay in power mathematically using mere doubt : https://twitter.com/MSINGHJD/status/1326210855567040512
How Trump can stay in power mathematically using mere doubt : https://twitter.com/MSINGHJD/status/1326210855567040512
And here is @SecPompeo 's ADMISSION that the Trump administration :
- are biding their time
- slowing the count
- they will then name their own GOP-friendly electors
Pompeo : "A smooth transition... to a second Trump term" https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1326229085278842880
- are biding their time
- slowing the count
- they will then name their own GOP-friendly electors
Pompeo : "A smooth transition... to a second Trump term" https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1326229085278842880
For a legal opinion on what Republicans are doing (stalling) & what they can get away with (a coup) :
“If it succeeded, it would be a coup,” said Charles Fried, a Harvard Law professor and former US solicitor general in the Reagan administration. https://twitter.com/Desiree_Ahgudo/status/1326264111840288769
“If it succeeded, it would be a coup,” said Charles Fried, a Harvard Law professor and former US solicitor general in the Reagan administration. https://twitter.com/Desiree_Ahgudo/status/1326264111840288769
Trump could have GOP-controlled states like Pennsylvania & Georgia overrule the voters and award their combined 36 electoral votes to the president
Such a move would surely be challenged by the Sup. Court which has a conservative majority by a 6-3 margin https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-we-will-win-election-as-gop-seeks-options-to-block-president-elect-joe-biden-from-taking-white-house/ar-BB1aScZ6?ocid=st
Such a move would surely be challenged by the Sup. Court which has a conservative majority by a 6-3 margin https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-we-will-win-election-as-gop-seeks-options-to-block-president-elect-joe-biden-from-taking-white-house/ar-BB1aScZ6?ocid=st
Once again, @adamboultonSKY and @SkyNews are starting to ask difficuly questions and seek clarification from those who are enabling what many believe to be a #TrumpCoup https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667
Very important thread :
Although everything currently unfolding has been predicted in advance, denialism continues to flourish. People are drawing incorrect conclusions with regard to Trump’s strategies & discounting the crisis before us. #TrumpCoup https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326260536586153984.html
Although everything currently unfolding has been predicted in advance, denialism continues to flourish. People are drawing incorrect conclusions with regard to Trump’s strategies & discounting the crisis before us. #TrumpCoup https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326260536586153984.html
