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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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DEC. История в лицах. PDP-1 (I)
Памяти Кеннета Олсена, родившегося в этот день ровно 100 лет назад Уже глубоко за полночь 1 декабря 1959 года, а именно в 1:30, едва Лоис Андерсон уложила спать третьего, младшего ребенка в семье, раздался телефонный звонок. Из отеля «Статлер Хилтон» в Бостоне Харлан Андерсон позвонил супруге, предупредив о том, что не сможет приехать ночевать домой: прототип PDP-1, исправно работавший в стенах DEC, по известному закону подлости отказывался работать в выставочном зале. До открытия компьютерной конференции оставалось менее восьми часов...
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The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney #Kurt #Olsen, who is now working in the White House directly under the president.The document from FBI Special Agent #Hugh #Raymond #Evans says federal law enforcement agencies launched a
“criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged during the ballot-counting process in Fulton County “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
That investigation was sparked by Olsen
-- who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a
“Stop the Steal” movement
that was largely rejected by courts across the country.He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for
“false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions”
in support of Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn her loss in the 2020 race for Arizona governor.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-georgia-election-office-raid-trump-lawyer-b2917794.html -
The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney #Kurt #Olsen, who is now working in the White House directly under the president.The document from FBI Special Agent #Hugh #Raymond #Evans says federal law enforcement agencies launched a
“criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged during the ballot-counting process in Fulton County “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
That investigation was sparked by Olsen
-- who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a
“Stop the Steal” movement
that was largely rejected by courts across the country.He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for
“false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions”
in support of Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn her loss in the 2020 race for Arizona governor.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-georgia-election-office-raid-trump-lawyer-b2917794.html -
The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney #Kurt #Olsen, who is now working in the White House directly under the president.The document from FBI Special Agent #Hugh #Raymond #Evans says federal law enforcement agencies launched a
“criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged during the ballot-counting process in Fulton County “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
That investigation was sparked by Olsen
-- who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a
“Stop the Steal” movement
that was largely rejected by courts across the country.He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for
“false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions”
in support of Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn her loss in the 2020 race for Arizona governor.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-georgia-election-office-raid-trump-lawyer-b2917794.html -
The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney #Kurt #Olsen, who is now working in the White House directly under the president.The document from FBI Special Agent #Hugh #Raymond #Evans says federal law enforcement agencies launched a
“criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged during the ballot-counting process in Fulton County “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
That investigation was sparked by Olsen
-- who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a
“Stop the Steal” movement
that was largely rejected by courts across the country.He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for
“false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions”
in support of Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn her loss in the 2020 race for Arizona governor.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-georgia-election-office-raid-trump-lawyer-b2917794.html -
The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney #Kurt #Olsen, who is now working in the White House directly under the president.The document from FBI Special Agent #Hugh #Raymond #Evans says federal law enforcement agencies launched a
“criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties” alleged during the ballot-counting process in Fulton County “were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”
That investigation was sparked by Olsen
-- who worked closely with Trump’s campaign in 2020 to challenge election results as part of a
“Stop the Steal” movement
that was largely rejected by courts across the country.He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for
“false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions”
in support of Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn her loss in the 2020 race for Arizona governor.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-georgia-election-office-raid-trump-lawyer-b2917794.html -
An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that
a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga.,
was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration
and relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.The unsealing of the affidavit in Fulton County is likely to raise more questions
about the Trump administration’s use of the F.B.I. and Justice Department to revive old, largely disproved claims about the 2020 election in the state, which Mr. Trump narrowly lost.“The FBI criminal investigation originated from a referral sent by #Kurt #Olsen, Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” the affidavit said.
Mr. Olsen played a central role in Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election,
including speaking to the president multiple times on Jan. 6, 2021.
He has continued to push false claims about elections,
and was recently appointed to a key role in the Trump administration.
Many of the claims in the affidavit refer to long-held
— and consistently debunked
— conspiracy theories about elections in Georgia,
including arguments about fraudulent and duplicate absent ballots,
election machine tabulator tapes and missing ballot images….
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=154247 -
Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.
“We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”The president has no power over federal elections,
and the US constitution is not ambiguous on the matter.
Article I, section 4 of the document gives states the power to run elections.
Congress, the constitution says, can pass nationwide rules for federal elections.Nonetheless, Trump and his allies have suggested the president may still be able to wield some kind of emergency power to take control of the electoral process.
“The president’s authority is limited in his role with regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States
– as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have,”
#Cleta #Mitchell, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally said on a podcast interview last year.
⚠️“Then, I think maybe the president is thinking he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”Declaring a national emergency unlocks about 150 statutory powers for the president, including things like shutting down radio stations, suspending certain military regulations, and to sanction foreign countries.
But none of those powers “even come close to giving the president any authority over elections”, Weiser said.
“The president has zero emergency powers over elections.”The concern about the president using emergency powers has only been amplified by the presence of #Tulsi #Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at the Fulton county raid.
Gabbard, whose presence as an intelligence official on a domestic matter has caused widespread outrage, is said to be investigating voting equipment and foreign interference.Among others, Gabbard is briefing Mitchell and #Kurt #Olsen, another lawyer who was involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, on her investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Mitchell declined to comment on those briefings, but said she understood Trump’s comments to be more about the need to change federal voting laws.
“All of the election statutes need significant revision, updating, and reform. And many of us are working on that,” Mitchell said in an email. “Clearly there are far too many election officials nationwide who treat the law as optional suggestions. And have instituted procedures that are contrary to law. That happened in spades in 2020 and is all too common every election. Sloppy, poor administration and intentional disregard of basic statutory requirements. We see it everywhere.”There is no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 or in any other election.
The White House press secretary, #Karoline #Leavitt, has framed Trump’s comments similarly.
Trump subsequently undercut those efforts to downplay his comments,
criticizing Democratic cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, saying:
🔥“If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”Beyond unspecified actions to take control of state election processes, there are other pathways for Trump to try to interfere in the election process.
#Steve #Bannon, the influential conservative personality and former Trump strategist, has called for Trump to deploy ICE agents at the polls.
Such an effort would violate a federal law that prohibits federal troops from being at the polls “unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States”.
❌“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.
We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again,”
Bannon said on his podcast on Tuesday.
“And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”The Trump administration has already shown its willingness to use emergency powers to try to expand the president’s authority.
Last spring, the Trump administration invoked the
💥"Alien Enemies Act",
an 18th-century law that allows the government to deport immigrants without full due process.The United States, the government argued, was subject to an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Federal judges have since blockedthat order and expressed skepticism it is a legitimate invasion.
Trump has also claimed he has emergency powers to impose tariffs, though the supreme court appears poised to reject that argument.Part of the reason Trump is talking about nationalizing elections now may be to try to get the public to accept an idea that is obviously illegal.
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The countdown for Endrohr Apokalypse is on!
The seven pillars of the brutalistic exhibition space are occupied by the Tailpipe Candelabrums (Formation Endrohr Apokalypse): tailpipes from the local tuning scene replace the seven trumpets of the Bamberg Apocalypse. From them unfold the sounds of trained bodies under extreme stress – soundscape that intertwines physical optimization, technical intensification and sacred proclamation.
With works created especially for the exhibition, the show explores parallels between technology and theology: from ritualised practices and promises of salvation to the question of how technical systems are increasingly taking on functions that were previously reserved for religious orders.
🗓 Final weekend
🎉 Finissage: January 21 with Diskopeter
📍 Kunstverein Ingolstadt#EndrohrApokalypse #Olsen #KunstvereinIngolstadt #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #Brutalism #Autostadt #Technology #Theology #Apocalypse #Diskopeter
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🚨💥 Andreas Skov Olsen to Glasgow Rangers - DONE DEAL ✔️
Total agreement has been reached with VfL Wolfsburg. Loan with an option to buy for €10m in the summer. A medical is scheduled for Thursday. He has already departed from Wolfsburg.
Skov #Olsen rejected several other options, as he is keen on the #RangersFC project. Exclusive news, official in the next 48 hours.
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Zwei Lesungen mit Texten von Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Unter dem Motto „Dass wir Weihnachten nicht wie Karneval feiern“ steht eine Hüsch-Weihnachtslesung mit dem Rezitator Jörg Zimmer…
##Duisburg Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Duisburg #["Moers"] #acht #Deutschland #Germany #HannsDieterHüsch #Jörg #Kley #Moerser #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Olsen #Rezitator #Texten #Weihnachten #Zimmer
https://www.europesays.com/de/588127/
