These ads are getting more ruthless.
Trump has a plan to stay in the White House if he loses election, former senator says | The IndependentPresident Donald Trump is scheming to retain power in the event of an electoral loss in November, according to a former Senator from Colorado.
The former Democratic senator begins with an allegation that Mr Trump will attempt to retain power through voter suppression. Mr Wirth alleges there is a strategy to suppress voter turnout by purging voters - especially inner-city voters - from registration rolls and to suppress mail-in voting. He also believes physical polling locations will be limited, especially in urban areas, in an effort to create long lines on Election Day and discourage voting.
Mr Wirth's allegations that there has been an effort in Republican-led states to remove people from the voter-roll is accurate.
According to data compiled by Mother Jones, between 2016 and 2018, more than 17 million names have been removed from the voter rolls. While names are removed from voter rolls every year due to deaths or citizens leaving the state, the number of voters removed from the rolls since 2016 has significantly increased.
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Between 2016 and 2018, states on average removed 7.6 per cent of their voters from the rolls. However, the purge in some states went much further.
Indiana purged the greatest number of voters, removing 22.3 per cent of the state's voters from its rolls. Both Virginia and Wisconsin removed 14 per cent, and Maine, Oklahoma and Massachusetts removed between 11 and 12.1 per cent.
Mr Wirth's theory about Mr Trump trying to retain power following the 2020 US election doesn't end at the ballot box, however. He believes that - should the president lose - he will claim the vote was rigged and rely on a complicated gambit involving emergency powers and the compliance of Republican legislators to stay in the White House.
According to Mr Wirth, should Mr Trump lose in a scenario where challenger Joe Biden beats him by "decent but not overwhelming" margins in the swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Mr Trump will declare that the vote was rigged.
He will supposedly blame mail-in ballots and Chinese election interference for the loss and invoke emergency powers to launch a Justice Department investigation into alleged "election hacking" in the swing states.
From there, Mr Wirth claims Mr Trump will stall until 14 December, which is the date when states must appoint their US Electoral College electors. Because the swing states are each controlled by Republicans, Mr Wirth believes the state legislatures will refuse to certify their electors until the election hacking investigation is finished.
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He then claims the Democrats will challenge the investigation and the challenge to the election, which will eventually be taken to the US Supreme Court. Mr Wirth believes the Supreme Court will rule against the Republicans, but will concede that Mr Trump's emergency powers authorise him to continue his investigation. The Supreme Court will also maintain that should the swing states not be able to certify their selectors by 14 December - for any reason - then the Electoral College will have to meet and vote for the president without the swing states included.
Under Mr Wirth's theory, the Electoral College will then meet without the swing states under investigation, and neither candidate will receive enough votes to secure the presidency. According to Mr Wirth, the contested election would then move to the House of Representatives, where each delegation gets to cast one vote towards the presidency.
Since there are more Republican controlled House delegations than Democratic controlled delegations - 26 Republican to 23 Democrats - the Republicans will be the victors of the vote and Mr Trump will remain in office.
...I'm not worried about tRump refusing to leave the White House...it has first rate pest control...
Will be so glad to see the end of that sorry lot.
^ More likely thinking of a way in which he could just cancel the whole bothersome re-election thingy.
i've watched this three times....and i don't think i could explain why....
Do you get a medal for being a famous trumpanzee now?
Oh yes, you do.
If the GOP have their way that will be the only way non-R/Trump voters will be able to cast a ballot.
Farage was in a pub in the UK last weekend, shortly after returning from the same rally.
These things seem to be real 'super spreader' events.
Nigel Farage accused of breaking quarantine rules with pub visit | Nigel Farage | The Guardian
Mary Trump tell-all paints president as a ‘narcissist’ who is ‘lost to his own delusional spin’
Donald Trump and father Fred Trump at opening of Wollman Rink, Nov. 6, 1987.
Dennis Caruso | New York Daily News | Getty Images
Key Points
- CNBC obtained a copy of the forthcoming tell-all family memoir about President Donald Trump written by his niece, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
- Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, writes that her uncle is a textbook narcissist, and that his late father, the real estate developer Fred Trump Sr., was a sociopath.
- The coronavirus pandemic, writes Mary Trump, has revealed President Trump to be a “petty, pathetic little man — ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin.”
Mary Trump book: President is a '''narcissist''' and the son of a '''sociopath'''
I like Mary
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