Donald Trumpās campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: āI believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,ā ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. āYou will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problemā of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trumpās 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 āshocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructureā revealed by the 2020 election.
These had been hidden, even from him, by a ādeep stateā 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, itās 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 administrationās orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.
I donāt get it, but your logic is usually sound.
Did Pres Biden enable Mr Trump by being imperfect, or not demonstrably adequate so people couldnāt be convinced he was inadequate? Bidenās unhealthy parasocial relationship with Israel was an issue, but aside from what I remember as background noise of forgettable decisions I only think of his presidency as boring and incremental improvement.
Were our expectations of so much more, in retrospect, reasonable? Yeah, we probably all hoped for more than some milquetoast victory lap for a last-term civil servant; but with the dirty money coming in, who else could survive a primary and get onto the ballot as an option?
Biden has the opportunity to arrest, prosecute, and imprison Donald Trump and choose not to go so for his whole four year term.