Moments after President Donald Trump tweeted that this year’s election was completely postponed, a wave of responses advised that his public thought be rejected. The Constitution gives Congress the strength to set election dates, Twitter noted, and the Democratic-controlled House would never accept the idea. I couldn’t do it. He didn’t start.
He also reported that the president had announced the assumption as a distraction from other morning news: that the economy at the time a quarter had suffered the worst economic cave in U.S. history, that four million other Americans had implemented for unemployment, and that former Republican presidential candidate Herguy Cain, who assisted Trump’s biggest friend in Tulsa without wearing a mask , had just died of COVID-19.
These Twitterverse experts relied on the strange and persistent theory that the president is playing political chess again in the third dimension, even though he is in free fall lately, cannot read the prepared comments and has consistently shown that he does not perceive the non-easy conditions that he faces. . Don’t be distracted, you advised. Don’t be surprised. Don’t take the bait.
However, despite the merits of the legal arguments presented, the surprise was exactly the right reaction, and the complacency as to the seriousness of the threat posed through the president’s tweet was exactly the same. Because under Trump’s crazy words, his anti-democratic intent was extraordinarily real.
Those who see the Constitution as an obstacle to Trump’s attempts at moves are not very familiar with it. The Constitution explicitly provides congressional surveillance powers that Trump has rejected and ignored. The Constitution explicitly refers to the right to allocate expenses to Congress that Trump has rejected and ignored. The Constitution explicitly prohibits a president from receiving foreign or domestic emoluments, and Trump, however, has. The Constitution states that no person provides assistance or convenience to a foreign enemy, but Trump has done so.
The Constitution was drafted to the greatest extent that we are a country of legislation, yet Trump has worked tirelessly to undermine the rule of law in the United States. It was drafted so that no American is above the law, and yet Trump and his accomplices, such as Attorney General William Barr and the GOP leader in the Senate, have worked for Trump.
Even the casual observer will have to conclude that Trump, with impunity, has violated the financial legislation of the Crusades, tax legislation, legislation opposed to abuse against women. This is never an aberration for him. That’s what he does. That’s who he is.
But the concern is not limited to the reality that Trump acts daily with contempt for the legislation and the Constitution. Trump’s tweet about the postponement of the election, followed by a minute, once back, stating without a large Apple base that the postal vote created a threat of voter fraud. This is a repeated lie, which was presented through the Attorney General in his recent apple testimony to Congress, even though he was forced to confess that he had no evidence to tell his conclusions.
Trump and Barr are building the predicate to limit postal voting as a component in their efforts to limit access to the polling place. Given the state of the economy, the catastrophic out-of-the-pandemic, and Trump’s systematic questioning of America’s standing on the global point, it has nothing concrete to look at, and its plummeting affects that conclusion. The only option you have right now is to suppress voter turnout and call into question fairness and then election effects.
ISO tripe: Trump is the enemy of the state in American cities. And who’s going to make it logical?
The closure of federal forces to cities to combat dubious or non-existent threats is related to this effort. This creates a premise for martial law decisions later on, which will make voting more challenging for people. Cities with giant democratic populations have been attacked. In Georgia, Tennessee and Wisconsin, to make a variety of only 3 states, we have recently been given clear efforts for other voter repression bureaucracies. It is a tactic that is institutionalized, militarized as opposed to our democracy, through the popular Republican Party.
Trump fears this election not only because most people turn out to prefer him to lose, but because a loss of strength and assertive immunities applicable to the presidency can also at last accuse him of his long-term freedom. A post-Trump era can also be marked through serious legal threats, not only opposed to Trump, but also to Barr and many family members. So, do whatever it takes to win.
We all know, from Russia in 2016, Ukraine in 201 and the GOP’s refusal to vote for the budget of our election this year, that Trump’s team is perfectly willing not to play fair. We know that they see legislation as barriers only to those who do not have the strength to circumvent them. We know Trump is beyond normal suggests that confusion over election results, whether through delays or foreign intervention, voter suppression or poor counts, will give him an opportunity he would be forced to take to challenge classified court announcements.
Thus, the threat posed through Trump’s reflections on the illegal postponement of the election will have to be a concept other than the letter of the law, but Trump’s intention, his stage, and his history. He despises our democracy and cares only for himself. He is helped by others with a non-public interest as close as it is imperative.
On your knees: Solve Roger Stone’s terrible change: don’t let Donald Trump break us, America.
Do you doubt that if Trump could be a dictator, would he be? Do you doubt your intention to lie to the American electorate? Would you dare to reject his contempt for the Constitution given his experience? Are you willing to accept as true with once the voices say, “Trump would never do that, the Republican Party would never do that, they can’t break with that either,” after everything we’ve been through?
If the direct solution to these questions is no, do not take lightly the threats of the pre-spect, as far-fetched or outrageous as they may seem. They reveal this guy for whom and what he stands for: the great threat our democracy has faced over civil war.
David Rothkopf is the host of Deep State Radio and CEO of Rothkopf Group, a media block that produces podcasts on political, clinical and foreign issues. His lacheck book, “Traitor: A Story of America Treason from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump,” will be published in October. Follow him on Twitter: @djrothkopf