There's absolutely no legal or political precedent for it. 6 to certify President-elect Joe Biden's win.Ĭould it happen? No, experts say. It could even stop members of Congress from coming to work on Jan. Flynn has suggested the military could force states to rerun elections. Former Trump national security adviser Michael T. It would implement and enforce curfews, keep people in their homes. What this would do: Trump would put the military in charge. Democracies are fragile, even ours."īut even if Trump could do any of the things he might be entertaining, they wouldn't actually change the election results: Here's what he's mulling, according to Washington Post reporting, and why experts say these efforts won't get him what he wants. "You cannot normalize extrajudicial action outside the rule of law and believe democracy will hold. "This is really dangerous stuff to start playing with," said Rachel Kleinfeld, a national security expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The answer is no, he can't do this stuff, say various national security and election law experts.īut even if these maneuvers aren't in the president's tool kit, it's dangerous for him to talk about them in a way that risks normalizing them - let alone in Oval Office meetings, said nearly every expert The Fix spoke with. They are truly on the side of our Country.Could President Donald Trump declare martial law, or seize voting machines, or try to otherwise steal the election by force in his last month in office? Any of those would be an extreme escalation of Trump's already unprecedented strong-arm tactics in his effort to overturn the election results. Trump Jr.'s tweets were likely a response to his father's tweet at 2:38 p.m., which did not mention the rioting: "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. "They will try to f*** his entire legacy on this if it gets worse." "This his one you go to the mattresses on," Trump Jr. texted Meadows, "He's got to condem this shit. In a text confirmed by CBS News, Donald Trump Jr. 6, too, after protesters had breached the Capitol at around 2 p.m. And we need to lay out the best case for each state."
We are getting a lot of members on board.
I would like to meet with Rudy Giuliani again. "Good morning, Mark, I'm here in DC," Greene wrote on Dec. 31, 2020, although it's not clear from the records whether Meadows responded. Greene also texted Meadows ahead of January 6, on Dec. Absolutely no excuse and I fully denounce all of it, but after shut downs all year and a stolen election, people are saying that they have no other choice. But when people try everything and no one listens and nothing works, I guess they think they have no other choice. Antifa was mixed in the crowed and instigated it, and safely people followed. "I don't think that President Trump caused the attack on the Capitol. "I'm sorry nothing worked," she continued. Meadows turned over his text messages to the January 6 committee probing the assault and then declined to cooperate further with the committee.
Greene also told Meadows "we think" the people who assaulted the Capitol on January 6 "are Antifa" dressed like Trump supporters. That is one of multiple texts Greene sent to Meadows in the post-election period, around January 6, 2021. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!" "In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law," Greene wrote to Meadows on January 17, 2021. Greene testified last week she does not recall whether she encouraged the president to impose martial law. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to tell him some GOP members of Congress had privately suggested former President Trump should declare martial law, according to texts obtained by CBS News and first reported by CNN. Washington - In mid-January 2021, just days before President Joe Biden's inauguration, Republican Rep. Republicans urged Trump to take action on January 6 02:21
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