President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security. Many Republicans wish he wouldn’t.
The president’s speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House, comes amid renewed hostilities with Iran, which are once again driving up fuel prices ahead of an election that most strategists still expect to turn on cost-of-living issues.
“The people I talk to are scared shitless,” said a former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s not scared shitless about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?”
He’s going to start an election security department to oversee elections and have it be part of the executive branch and hence (according to his supreme court, and unitary executive theory) it will be under the control Trump officials.
That’ll be the end of it.
And their first order of business will be to cancel the mid-terms to “save money” and “safeguard against voter fraud”. Then when the lawsuits come, he’ll slip Roberts another $20 and get the court to say that Prez can do that because the Constitution doesn’t explicitly say the words, “POTUS cannot cancel elections”.
That or he’s going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.
So he would be checking off the 24th amendment to the Constitution as yet another amendment to violate. trump is going for the Pokemon method of fascism “Gotta violate them all”.
Can’t wait until I have to shelter ICE agents in my house under the penalty of law in violation of the 3rd amendment. /s