In his new book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," Jonathan Karl writes that Flynn and Powell tried to enlist Trump's post-election appointee Ezra Cohen-Watnick to help overturn the election. Trump Must Have a Diabolical Plan, Officials Assumed."You Play Golf, Right?" Trump Rambled On as Commanders Tried to Interrupt.Intelligence Analysts "Didn't Understand Donald Trump, How Far He Would Go".He could also order, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. "He could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country on his order. "The president has to plan for every eventuality because we cannot allow this election and the integrity of our election to go the way it is,'' Flynn said. And though his December 2 tweet was a retweet, and Flynn never explicitly mentioned martial law, behind the scenes the retired Army general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency pushed Trump campaign lawyers and the president himself to use the military to intervene in the results of the vote.įlynn, in a later Newsmax interview, said that Donald Trump had "options" to maintain the integrity of the election. Flynn had already joined the Trump campaign and its most vociferous lawyer-Sidney Powell-in promoting the wildest conspiracy theories about a stolen election. But it was a very thin thread that we were resting on."įormer President Trump recently denied that he had any intention of deploying the military in January this year after an upcoming book claimed that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was concerned he would attempt a coup or take other illegal action.Trump had granted a full pardon to Michael Flynn, his first national security advisor, just eight days earlier. "And nobody has yet been able to explain why exactly Vice President Pence did the right thing in upholding the constitutional order on that day. "It's an extraordinary thing," Raskin replied. "I mean that's the craziest thing, and I don't want to give Michael Pence, who's, you know, debased himself in a million ways, too much credit here, but like, that's what I'm hearing from you and that's my understanding as well, which is a kind of stomach-dropping realization to come to." Hayes responded to Raskin's comments on Friday, saying: "If Pence had gotten up there that day and say 'I'm rejecting them,' there's no recourse." General Michael Flynn, who had served as Trump's National Security Advisor from January to February 2017, suggested in December 2020 that the then president could declare martial law and re-run the presidential election. Arizona Finds Just 182 Cases of Potential Voter Fraud in 2020.
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