Nightmare Possibility ~ How Trump will remain President after he loses 2020 Election

[Lummy]

Cohen’s comments may seem hyperbolic, but they are worth taking seriously.

They are ridiculous, as usual based on nothing more than what democrats themselves would like to do. Trump's off-the-cuff remark to rile them apparently caught the soft spot in their heads, and now exoticks acts like God wrote in one of them. LOL.

It would help tremendously if democrats did not constantly operate outside the law as if they don't actually live here.

[DGUtley]

June 2019



'Facing potential legal jeopardy from ongoing investigations Trump might reasonably conclude that staying in office is the only way to avoid being indicted'

And this Read is before the Ukraine Conspiracies that got Trump impeached and continued transgressions



How Trump Could Lose the Election and Remain President

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...ain-president/

A step-by-step guide to what might happen if Trump refuses to concede.

At the end of his congressional testimony in February, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, floated a nightmarish possibility.
“Given my experience working for Mr. Trump,” Cohen said, “I fear that if he loses in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power.”


Cohen’s comments may seem hyperbolic, but they are worth taking seriously.

In the aftermath of 2018, Trump told reporters, “Republicans don’t win, and that’s because of potentially illegal votes.”



In a 2016 presidential debate, Trump refused to say whether he would accept defeat. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” he declared.

Since that election, Trump has routinely said that his popular vote defeat was the product of “millions and millions” of illegal ballots.


So what would it look like if Trump refused to concede?

Is there really a way he could stay in office?
It’s unlikely.

For starters, successful autocrats rarely lose elections.

“They take steps to rig it well in advance,” said Steven Levitsky, a comparative political scientist at Harvard University and the coauthor of How Democracies Die.

They pack electoral authorities, jail opponents, and silence unfriendly media outlets. America’s extremely decentralized electoral system and powerful, well-funded opposition makes this very difficult to pull off.
The U.S. also lacks the kind of politicized military that lets some discredited autocrats, like Venezuela’s Nicholás Maduro, hang on.

“I can’t imagine the military accepting an effort to turn them into a partisan arm of the executive,” said Robert Mickey, a political scientist at the University of Michigan who researches the history of authoritarianism in the American South.


But while nationwide cheating may be impossible, the Republican Party has proven more than willing to violate democratic norms where it has local control, and not every powerful institution is as neutral as the military.

There is a sequence of events, each individually plausible, that would allow Trump to remain president despite losing the election—breaking American democracy in the process.

“I think we know that Trump will certainly, no matter what the result is, be likely to declare that there was fraud and that he was the rightful victor,” said Joseph Fishkin, a law professor at the University of Texas who studies elections.



Let’s assume that Fishkin is right. Here’s what could keep Trump in power.

2. Trump claims fraud, and Republicans back him up.

Hopefully, we won’t have to. Trump may lose decisively, rendering his claims of foul play empty.

He may win.

Or he may lose a tight race and cry foul, but still ultimately accept defeat.

In the aftermath of the midterms, for example, Trump groused about fraud without seriously contesting the outcome.

Trump, of course, wasn’t on the ballot in 2018.
Losing in 2020 would be far more personal.
But even if Trump refused to concede, it doesn’t mean he’d manage to remain in office.

John Roberts has worried publicly about the credibility of the Supreme Court.

It seems unlikely that he would “save” Trump from a less-than-ambiguous electoral defeat.

Democratic governors in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin form a formidable roadblock against local Republican power grabs. Faced with incontrovertible evidence that Trump lost—and no plausible pathway to mess with the outcome—Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Mike Pence would probably tell Trump to pack his bags.



And if Trump still refused to go?

“I’m not sure which branch it would be, but it must be the case that somebody would be responsible for taking one elbow and somebody would be responsible for taking the other elbow,” Carey said.

“I can imagine the feet going kind of crazy.

But I like to think that it would be without too much damage to anyone.”

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[Tahuyaman]

Nightmare Possibility ~ How Trump will remain President after he loses 2020 Election

Only idiots buy into these silly theories.

[Tahuyaman]

....If Trump loses the election he probably isn't going to overthrow the government. Get a grip folks...

He "probably" isn't? That suggests you are somewhat buying into this idiocy.

[bulletbob]

whats next will the op claim trump is a alien from the planet Zoldar. and bernie sanders is a conservative.

[stjames1_53]

It's lies like this that keep the native democrats riled up.
We need to put them back on the reservation. They've obviously wander too far off the res.

[stjames1_53]

Nightmare Possibility ~ How Trump will remain President after he loses 2020 Election


Only idiots buy into these silly theories.

A new level of impeachment.
"Let's impeach Trump for what we think he's gonna do!!" .................lol and jus' dammmmmmmmmmmn

[MMC]

LMAO.....this is what you get from those that run out into the street and scream at the sky.....all due to Trump.


Casting spells on Trump didn't work. So its make up $#@!.

[patrickt]

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Mental illness is a terrible thing. Democrats, a political cartel, are becoming more and more deranged as they fail to find any criminal acts on the part of President Trump and are constantly forced to cover the criminal acts of cartel members.

[hanger4]

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This ^^ is as stupid as the ridiculous right's conspiracy trash during the last years of Obama's presidency.