How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President

[Tahuyaman]

He will go off to a NY or NJ prison.

More TDS.

[Tahuyaman]

We have to see who Biden picks to be President if he is elected. Biden won't stay in office anyways.

He's not going to pick his running mate. She will be picked for him and he'll be told what to say about that pick.

[DGUtley]

More of the scheme to delegitimize the president. Congrats Bo. Just joining all your friends.

[Captdon]

Donald is a sore loser. Assuming he doesn't drop out and he loses, one of these scenarios is more likely than not.

This is some disturbing stuff my friends. Must read!

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-c...pinion-1513975

This is just stupid.

[Peter1469]

The title of the article is misleading. The article itself claims that there are two ways that Trump could maintain power.

For Trump, there are two broad pathways to maintaining power. First, we can already see very clearly a strategy designed to suppress voter turnout with the purging of registration rolls of large numbers of mostly urban voters; efforts to suppress mail-in ballots, which are more necessary than ever, given COVID-19; a re-election apparatus that is training 50,000 poll watchers for the purpose of challenging citizens' right to vote on Election Day; and significant efforts to make in-person voting in urban areas as cumbersome as possible in order to have long lines that discourage people from exercising their voting rights.

None of those are under the Presidents control. Voting districts are suppose to periodically purge rolls. They need to do a better job maintaining them to ensure people who die or move out of the district are removed. Mail in ballots on a large scale is a recipe for massive fraud as we have already covered in a couple of threads recently. I am not sure what the complaint is about long lines in urban areas, most of which are Dem controlled. Add more polling places Dems.

The second pathway to subverting the election is even more ominous—but we must be cognizant of it because Trump is already laying the groundwork for how he can lose the popular vote, and even lose in the key swing states necessary for an Electoral College victory, but still remain president.

This sounds kooky. Let's read further.

This spring, HBO aired The Plot Against America, based on the Philip Roth novel of how an authoritarian president could grab control of the United States government using emergency powers that no one could foresee. Recent press reports have revealed the compilation by the Brennan Center at New York University of an extensive list of presidential emergency powers that might be inappropriately invoked in a national security crisis. Attorney General William Barr, known for his extremist view of the expanse of presidential power, is widely believed to be developing a Justice Department opinion arguing that the president can exercise emergency powers in certain national security situations, while stating that the courts, being extremely reluctant to intervene in the sphere of a national security emergency, would allow the president to proceed unchecked.

Something like the following scenario is not just possible but increasingly probable because it is clear Trump will do anything to avoid the moniker he hates more than any other: "loser."

The book does not appear to be what the article claims. Maybe the movie is. It is a what if history- what if Charles Lindbergh ran against FDR in 1940 and won.

Anyhow, the second claim in the article is kooky. If Trump were to consider using emergency powers it would be to postpone the election because of COVID, not after losing the election. And neither would be Constitutional.

Thread fail.

[zelmo1234]

He will go off to a NY or NJ prison.

Yes that will certainly happen!

If the Bamster and Hillary are not in Prison Trump has nothing to fear, He is child's play when compared to those pros'

He will actually return to NY and will fast become the media darling again as he is certainly not the most conservative fellow and he will be good for ratings.

[Bo-4]

This is just stupid.

Hide & watch - If you think Donnie will go down in defeat without a fight, I've got a dandy bridge and some swampland you'll LOVE!

[Bo-4]

no

Oh YES

[Bo-4]

He will go off to a NY or NJ prison.

Your lips to God's ear ;-)

[pragmatic]

I don't think that you have to worry, Trump will be just fine if he looses the race, he will go off into the sun set.

Agree.