[Responsibility2nd]

I have no respect for Giuliani or Byrne. But they're probably right.

[euram]

yes, and if Trump had ordered all Biden voters shoot he would be in prison too. But, Trump did neither of these things or any of the other things that the Media-Dem Party has accused him of “thinking about”.

[hoe_cake]

I don’t put ANYTHING past the corrupt government.

[Responsibility2nd]

Giuliani waited until Flynn and Powell had left the Oval Office and told Trump that their plan would get him impeached, the report said.

 

The thing is... No matter what Trump would or would not do - he was gonna get impeached.

Which of course actually happened.

So. Should Trump have declared Martial Law? I would have supported that. Even though it would not would not have worked.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Trump was not “trying to overturn the election.”

He wanted obvious fraud investigated before the election could be certified.

Algore delayed certification because ofr butterfly ballots and dimpled chads for weeks in 2000.

[OKSooner]

Rudy did The Lord's work taking on the mob the way he did. In the Trump deal, he was frankly the over the hill gang, riding solo. His forte is busting mobsters, not Constitutional law, although if this account is accurate he would be correct.

The Kraken lady, OTOH, is just plain ol' cracked.

[cdcdawg]

He’s probably right. Doing so would have moved us toward a violent split. Not doing so delayed that inevitability. Smart and powerful people need to start planning on it to minimize the suffering.

[Arcadian Empire]

Business Insider is inaccurately portraying Trump as someone who wanted to impose martial law and be a dictator.

It seems like Giuliani doesn’t understand that his statements are being used to promote that false and harmful narrative.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I’ll wait to hear what Byrne actually said and not crap taken out of context or from “anonymous sources.” Business Insider is a leftist outlet.

[DesertRhino]

SO instead, the putsch took power and now we all go to prison instead.

Also, what’s this “if then President Donald Trump had imposed martial law in an effort to overturn the 2020 election results,”

The election results WERE overturned by the putsch. We should never refer to Trump “overturning” the election.

[jdsteel]

I trust business insiders accuracy in reporting as much as I do MSNBC.

[Ezekiel]

if Trump had imposed martial law after the election, 'we would all end up in prison,'

Exactly. Rounded up by the spelling police. Everybody knows that they have no mercy. They would have thrown away the key.

Coming Soon!

[Alberta's Child]

These guys were apparently a voice of reason among a group of zany misfits advising President Trump.

Which sewage treatment plant did Lin Wood emerge from?

[CivilWarBrewing]

On election night and thereafter, President Trump was totally POWERLESS.

Makes one think, doesn't it.

[thecodont]

“outlandish conspiracy theories about voter and election fraud”

Whooooeeeee.

[kiryandil]

Despite his own endorsement of outlandish conspiracy theories about voter and election fraud [like the increase in Democrat "voters" in Ada County [Boise] Idaho from 75,000 in 2016 to 120,000 in 2020 - even though only 24,000 new voters moved to Ada County in those 4 years]

fixed it

[Widget Jr]

First question: When did Trump ever suggest martial law in response to the election? Because he used lawyers, not executive authority.

Despite all the talk over Trump declaring martial law, there is no evidence he actually considered it at all.

[unclebankster]

“I have no respect for Giuliani or Byrne. But they’re probably right.”

I respect Giuliani for giving Trump the proper advice, instead of the “fantasy world views” of Flynn.

Trump would’ve been impeached anyway, but declaring martial law would’ve guaranteed a conviction in the Senate.(they were only 10 Senators short on the phony inciting an insurrection charge)
Besides being an extra or unconstitutional move, it wouldn’t have worked because nobody would’ve followed that order

The conviction would’ve been the end of Trump’s political career.
So it would’ve been a terrible move for Trump & his supporters.
But at the “end of the day” it doesn’t matter because it never happened. IMO asking advice from advisors isn’t impeachable.(the wokecrats probably see it differently, but F them, they’re stupid people.)

[Ben Hecks]

...outlandish conspiracy theories about voter and election fraud.

When I got to this point, I stopped reading.

[enumerated]

This is fake news

[KC Burke]

Bryne’s near-contemporaneous accounts paint Rudy as “not on top of what had occurred.”

We need to quit eating our own and admit that on election eve, Election Day and after the election, President Trump was not on top of what was happening or what could be done about it. That is why he could not get concurrence with Pence as to what action, after fifteen other options might fail, Pence might resort to in a manner he could justify. That is why no ground work was laid for Pence to be the last resort.

Not only did Trump miss the boat, but Free Republic missed the boat. Conservative media missed the boat — in fact a good part of it torpedoed the boat after another part had held a Bon Voyage Party for the boat.

The State Republicans missed the boat. The prognosticators missed the boat. Ask LS if any of the countless prognosticators he was communication with foresaw what was happening in any sort of scale to what occurred.

We simply did not realize that the leftist establishment was ready to destroy the nation — we thought they were still working up to it.

[LS, I ping you as a courtesy as I referred to you by screen-name as an example of those that worked the election heavily.]