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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms (CNN reporting it too!)
The Atlantic ^ | September 23, 2026 | Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Michael Scherer

Posted on 09/25/2026 5:12:17 PM PDT by C210N

Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school together as teenagers. In 2022, Ticktin helped Trump sue Hillary Clinton. This year, he pushed Trump to secure a pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado clerk convicted of charges related to tampering with election equipment.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantic; cc; dufearporn; michaelscherer; midterms; tdstrollthread; yvonnewingettsanchez

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I NEVER watch fake-news CNN, however I make exception one time. I highly recommend watching Jack Tapper's report, talking about the Atlantic article, mentioning Tina Peters and Wayne Allyn Root, and others. Give them the view, they have so few, they'll notice that THIS article is a boost, while all their other articles are 'crickets'.

Advisers urge Trump to declare national emergency, seize federal control of the midterm

1 posted on 09/25/2026 5:12:17 PM PDT by C210N
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To: C210N

Trump just needs to suspend use of the mail for ballots, and shut down the Internet on election night and beyond to limit the cheating. Some executive order already covers this.


2 posted on 09/25/2026 5:18:34 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: C210N

Many think we are headed toward martial law before Trump’s term ends anyway, given how every day gets weirder and weirder, things become more violent and chaotic, and the world moves faster toward wars on many fronts. We shall see.


3 posted on 09/25/2026 5:19:03 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: C210N

one title claims its supporters...the other says its advisers...

the liars can’t even get their stories straight....


4 posted on 09/25/2026 5:24:49 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: C210N

Opinions are like aholes.


5 posted on 09/25/2026 5:26:03 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Whatever Works

They have been claiming this forever...i remember the loons on the left and their mouthpieces in the media claiming he was going to invoke martial law on 4/20/2025.....

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/17/could-trump-invoke-insurrection-act-and-what-powers-would-that-give-him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4sh8SDGf8

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-may-impose-martial-law-type-order-on-april-20-what-we-know-8162828


6 posted on 09/25/2026 5:28:16 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Dr. Franklin

Too late. Voting by mail has already started in twelve states. Five more start next week.

And the Internet is not getting shut down.

Willing to wager on this.


7 posted on 09/25/2026 5:29:24 PM PDT by Fury
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To: God luvs America

Even a broken (24 hour) clock is right twice a day. All I’m saying is it could happen ... For many reasons.


8 posted on 09/25/2026 5:31:25 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: Dr. Franklin

There is ZERO reason for anyone to vote by mail. Covid was 6 yrs ago, its over, move on! Obama won twice with people voting in person, so did Trump his first term, if you want to vote, go vote in person like it always used to be before China created covid to screw with our economy


9 posted on 09/25/2026 5:31:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Fury
Too late. Voting by mail has already started in twelve states. Five more start next week.

The issue isn't when voting by mail starts. It's when it stops.

And the Internet is not getting shut down.
Willing to wager on this.


The Internet has a kill switch, and POTUS can throw it by claiming national security. I don't think Trump wants to lose the midterms and get impeached again. I think he throws that switch and forces had counts of ballots and physical records of how that count was recorded.
10 posted on 09/25/2026 5:35:10 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: C210N

This is just my opinion, based on my reading of the election clause and how previous elections have been handled:

Election Day is a one-day event, and while they can cheat, eventually (even in CA) the ballots are counted and a winner is announced. No state or federal laws allow for “do-overs” if someone doesn’t like the way the election was handled. It’s a one-time thing and that’s why Mike Pence claimed his hands were tied by the Constitution. You can hate him all you like, but he was right about that - just go read Article 1, Section, 4, Clause 1 for yourself. You either follow the election law or you don’t, and Pence was not going to go extra-constitutional and make up stuff.

My point is: when Trump announces something weeks or months in advance, they have time to get a federal judge to issue an injunction against it. But if he does anything on election day, they can’t use that trick. No state or county has ever held a presidental election re-do and legal scholars say they cannot. The only congressional election re-do in recent history was 2019 in North Carolina after a ballot-harvesting scandal.

It’s possible - but highly unlikely. More likely is some judge might be butthurt over actions taken on election day but won’t have the ability to change the outcome or order a re-do.


11 posted on 09/25/2026 5:37:24 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Dr. Franklin

*hand counts of ballots...


12 posted on 09/25/2026 5:37:43 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: C210N

The Atlantic and CNN get their Democrat Party talking points from the same place.


13 posted on 09/25/2026 5:45:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

I’m thinking there will be a higher than normal number of voting by mail occurring well in advance of the election date, and less that rolls in after the election date.

Thankfully, several of our data centers are connected by fiber that we own and that goes through our facilities (with no co-tenants) that we also own. So for that little slice of the network world, the intranet as our network group sees it (but the Internet to our user base) will continue to run.


14 posted on 09/25/2026 5:48:11 PM PDT by Fury
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To: C210N

Elections are run by the states and administered by county officials. The feds not only have no authority to suspend elections, they have no conceivable mechanism for doing so.

I do not believe in the omnipotence of Truth Social.


15 posted on 09/25/2026 5:48:20 PM PDT by sphinx
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“I think he throws that switch and forces hand counts of ballots and physical records of how that count was recorded.”
They had better have poll watchers in place before the switch is thrown…..Then record the screams and chaos when the Islamocommie party fraudsters realize they are screwed…..LOLLLL!
If the demoncrats can stop all counting at midnight PST and blame a busted H2O pipe, then republicans throw the internet kill switch.


16 posted on 09/25/2026 6:03:09 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: sphinx

What happened in 2020?

If you accept that bidEn won fair and square, and Trump’s insistence it was stolen is not true, okay, what you say is justifiable.

OTOH, if you know that 2020 was indeed stolen, Trump is absolutely correct now for 6 years insisting this. That Sydney Powell, Guiliani, Lindell, Tina Peters and so on are correct, this is Treason. It was a an attack on this Republic. It is an act of War. And, very importantly, it is actionable by the military.

If the latter case you can accept, then consider that Trump is already laying the case for EO’s 14248 and 14399 (USPS on mail-in ballots) and EO 13848 (from Sept 2018, fully in force, recently renewed last month), Foreign interference in a domestic election, then not as POTUS but as CIC, Trump can indeed declare a national emergency with respect to elections, impenetrable by the judiciary at any level, and only overturnable by 2/3 of both houses of congress.


17 posted on 09/25/2026 6:06:37 PM PDT by C210N
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To: Dr. Franklin

What other authoritarian steps would you like for him to take afterwards?


18 posted on 09/25/2026 6:42:55 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: sphinx; All
Elections are run by the state and administered by county officials. The feds not only have no authority to suspend elections, they have no conceivable mechanism for doing so.

The Feds have exclusive jurisdiction over the US Postal Service and regulating the Internet, which started as a military network and clearly crosses state and international boundaries in sending data. When the states choose to rely on the USPS or the Internet to run their elections, they must submit to federal regulations that govern them. Remember, elections must be fair, but they aren't required to be perfect. If Trump takes executive action which affects the election for all unreceived ballots, how can it be proved that the undelivered ballots would have benefited the Rats?
19 posted on 09/25/2026 6:52:00 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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What other authoritarian steps would you like for him to take afterwards?

When the chit hits the fan and Trumps suspends habeas corpus the first person on the plane to GITMO must be the traitor John Roberts.
20 posted on 09/25/2026 6:57:43 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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