Former president Trump is back in the headlines, and once again, it’s for saying something outrageous and, to some (including me), unconscionable.
This time Trump asks whether there should be a new election in light of the disclosures of the ‘Twitter Files’ or whether we should just toss the last election and declare him the winner retroactively.
Trump acknowledges that both of his options are unconstitutional, but he claims that the fraud is so great that it warrants tossing out that dusty old document to right a wrong.
Here’s Trump’s Truth Social post (via Powerline):
Former President Donald Trump reacted to the release of “The Twitter Files” on Saturday by saying, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”Twitter CEO Elon Musk released internal company documents through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election that showed that top officials at the company were in regular contact with Democrats and censored content that Democrats wanted removed.. . . . Trump responded to the release of the files in a series of messages on Truth Social, writing late Friday night: “Wow! That’s a really big story about Twitter and various forms of government Fraud including, specifically, Election Fraud.”“The same level of Fraud took place with the other Big Tech companies, if not even worse (if that’s possible?),” he continued. “We are living in a VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY &, AS THEY ARE SAYING ALL OVER THE INTERNET, ‘NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT & FBI ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT.’ But they’ll keep investigating ‘boxes’ that were legally & openly taken from the W.H.”Trump again commented on the matter Saturday morning, writing: “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?”“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump declared. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Trump has, on occasion, expressed his view that he should be somehow exempt from the Constitution. One of the most memorable was his infamous—made while a sitting president and under oath—statement that the state “Take the guns first, go through due process second.” This is the exact opposite of the meaning of due process, of course, so this statement generated a lot of backlash among even his conservative supporters.
Therefore, it’s relatively unsurprising that Trump would think it’s okay to just toss the Constitution of these United States to achieve his aims.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
I don’t know why I have to say this, but the 2020 election is not going to be “thrown out,” and there will be no new election. As Trump himself acknowledges, there is no Constitutional recourse for him to get a “do over” on 2020.
There is, however, a presidential election coming up in 2024, and it’s not at all clear to me that Trump has any plan to win it.
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