Democrats have clearly settled on a new line of attack to push back against Trump’s crackdown on crime. The new talking point is that Trump is laying the groundwork to somehow use the military to interfere with the midterms and even the next presidential election.
Remember how many times Democrats and the media accused others of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ over the last few years? Good times.
CNN helped to lay the groundwork for this earlier this week by putting out this story.
From the report:
When President Donald Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month, the topic was the weighty issue of ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But at one point, Trump took a provocative diversion into domestic politics.Zelensky noted that, in his country, the law doesn’t allow for elections during periods of martial law.“So you say during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump responded. “So let me just say, three and a half years from now – so you mean, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”Laughter ensued. Trump wondered aloud what the “fake news” would do with his comment.But increasingly, Democrats aren’t laughing.A growing number of them are arguing Trump will do something to either try to cancel or commandeer elections to keep his hold on power.That might seem ridiculous to some. Trump hasn’t explicitly said he plans to cancel elections, and he said last month he would “probably not” run for a third term, which the Constitution forbids anyway. But the president has certainly floated such possibilities before and done plenty of anti-democratic things.
CNN’s Jake Tapper picked up that ball and ran with it, highlighting Illinois Governor Pritzker’s related comments.
Later in the week, Pritzker repeated this on MSNBC and got zero pushback from Jen Psaki. Pritzker is actually suggesting that Trump bringing the National Guard to Chicago to help deal with crime is about election interference.
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth somehow managed to repeat this line and even connected it to the strike on the cartel vessel this week.
We’re witnessing the birth of a narrative in real time.
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