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Donald Trump discussed the possibility of imposing martial law to reverse the elections with Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, it was reported in the United States.
According to The New York Times, the president asked Flynn to expand on the idea at a meeting at the White House on Friday. The meeting was the latest surreal twist in Trump’s relentless – and so far unsuccessful – attempt to reverse his loss to Joe Biden.
Reports of the meeting were dismissed as “fake news” and “bad news” by Trump on Twitter.
Still refusing to accept that he lost, Trump called for a mass rally in Washington DC on January 6, the day both houses of Congress will meet to formally confirm Biden’s election.
“Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election,” he tweeted on Saturday. “Big protest in DC on January 6. Be there, it will be wild!”
Flynn, who was pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI during his investigation into Russian election interference in 2016, has become one of the most outspoken supporters of the claim that Biden’s victory was “rigged.”
Undeterred by court after court that rejected legal offers to overturn Trump’s defeat and the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory, Flynn proposed more drastic measures on the conservative political website. Newsmax.
Trump must plan for any eventualities, Flynn said, “because we cannot allow this election and the integrity of our elections to disappear.”
He also suggested that Trump send troops to the swing states he lost to Biden in November. “It could take military capabilities and place it in those states, and basically re-run an election in each of those states.”
The tone of the meeting will set off alarms in America, even if the ideas seem outlandish. Rudy Giuliani, who acted as Trump’s legal advisor, attended the meeting by phone. It is understood that he pressured the Department of Homeland Security to seize the voting machines.
According to sources cited by The New York TimesThe meeting was noisy, with Pat Cipollone, the White House attorney, and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, vigorously rejecting the ideas that were being raised.
Also attending the meeting was Sidney Powell, a lawyer whose outlandish claims about the election, including the suggestion that the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez rigged the US election from the grave, led to Trump’s legal team dropping her. .
Apparently, in Trump’s fold, she was seen as a possible special counsel tasked with investigating the fraud allegations.
The next stage in the electoral calendar is when the House and Senate hold a joint session to count the electoral votes.
The meeting is usually a formality, but Mo Brooks, a congressman from Alabama, has said he will question the outcome. If you can find a senator who does the same, then the outcome will be debated in both houses for up to two hours.
Given that Democrats have a majority in the House and several Republican senators have said they accept the result, there is no chance the election will be annulled.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his foreign intelligence service had been exceptionally important in protecting the country, in remarks made shortly after some accused him of being behind a major attack on US government departments.
Speaking at an event marking 100 years since the founding of the SVR foreign intelligence service, Putin said the agency and other security services were a crucial guarantee of Russia’s “sovereign, democratic and independent development”.
Some international cyber researchers have suggested that Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service may have been behind an unprecedented attack on US government computer systems.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists that Russia was responsible for the attack.
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