Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been ā€œunofficially outsourcedā€ thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title ā€œProject 2025.ā€ It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: ā€œPresident Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,ā€ he said. ā€œPresident Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.ā€

  • Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    And yet not a single person with the power to do anything right now - is doing anything right now.

    Motherfucker is still outright disrespecting our entire system of justice - or whatever is left of it for the rich.

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      Well if they actually punished people when they did something wrong, then it wouldnā€™t look very good for decorum now would it?

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      This is not true at all. There are many very powerful people working very hard to make sure that heā€™s not reelected. That you donā€™t know about it says more about you than it does anyone else. You just arenā€™t paying attention.