Provoked by the recent disclosures about Twitter’s actions to suppress reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop materials in 2020, former President Donald Trump made the following comment on the Social Truth platform:
“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. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” Available at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109449803240069864
Trump’s post makes an assertion that is a dangerous, irresponsible assault on the constitutional rule of law that separates the United States from dictatorships and lawless governments.
Nothing in the Constitution states, suggests or implies that any grievance about an election’s outcome (or any other grievance) is sufficient to justify a “termination” or suspension of the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution gives any government official, any government entity, any branch of the Federal Government, or any of the 50 States (individually or collectively) the authority to “terminate” or suspend the Constitution.
Indeed, U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 requires a President-elect to take the following oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Moreover, U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3 requires that all Members of Congress, all federal executive and judicial officers, and all of their State-level counterparts are bound by similar oaths to support the U.S. Constitution. Those oaths of office preclude any Federal or State official from even trying to “terminate” or suspend the Constitution.
Trump’s intemperate and outrageous claim about the “termination” of the Constitution brings to mind the conversation between Sir Thomas More and his son-in-law Roper in Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons” (near the end of Act One). Roper disapproves of Sir Thomas More’s statement that even the Devil is entitled to the benefit of law, and then states he is willing to “cut down every law in England” to get after the Devil. Sir Thomas More responds to Roper:
“Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you —where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down — and you’re just the man to do it — d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.”
Trump is foolish if he thinks that his proposed “termination” of the Constitution would be limited just to overturning the outcome of the 2020 election or scheduling a new Presidential election. Any such “termination” of the Constitution would be a terrible precedent invoked to justify future “terminations,” and would cripple the rule of law in America to the detriment of the rights and liberties of all Americans.
Apart from Trump’s cavalier attitude about the Constitution, his post is self-destructive and politically counterproductive. Democrats and Never-Trumpers have been claiming that Trump is unfit to be President of the United States again. Now his political enemies can simply quote Trump’s post about “terminating” the Constitution and argue to voters in 2024 that Trump’s willingness to “terminate” the Constitution shows that he cannot be trusted to honor and abide by the oath of office required by the U.S. Constitution if he is elected President in 2024.
Finally, Trump’s post also brings to mind Melville’s novel “Moby Dick.” In that novel, Captain Ahab is obsessed with hunting and killing the whale which caused the loss of his leg. Captain Ahab’s obsession results in his death, the destruction of his whaling ship, and the deaths of most of his crew. Trump’s fixation on overturning the results of the 2020 election has reached the level of Captain Ahab’s obsession — doing damage to the campaigns of various Republican candidates in the 2022 elections, threatening to wreak havoc on America’s constitutional rule of law, and giving Democrats ammunition (out of Trump’s own mouth) to argue that he is unfit to be elected President of the United States in 2024.
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The author grossly misunderstands the statement, and the context -which he ignores- makes it clear the message is quite the opposite of what the article purports it to be.
I want to know three things about Hunter Biden:
1. Why did the Saudis give Jared Kushner $2 Billion?
2. Why did the Qataris pay off Jared’s $1.6 Billion mortgage on 666 Fifth Avenue?
3. If we can investigate Biden’s son, why can’t we investigate “Justice” Thomas’s wife?
VOTER FRAUD!!! VOTER FRAUD!!!
According to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Georgia conservative talk show host has been charged by the state of voting illegally nine times while he was still serving out a felony conviction for forgery and theft in Pennsylvania.
Brian K. Pritchard, a prominent conservative voice in North Georgia, is currently running for an open seat in the state legislature where he hopes to face the widow of former Speaker David Ralston who died last month.
However, his campaign is now faced by charges from the Georgia attorney general’s office stating Pritchard broke state law each time he voted before his sentence was completed.
According to the report, Pritchard who has used his platform to complain about election fraud, “voted illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence in a $33,000 forgery and theft case.”
Typical Republican.
You might want to read the whole story. Not unexpectedly, you are just a self serving lying democrat socialist
Then if found guilty he needs to be stripped of the right to vote and serve time! Now 2000mules.com where 56,000 people are tracked via cell phone and video evidence breaking the law stuffing ballot boxes with multiple ballots, you ready to see justice done there or is only GOP you want locked up???
You do know that “2,000 Mules” is nonsense. Because — cell phone data proves nothing. It shows that people pass the same point several times a day — messengers, taxi drivers, cops, workers going in and out of an office building.
In my rural VA county, our Registrar’s office is located on the busiest road in the county and there’s a drop box in the rear of the building. There’s a bank across the road — people in and out all day. Down the road is a company that sells gravel, rocks, and soil — their trucks pass the Registrar’s office 2-3 dozen times a day — carrying gravel, not ballots. Next door is the Sheriff’s Office — deputies with cell phones entering and leaving 24/7; ditto for the courthouse which is directly behind the Registrar’s office. And on and on and on. Not to mention UPS deliveries and pickups, people driving to and fro running errands, and the like.
Apparently you are not aware of the fact that Regnery Publishing — a major rightwing publishing house — published a book about “2,000 Mules” — then, they recalled and destroyed all copies because they realized it was all nonsense.
Proves nothing? Funny the FBI is using it to round up January 6th protestors. Secondly much of the traffic was at early in the AM and the same cell ping was at multiple drop box locations in the early morning hours. Also there is video from some drop boxes showing them taking a picture OF THE DROP BOX! Why would someone who is pushing multiple ballots into a box at multiple locations taking pictures of the locations?
So your proves nothing false claim is totally baseless, in many cases the dropbox was not near any other business much less that business be open at the early morning hours!
So why are you protecting people who broke the law????????????????????????????????????????????????
You do know that the movie “2,000 Mules” is filled with lies and nonsense, don’t you?
For example — the movie purports to show one person depositing a ballot in six drop boxes. However, analysis of the movie shows that, in fact, it’s the same photo, cropped to make it look as though it’s six different locations.
And that’s just the beginning.
https://www.jan-6.com/2000-mules?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8pD_uKzl-wIVEIrICh2ZlgqCEAAYASAAEgJgbPD_BwE
AG Barr is one of the most corrupt people in DC, your claims are a joke!
Barr is a lying ahole. His claims are accurate
Then go tell them to let the January 6th political prisoners go because they used the same geotracking to arrest them!
Glad to know you are part of the enemies of this nation helping to corrupt its systems!
Ping data does not lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Trump’s Dangerous and Irresponsible Rhetoric”
To whom? The Establishment/UniParty maybe, but the people of these States United.
I kinda like the 1st Amendment of our Bill of Rights. How about you, EJ?
“Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.” — Dale Carnegie
I did not interpret President Trump’s comment as a statement to terminate the Constitution. What I believe he was saying is that it was the magnitude of fraud that was committed that allows for the termination of such laws, and that our founders would not want or condone such acts. Actually, I thought it was the Democrats that wanted to do away with the Constitution (Beto O’Rourke) and the electoral vote just to mention a few. Such hatred for President Trump. I expect it from the Democrats but not from the true conservatives. He was cancelled by the left and now the right. Let him speak-I want to hear him and maybe others do as well. We are now a lawless society with a tyrannical government. A government that is supposed to protect it’s citizenry but instead opens our borders and jails those that disagrees with them. The Democrats are in control and it does not appear that they are going to give it up. Maybe our own Governor was selected.
Brazillians value their freedom:
Gateway Pundit and Matt Tyrmand on War Room were the first worldwide to report that the Brazilian military is moblizing under its constitutional authority to protect democracy. Sources on the ground now confirm that the Army is mobilizing and has eliminated key leaders of the Communist-allied drug cartels in Rio.
In an unusual step for the military, the Army has invaded favelas of Rio de Janeiro and killed top leaders of the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) drug cartel, which supports the Communist criminal Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Observers take this to indicate the beginning of a federal military intervention. The drug gangs were the only ones to celebrate the alleged election victory by criminal Lula Oct. 30, firing automatic weapons in the air in the favelas. President Bolsonaro cracked down hard on the Brazilian drug gangs.
“The heads of drug trafficking of Morro do Juramento and Juramentinho, identified as Rodrigo Barbosa Marinho, known as Rolinha or Titio Rolinha, and Hevelton Nascimento Júnior, the “Bad Boy”, respectively, were killed during a Military Police operation in Vicente de Carvalho on Thursday (1st). Three other suspects died in the action and one, who was also injured, is imprisoned in custody in the hospital” O Dia reports.
The drug cartels are the armed wing of the Communists. Comando Vermelho controls parts of Rio de Janeiro and was formed 1979 as an alliance between cartels and Communists. If they are eliminated, the risk 0f a civil war will be significantly reduced.
“Trump’s Dangerous and Irresponsible Rhetoric”
To whom? The Establishment/UniParty maybe, but not the people of these States United.
I kinda like the 1st Amendment of our Bill of Rights. How about you, EJ?
“Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.” — Dale Carnegie
A swing and a miss, BE.. Assume makes an Ass out of U and Me. What Trump said according to your interpretation vs what Trump actually said is the same game the fake news Democrats have been playing Republicans with like a Stradivarius. Are you inferring that “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” is a suggestion by Trump, or, a statement of actions of Democrats that have been exposed?
Musk just stated that BANKMAN-FREID of FTX likely donated over a billion dollars to democrats for the 2022 election. This is untraceable.
5 states UNCONSTITUTIONALLY changed their election laws before 2020 and the supreme court refused to act!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Constitution is dead, the union is a joke and we are on the edge of total socialist dictatorship. The election was stolen period!
I voted third party in 2016 and voted for Trump in 2020 only because of the corruption of the FBI colluding with the democrats to play Russian collusion lie.
Then I saw 2000mules.com at a theater that caught 56,000 people in an area of only 4% of the country who trafficked 800,000 or more ballots taking pics of drop boxes to prove they were at the box to get paid.
I also saw the vote spikes the video of Ruby in Georgia running the same batch over and over.
Nor I see vote totals in Texas flip in 2022 adding hundreds of votes in seconds to machines.
Now they have evidence in Georgia of money laundering to warnock campaign!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/finally-finally-finally-election-group-uncovers-fraud/
It used to be: “I support my country, right or wrong.” Now, at least with some Republicans, it’s “I support Trump, right or wrong!” This is bad folks. Bad!
It might come as a surprise but to socialists but when they steal something and then get caught they don’t get to keep it.
Find something else to write about. I could care less what a private citizen says. I need the criminals in office to get prosecuted to the ends of the earth and thrown out with people who worked for the people and not their campaigns, egos, or wallets.
Isn’t rhetoric the same as hyperbole, take it as such!
What good is a set of laws that only one side obeys?
That is ultimately the issue. The Brazilian populace understands the significance of election fraud. Apparently, this current crop of American citizens don’t.
No there are millions in America who do!
The Brazilians are in the streets by the millions and their military is now taking action.
That day is coming here, I used to try and talk people out of it but now I remain silent because the corruption of our systems is complete and it needs to fall!