If he does, I'll be fascinated to see certain posters explain how this still isn't a coup.
Dave
You are talking about a completely new situation.
"Still" is not relevant.
Now we have this new group (has anyone ever heard of them before?) We The People Convention, WTPC,
inciting Trump to attempt a coup for real. His other flailing could not be described as more than a Trump fantasy. Now we have Flynn and some TEA Party guy I never heard of before today encouraging Trump to
attempt a real coup.
Just when it looked like Trump had moved into cleanup mode—pardon everyone, last minute grifting as much money as possible, and destroying incriminating records—we get Flynn Tweeting this **** in Trump's ear. That has the potential to set him off on a new path of "I didn't lose".
The military is not behind Trump. If there was a civil war the military would wipe the floor with the rag tag bunch of idiots who have been playing soldier in the woods. It would almost be worth it to clean the bulk of that mass out.
But instead this will serve to entice yet more random violence. It's unfortunate the news media is giving this so much attention. They could have covered it with a back page paragraph that it deserved. Or they could have covered it as nonsense that will set off more random violence rather than giving it credence. Some of the news agencies are attempting this to some degree.
Lawyers Condemn Michael Flynn and Lin Wood’s ‘Breathtakingly Morally Treasonous’ Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Hold New Election
The whole thing is nutty as all get off, with Trump's election loss being attributed to the Democrat communists/socialists and China who are all involved in some massive cabal that includes the FBI, the GOP leaders in GA, and anyone else who repeats the blasphemy that Trump lost. And let's not leave out the pedophilia ring that QAnon is apparently still touting.
So in summary:
A couple of Trump sycophants are egging Trump on.
Trump is susceptible to this kind of ◊◊◊◊—it fits his fantasy.
The news media can't resist a scandal, it's their business model so they are amplifying the suggestion.
An actual attempt to declare Martial Law requires more than Trump signing an EO.
Miller has replaced Esper because Esper wasn't doing Trump's bidding, and apparently Miller would need to go along with the EO, so that's an unknown.
But this source says Trump doesn't have the authority and there would need to be widespread civil unrest:
Brennan Center for Justice
In Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, it states that the habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless in cases of rebellion or invasion, when public safety requires it, Glazier said.
“There are two very, very important points to be taken from that language,’’ he said. “The first is that obviously it can only be done in very dire situations. There has to be an open rebellion or a foreign invasion to justify suspension of habeas corpus. It cannot be the dispute of the outcome of an election. Secondly, this is found in Article I and that describes the duties of Congress. It requires an act of Congress to suspend habeas corpus.”
That, he said, makes it easy to demonstrate that a U.S president does not have the legal authority to invoke martial law, or it would have been written in Article 2 of the Constitution.
