While its imposition is rare, martial law has been imposed several times in the history of the United States. Martial law is the replacement of civil rule with temporary military authority. Martial law is designed to maintain order in times of crisis. He tweeted, “I am very disappointed in the United States Supreme Court, and so is our great country!”Īfter the Supreme Court ruling on the Texas lawsuit, some of Trump allies, most notably Flynn started to float the idea of imposing martial law, which could be the last resort to extend Trump’s stay at the White House, because he exhausted almost all other legal and political options to overturn the election results. Nearly a week later, he once again railed against the Supreme Court. No Wisdom, No Courage!” Trump tweeted on December 12. The lawsuit of Texas was ultimately rejected by the Supreme Court, a move that disappointed Trump. None of them succeeded in handing the presidency to Trump. This lawsuit was part of lawsuits questioning the results of the election. 18 state attorneys general and 106 Republican members of Congress supported the lawsuit. In early December, the state of Texas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court in a bid to invalidate results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. After they initially failed to change the election result, they resorted to the Supreme Court, which, in turn, disappointed Trump and his supporters.
First of all, the campaign sought to stop counting what they called “illegal votes.” And then it demanded a recount of votes in swing states where Trump lost to Biden by a narrow margin. The Trump campaign has tried many ways to overturn the election results. He kept saying that he had won the election even after his rival Joe Biden won the election. Since the election, and even before the election, Trump has kept saying that the election would be rigged and thus he will not concede defeat. Just more knowingly bad reporting!” the U.S. Trump, however, rejected the martial law report as fake news. Martial law has been instituted 64 times.”įlynn repeated this advice in the Friday meeting. These people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done. The former national security advisor added, “He could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. “He could immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these machines, on his order.” “There is no way in the world we are going to be able to move forward as a nation,” Flynn told Newsmax.
It wasn't clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down. The meeting, first reported by The New York Times, was held on Friday with lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn in attendance.įlynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden - an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, according to CNN.
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President Donald Trump, who is struggling to remain in office for four more years after he lost the presidential election in November, has reportedly held an explosive meeting at the White House to discuss how to overturn the election results.ĭuring the meeting, Trump heard a piece of advice that could prove to be the last resort for him to remain in the White House for another term: declaring martial law.
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