Trump Reportedly Mulling Plan to Declare ‘National Emergency’ Paving Way for Major Power Grab

Those are just called sharts.

He's the boy who cried wolf of presidents.

Because "emergencies" are the Wild cards given to the Executive Branch by Congress and SCOTUS. There's no clear definition and no boundaries until he's challenged in court or Congress overrules him.

Speed run it all the way to the guillotines plz

Without the war, and the civility.

It's an emergency because if he leaves it alone Republicans are going to tank hard in the midterms which will mean he loses power and might even be held accountable for his crimes.

He will just never get over the fact that he lost in 2020. And he's willing to make all of America suffer for his butthurt.

It hurt hurt his feelings bigly. And if anyone, anywhere has ever hurt Donny's feelings then it is a national emergency.

It's our own doing, there is no China in it.
2 corrupt party system did it

Counting down until he's lying in state.

He's probably going to wait until closer to November so the courts won't have time to respond.

The billionaire owned media is normalizing this on purpose.

This is absolutely the most important thing to keep in mind here.

Remember, this is a memo being circulated by Trump supporters. It's actual legal basis likely sits somewhere around "political fan-fiction."

The same thing happened in 2020. Trump supporters invented completely nonsensical legal justifications for how Trump could sieze power. None of them held water.

Can Trump just ignore the law and declare shit anyway? Sure. Self-coup is always an option in any democracy. But he is deeply unpopular; I don't really see that working out for him, although the process of it not working out certainly might be a very violent one.

Trump tried to self-coup in 2020, and the result absolutely fizzled. It was violent, and messy, and innocent people died, but in the grand scheme of attempted insurrections it was pretty fucking pathetic. He's got a cult of personality, but he's never actually done the work to build the kind of organized support he'd need for something like that.

I'm never going to tell Americans that the danger is over and everything is fine. There has probably never been a more dangerous time for American democracy. But don't mistake that danger for inevitability. While Trump is carving a path of destruction through your government, norms and institutions, he's also bleeding power every single day. You can win this.

This is exactly the Project 2025 playbook. Doing things by the law takes time. In that time, they do as they please.

That's a good point; think of all the other things they're normalizing this way as well.

The same Washington Post owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos? I'm shocked!

Huh? It's our own election system. 2 corrupt parties for a long time. Candidates nobody wants and this is the result

Sounds about right, there are a lot of pro-trump anti-democrat content circulating in WeChat...

Seems like they are trying to discourage diasporas from voting for democrats

This would be where they burn down the Reichstag congress.

To me "working on it" implies there are things in motion to manufacture that sense of emergence...

There's a lot of evidence to shoddily fabricate.

you don't have to "work on" declaring an emergency

Hey boss, I'm going to be ill a week on Friday.

You would think... but to the government, "emergency" is just a marketing phrase.

Sitouts still think they did the right thing in 2024. Theres the answer for you.

Fun fact: if you're shocked, that means your model of the world is incorrect. Luckily, you can learn and switch your world-interpreting paradigm to one that works better.

Historical materialism predicts this pretty well. I haven't been surprised by the US since I became an anarchocommunist.

im sat (and sad) here in europe and worried because eu keeps imitating the us, just much slower

Yeah, we'll see IF he does this AND it stands IF people will let it happen. I'm not sure that they (we) will. But it could. But I've had so little hope since 2016, and it just got worse in 2024. Still fighting as best as I can, and hoping others will.

Where are these people who can deal with it?

Please, show some evidence that they actually exist. I don't need names and addresses, thats just opening them up as targets.

Do they exist? Because all I've seen is a lot of bitching and whining and declaring that no-one is good enough to do that.

Both sides are the same so we should just not vote and let Trump win.

-Leftists

stupid people tend to be happier bc they dont use their little brains to worry or even think about anything beyond their day to day. civil rights erasure? who cares as long as burger hot and beer cold.

The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.

The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.

There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn't vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.

All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn't immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.

Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.

Sounds like an excuse, no dictator has ever been held at bay by lack of action and this regime is not shy of pulling stuff directly from their asses.

Unfortunately we have been boned since the immunity ruling.

And even if it does it will be a Trump Crony Judge that just goes... yeah sure, be a dictator buddy!

His lawyers don't exactly have high hopes.

they succeeded in 2024, with the help elon and the voting machines, DNC is pretty much complicit.

if something like this does happen, at this point I don’t trust anybody to stop it.

I'm arming myself. Hope everyone else is.

What "emergency" could trump that with

He has no trouble pulling random excuses out of his ass.

And on the rare occasion the courts eventually tell him to stop, he will have been doing whatever he wants for months and moths before he is told to stop.

The Supreme Court should not be trusted.

If we’re both putting forth theories then what’s incorrect about assuming the Supreme Court went against him on tariffs so it would seem “fair” when they back him on stealing elections?

After all, they’ve done this exact scenario before.

How bleak that we have to trust a court that constantly operates in bad faith to save democracy from the guy that hired too many of them.

He also immediately promised new tariffs

Cautiously optimistic nodding to your conclusion

3 of them did.

They probably will rule that the "emergency" is unconstitutional, but consider how long Trump got away with unconstitutional tariffs before SCOTUS tossed them out, and how long he would need to get away with fucking with election rules to get the election results he wants.

If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.

His MO has been to use “emergency” as a power grab

Just like every other shithead dictator. It's well past time to go sic semper tyrannis on him.

Well that's because the courts avoid defining what an emergency is in every single case. No court is ultimately willing to limit his power. Even the last tariff case was shot down because the law he used didn't have language about tariffs in them, not because it wasn't an emergency.

If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.

Same as 'think of the (insert impoverished group du jour)...!'

"They say evil wins when good people do nothing. I disagree, it should just be 'evil wins'."

So I'm of the opinion that it should be as costly a victory for the bastards as possible.

There won't be a civil war and the people have already lost. There.

Or just don’t forget to backup yourself

You already can! Are you worried about repercussions? They aren't.

For there to be consequences we would have to have a legislature not working for billionaires.

All of this comes down to billionaires buying their way out of having just one vote.

Doesn't there actually have to be a "National Emergency" before he can just "declare" one?

Yes, but here's the problem. Both the courts and Congress in their truly finite and limited wisdom have decided that only the president can determine what is an emergency.

The ending is OK. It's the journey there we all want to avoid.

Getting control of one of the main oppositions to Russian power in the hands of one of the dumbest, weakest, most narcissistic people ever? He's probably preparing the celebratory champagne enemas and hookers as we speak.

Why?

Seems better than what we do now. The second you try to commit a coup to stay in power, that should be the end of your political career.

Pretty much, and the original report was by the Wapo

Fuck, I wanna wake up tomorrow to sunshine and tacos and tequila.

But his opponent was a woman. Of color. And she said the things that he outright did his first term. And the voters didnt care because they thought itd be a landslide. Again.

Time. Time to kill Dr. Jeffrey O'dwire, with my new hammer.

What if that was just theater?

Never underestimate the DNCs ability to run a candidate that the moderates couldn't even hold their nose for.

The idea that this ends with Trumps death is no different than leaning on the hope that someone else who isn’t you is going to stop any of this.

Yes, he looks terrible. Yes, it’s entirely possible we wake up tomorrow to news that he died in bed.

But consider what happens next. Peter Theil assumes the presidency through Vance. And Theil hates democracy.

And MAGA doesn’t worship his administration team. Only him.

Yup. MAGA doesn't have something similar to North Korea's Juche to save them because all Trump thinks about is himself.

Hell yes! Barnaby Jones!

The flailing around and constant changing of plans is probably just theater. Whatever else happens, they will always flood the zone with shit. Whatever the plan is, the news is only a vague indicator of it.

Such predictions have been made for nearly a decade.

Probably not.

I would love to be proven wrong, but the evidence of the last year tells me I won't be.

The only way the US military would ever -MAYBE - intervene is if Trump openly and unambiguously violated a direct order from the Supreme Court. If SCOTUS directly prohibited Trump from seizing control of elections, and Trump just ordered the military to intervene, that might be enough to make them refuse orders.

But that's unlikely to happen. First, SCOTUS will likely just slow walk this until after the election, refusing to rule on it while also not allowing any injunctions. Three months after the election they rule against it.

Or, even if SCOTUS does strike it down, Trump can rely on ambiguity. The court strikes this one down? Three weeks before the election, Trump issues a new executive order. This does much the same thing as the one the court struck down, but it's based on a completely different legal authority. The military then no longer has a clear unambiguous ruling from the court on how to act.

The only way the military might refuse to follow orders is if Trump openly and clearly violates a direct SCOTUS ruling. And Trump can simply engineer things so that such a clear unambiguous case never happens. It's one thing for a group of soldiers to cite a direct court ruling in their refusal to follow orders. It's another for some 19 year olds to decide the constitutionality of a presidential action by themselves and refuse to intervene.