Trump Too Chickenshit for a Fair Fight, Won't Rule Out Illegal Election Takeover
Desperate Trump refuses to reject a “national emergency” power grab because he knows he can't win a fair fight.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Donald Trump is so scared of losing that he's openly flirting with tearing up the Constitution so Republicans can stay in power. A far-right radio host urged Trump on-air to declare a national security emergency so he could implement his anti-voting bill without Congress or the courts. Trump didn't rule it out, saying “stranger things have happened.” Trump knows he's cooked in November and is casting around for any way to cheat his way out of it.
“Experts across the board agree that our elections are safe and secure. There is no ‘national emergency.' But Donald Trump might declare one anyway because he's a desperate, unpopular loser who knows he can't win the old-fashioned way,” said Abhi Rahman, Try and Stop Us Spokesperson. “Every court has told him no. He won't win a fair fight. So now he's talking about tearing up the rulebook entirely. Voters see exactly what this is: rigging the game because you're too weak to win it. It won't work.”
There is no national security emergency and no election fraud, just a wildly unpopular president whose DOJ is already 0-for-21 in court trying to seize states' voter data. Elections are run by the states, not by presidential decree, and Trump knows it.
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