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Trump wrongly fl irts with election ‘delay’
In possibly the most alarming
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tweet issued in his four-year
reign, President Donald Trump
suggested last week that the Nov.
3 presidential election should be
delayed.
Of course, he cannot do this, as
the Constitution does not allow
it and only Congress would have
the power to make such a disruptive
call.
For 230 years, American presidential
elections have been held
in the fi rst week of November,
as required by the Constitution.
Th ese elections have taken place
against the backdrop of a civil
war, global wars, depressions
and pandemics.
Furthermore, under the 20th
Amendment of the Constitution,
the president’s term expires Jan.
20, 2021. If this election heist is
somehow pulled off , and there
is no elected president or vice
president come Jan. 20, 2021, the
presidency falls to the Speaker of
the House. Perhaps to his political
arch nemesis, Nancy Pelosi.
It becomes ponderous that
our president didn’t really think
this through. How uncharacteristic…
A particularly provoking point
to pay attention to is the media’s
coverage of this tweet so far.
Many reports add an aside that
perhaps this tweet wasn’t serious.
Perhaps it was a joke. And this
reminds us of the shocking reality
that fl ippant, oft en highly irrational
tweets are our mainline
to the mind of our commander
in chief — a mind that seems
increasingly unstable.
It should be apparent to all that
this is a shameful ploy made by
a desperate and power hungry
man who is trailing in the polls to
Biden, facing the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression,
with hundreds of thousands of
deaths on his hands and therefore
in need of more time to
think of an ideological strategy
other than the economy — his
go-to until COVID-19 hit — to
weasel himself a win. He himself,
not mail voting, is the fraud.
And this is not the fi rst time
Trump has made dictatorial
claims. We remember his declaration
of “total authority” back
in April when threatening to
manhandle state governments in
their strategies for dealing with
the pandemic.
He was taken to task then, and
he must be taken to task now.
Trump should quickly get used
to the fact that the Constitution’s
authority over the American
electoral process is the only
totalistic aspect of this debate —
lest we descend into tyranny.
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President Donald Trump
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