Trump is Planning to Manufacture a 'Crisis' to Cancel to the 2028 Election

[joluoto]

There isn't going to be a 2028 election.

There will be something that is called an election. I don't think Trump will get less than 80% of the votes though.

 

[Peacenik]

Consider this:

1. Trump does have a tendency to declare emergencies where none exist because it often gives him the power to do what ordinarily would not be allowed.

2. Trump stands a very real chance of being tried and sentenced to prison when he no longer has presidential immunity.

3. Now that he has the SCOTUS in his back pocket, and maga is a bunch of sycophants who are forced to support him no matter what he does, he has a lot of support for whatever he wants to do.

4. He is, and always has been, an asshole who does whatever he wants. He has no regard for the law and sees it as a challenge to find some way around it.

5. He is the world's biggest attention-hound, (can't get enough of it) and this would make him totally the center of attention once again.

6. He doesn't care about anyone else, and he certainly does not care about America.

7. He has admitted he is probably not 'going to heaven,' (for those who actually believe such a place even exists.) What does he have to lose by trying this?

 

[NatMorton]

Democratic lawmakers are already sounding the alarm bell. This is bad. He's already been cozying up to Military generals and firing anyone who is not loyal to him. Testing the waters by deploying the military to Democratic run cities. The writing is on the wall our Democracy is close to over.

Lawmaker Sounds Alarm: Trump Plotting Fake Crisis to Scrap 2028 Election and Stay in Power

President Donald Trump’s recent speech to hundreds of top U.S. generals at Marine Corps Base Quantico wasn’t just political bluster — it was laying the groundwork for an authoritarian power grab.

dailyboulder.com

Stop frightening the children.

 

[God Family then Country]

It's useful when the right lacks any rationality and just mouths/parrots phrases they're fed like "fake news" as if that says anything relevant. You might as well put your hand over your ears and say lalala. The OP is right on about trump's plotting to try to cancel elections. It's not as if he's already done this for years trying to steal the 2020 election lying about it and launching the worst traitor attack on our Capitol, our government, and our democracy in history.

You mean the expansion of gerrymandering it Scotus rules in Republican favor.

Districts have been gerrymandered for decades now. That is slowly going away, to the disadvantage of the Democrat Party. You will be a minority party forever now.

 

[Along Came Jones]

Dates for presidential elections are set by federal statute.

3 U.S. Code § 1 - Time of appointing electors
"The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President."
Which is derived from Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

The president has no constitutional or statutory authority to suspend, delay or cancel any federal election. He plays no role. Citing the possibility of a national crisis as justification for a president to obstruct the election process is groundless. What could be more of a national crisis than the Civil War? Elections were held and Lincoln was reelected. Confederate states in rebellion simply did not participate.

 

[Callen]

I don't know if it is the midterms or 2028 but there is no doubt in my mind he will invoke the insurrection act or some such thing in an attempt to interfere/delay/ cancel the elections. I also believe it is in the planning stages now. I know the right have convinced themselves that Jan 6th was a nothing burger but there was much going on to usurp power including fake electors and attempts to change the outcome. The evidence is clear and abundant. If he he did it then he'll do it again. He is so obsessed with power and money he'll do anything and there is a very smart, evil but smart , group in the Admin who will use his weaknesses to achieve their goals.

 

[Craig234]

Districts have been gerrymandered for decades now. That is slowly going away, to the disadvantage of the Democrat Party. You will be a minority party forever now.

Gerrymandering benefits Republicans more. It's not going away, it's increasing as the corrupt Supreme Court allows more and more, including being about to strike down racial justice for districts in the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to let Republicans steal seats from people of color. The threat to the American people's power isn't being a minority, it's the Republicans ending fair elections, which you appear to support.

 

[j brown's body]

Stop frightening the children.

In light of what we see coming out of the White House and the GOP with regard to elections, tour personal assertion that that this threat doesn't exist isn't terribly reassuring.

 

[j brown's body]

Gerrymandering benefits Republicans more. It's not going away, it's increasing as the corrupt Supreme Court allows more and more, including being about to strike down racial justice for districts in the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to let Republicans steal seats from people of color. The threat to the American people's power isn't being a minority, it's the Republicans ending fair elections, which you appear to support.

Oh, its over. we will soon be a one-party, one-race State. Jim Crow 2.0 indeed!

Already, the Supreme court has been a one-party branch of government for a generation.

 

[element94]

Fake news. You'd be better off protesting the removal of Gerrymandering that is bound to eliminate 20 House seats from the Democrat Party.

Denial, as usual.

 

[element94]

Dan Goldman is the Party's newest manure spreading tool, like an Adam Schiff.

Is that what you call someone with hard proven facts? Of course you do. Makes no sense, of course, but consistent.

 

[trixare4kids]

Is that what you call someone with hard proven facts? Of course you do. Makes no sense, of course, but consistent.

What hard proven facts does Dan Goldmen possess that Trump will cancel the 2028 election? All you're doing is helping Goldman to promote fear. Call him out and ask him for the facts.

 

[LostInSeattle]

The point is that they'll simply invent one. Again, if Trump doesn't get a heart attack or something before then. I imagine that even if he were even more of a doddering husk, JD Vance for one would definitely want Trump to begin a third term so that young Vance could then have a credible shot at nine or ten terms; same for anyone else waiting in the wings fancying themselves eventually sitting in Trump's big chair.


It is if he orders ICE or military agents to do it under even the flimsiest pretext of 'national security.' The ruling was very clear that as long as the broad type of interaction falls under his official duties, its legality or even relevance doesn't make the slightest difference to his immunity. The specific allegations in the case were that Trump knowingly conspired to overturn an election with various folk such as his Attorney General, with SCOTUS holding that he could not be prosecuted to even determine the truth of the accusations let alone the legality of his actions, since interactions with his AG under some pretext were part of his official duties. From the Syllabus:
"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives. . . . Nor may courts deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law. . . .


The indictment alleges that as part of their conspiracy to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his co-conspirators attempted to leverage the Justice Department’s power and authority to convince certain States to replace their legitimate electors with Trump’s fraudulent slates of electors. . . .

The indictment’s allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of exclusive authority over the investigative and prosecutorial functions of the Justice Department and its officials. Because the President cannot be prosecuted for conduct within his exclusive constitutional authority, Trump is absolutely immune from prosecution for the alleged conduct involving his discussions with Justice Department officials"


I'm sure there'd be a number of states which would contest it, which would eventually make their way to the Supreme Court which would rule...?

Thanks for posting this. The ruling was even worse than I remembered.

 

[reinaert]

There isn't going to be a 2028 election.

Obviously.

 

[element94]

What hard proven facts does Dan Goldmen possess that Trump will cancel the 2028 election? All you're doing is helping Goldman to promote fear. Call him out and ask him for the facts.

I know what Trump said and I quote: ""in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
I mean, really! You haven't heard this?

Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election

It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks.

www.reuters.com