Trump Has Laid The Groundwork To Steal Future Elections

In just 6 months in office, Donald Trump has laid the framework to allow Republicans to steal future elections. The biggest move was packing the DOJ with election-denying loyalists who likely won’t hesitate to make false claims of massive fraud and pressure local officials to toss election results. The DOJ would also be less likely to launch any challenges to oppressive tactics on voting day. On top of that, Trump has judges installed all over the country who care more about loyalty to him than they do about the rule of law, meaning challenges could be swiftly dismissed. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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Ever since the moment he was sworn back in as president of the United States, Donald Trump immediately began laying the groundwork to steal future elections. And a new report from the Brennan Center actually explained exactly how he did it. Let me just read you, all I have to do is read you one paragraph and it lays it all out beautifully. Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at the Department of Justice, issued executive orders, centralizing decision making within the White House, attempted to unilaterally change state and local election laws, demanded unprecedented access to voter data, dismantled election security protections, threatened elections officials and workers law firms, and others who have historically stood up to protect elections and d defended, hired or pardon those involved in previous efforts to subvert elections.

Now, let's get into the nitty gritty here, because that's a nice, beautiful list, but what does it all mean? Well, first and foremost, we do know the pardon of the Capitol rioters. Some of those people are now running for office, running for elections officials. Republicans have been encouraging people since the 2020 election. Go out there and go volunteer, go be these people in charge of the election so you can catch the fraud. And of course, the installation of election deniers at the DOJ all the way up at the top. Pam Bondi denied the 2020 election results. Cash Patel, director of the FBI did, Pete Hegseth, did Dan Bonino. All of these people are now in positions to where if Trump says, go seize the voting machines like he told Bill Barr to do after the 2020 election, bill Barr told him no. You think Pam Bondy's gonna tell him no.

Or Cash Patel or Dan Bonino, or even Pete Hegg sits at the Pentagon. No, these are all people that will do whatever Trump tells them to do. And it's not just the names we know, it's people all down the line in these departments at the FBI, the DOJ, the DOD, all of 'em. Trump has all the power now, which he didn't have when he tried to overturn the 2020 election results. He unfortunately learned from his mistakes and he has now packed this entire administration with people who will do what he wants, and they in turn have packed their departments with people that will blindly follow orders, even if it includes subverting election results. Not only that, this guy signed an executive order on March 25th. Uh, the executive order aims to allow the president to directly set state election law, despite the president having no constitutional role or legal power in the administration of elections. So he signed an executive order that is currently blocked by the courts. However, it'll end up going to the Supreme Court and probably be unblocked, but saying, I Donald Trump

Actually control everybody's elections. He signed an executive order in March, two months on the job saying, I control all the elections. Which of course means if election results come in that he doesn't like, he can say, listen, uh, throw out all those ballots. The, the, this all fraud. I I can tell right off the bat this all fraud. Throw 'em out. They don't count. Take 'em away. Oh, all those voting machines, yeah, those, those were rigged and hacked. So anything that came in on a voting machine, you gotta get rid of the Department of Homeland Security. Under Christie, NO'S leadership has sent letters to election officials in six states seeking their full unredacted voter files.