https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-transition/index.html Alarm grows over Trump's 'dictator moves' as he denies election defeat After Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who had put loyalty to the Constitution ahead of his duty to the President, three other senior Pentagon officials have been fired or resigned. They include the department's top policy official, James Anderson, who resigned and is being replaced by retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata, whose nomination for the post earlier this summer foundered after CNN's KFile reported his numerous past Islamophobic and offensive remarks. Sources told Barbara Starr and CNN's Pentagon team that the dismissals might be motivated by pushback from Esper and his team against a withdrawal from Afghanistan that would be carried out before the required conditions on the ground were met, and other pending security issues. "This is scary, it's very unsettling," one defense official told CNN. "These are dictator moves." A disputed transfer of power could offer US adversaries an opening, especially if there is a belief abroad that there is disarray in the national security infrastructure. Trump may next turn his ire on CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray, CNN's Jake Tapper has reported. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on CNN International Tuesday that he feared the US was entering a dangerous period. "I think (Trump) is going to be uniquely distracted from world events and national security," Murphy said. Former national security adviser John Bolton told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Pompeo's comments on a Trump transition were "delusional." "I think he has eviscerated his credibility internationally because I think there are very few people even in the US government who believe that is the case," Bolton said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/20/michigan-lawmakers-to-meet-trump-amid-vote-certification-anger.html 'Shame': Protesters tell Michigan lawmaker to certify vote for Biden as he goes to meet Trump at White House The Republican majority leader of the Michigan Senate was greeted with protestors' signs saying "SHAME" and chants of "certify the vote" as he headed to meet with President Donald Trump. Trump is expected to lean on him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in that state, according to an NBC News report. Trump's invitation to lawmakers in an apparent effort to have them invalidate the popular presidential vote is believed to be unprecedented. "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President," said U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, the 2012 GOP nominee for president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-state-legislatures-overturn-election-results-439031 Trump calls on GOP state legislatures to overturn election results The president’s comment comes after a series of legal defeats, and with his options dwindling. President Donald Trump made explicit Saturday the strategy his legal team has been hinting at for days: He wants Republican-led legislatures to overturn election results in states that Joe Biden won. "Why is Joe Biden so quickly forming a Cabinet when my investigators have found hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes, enough to “flip” at least four States, which in turn is more than enough to win the Election?" Trump said, despite refusing to produce any such evidence either publicly or in court cases filed by his attorneys. "Hopefully the Courts and/or Legislatures will have the COURAGE to do what has to be done to maintain the integrity of our Elections, and the United States of America itself," Trump said. Trump's call for lawmakers to hand him the election is the most overt call he's made yet for state lawmakers to overturn the election results. But it also underscores his dwindling options: Michigan is due to certify its vote totals on Monday, as are Pennsylvania counties, which would hand the statewide certification duty to Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat. On Friday, Georgia certified Biden’s victory.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...mbles-about-voter-fraud-speakerphone-n1249029 Trump calls into Pennsylvania hearing, rambles about voter fraud on speakerphone "We have to turn the election over, because there's no doubt we have all the evidence," he said, providing no evidence. "We have to turn the election over, because there's no doubt we have all the evidence, we have all the affidavits, we have everything," he said, providing no evidence of his various allegations. "All we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of a problem, because we have everything and, by the way, the evidence is pouring in now as we speak."
And now we here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/trump-nominee-pentagon-martial-law/index.html Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law
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