United States President Donald Trump evaluated martial law appeals to annul November 3 elections, in which he was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden, reported The New York Times and the CNN.
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According to the two media outlets, the idea of declaring martial law emerged during a heated rally at the White House this Friday, in which Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser and who was prosecuted as part of the investigation, took part. . the so-called “Russian plot”.
Last Thursday, Flynn stated this in an interview on the ultra-conservative Newsmax channel the president has the power to deploy the US armed forces in the major states where Biden won to repeat the election there.
In accordance with The New York Times, citing two sources familiar with the matter, at one point during Friday’s meeting at the White House, Trump became interested in the idea that Flynn had previously formulated.
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US President-elect Joe Biden.
Chip Somodevilla. AFP
The CNN He also states that this idea came up during the meeting, but explains Trump’s words made it unclear whether he really supported the idea of going into law martial.
Several of the president’s advisers immediately rejected the option of issuing martial law, which would imply that the entire country is under the control of the armed forces.
In response to the reports, Trump lashed out at the media on Twitter and asked early in the morning, “Martial Law = Fake News. It’s just more bad news!”
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Martial law = fake news. Just more deliberately bad reporting!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2020
In the United States, the president and governors of each of the country’s 50 states have the power to invoke martial law, but the chief executive cannot do it unilaterally and needs Congressional approval, according to a study from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
The last time the federal government imposed martial law was in Hawaii in 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Trump, who is due to leave power on January 20, has so far not acknowledged his defeat in the elections and has filed several lawsuits in major states alleging, without evidence, that there was electoral fraud in the postal ballot used by millions. Americans because of the pandemic.
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