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Even for ex-president Donald Trump, this was so extraordinary that no one probably even thought about doing it.
As a "remedy" for the "stolen" presidential election, he called for a reboot. He tweeted (the caps and the puzzling quotation marks, are his):
Now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION, knowing that if they didn't, "Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential election." This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country. REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner [him, of course] or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election immediately.
Huh? What?!
Err...There's a small matter of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, that prescribes in detail how the election is run. Never mind that it says the president shall be elected for a term of four years, along with the vice president.
Certain questions immediately spring to mind:
How the hell is this supposed to work? Who has the power to declare the prior election to be null and void? Who has the power to order an immediate new election? President Joe Biden? Or maybe the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will stage a coup with a go-along military?
How do you get past the little something in the Constitution that is so clear and present that it can be altered, changed or overridden without the prescribed procedure for its amendment? Certainly there'd be a lawsuit that any federal judge, who hasn't lost his mind, would rule against the very idea at the immediate outset. Without even getting close to the Supreme Court hearing the case.
Can individual states--the Blue ones--opt out of a new election? Would it set off a civil war with the National Guards of Blue and Red states in combat?
Would Mike Pence--the guy who Trump loathes because the vice president refused to illegally overturn the election on Jan. 6th--be allowed to share the ticket with Trump? Or would Trump get to pick a new vice presidential candidate? What idiot would want to run with such a crazy man?
Aside from the legal absurdity of such an idea, there are the logistics. Who establishes the rules for how to proceed with a new election and how would such a complex and costly process be carried out?
My God, the idea of an unconstitutional, unreal and illegal coup is so absurd and frightening that it could only spring from a disturbed mind. From an egomaniac who thinks that the entire country is so in love with him that they'd junk the Constitution. Mind you, Trump claims to represent the GOP, a party whose heart and soul is allegiance to the sanctity of the Constitution.
Maybe Trump was joking. Maybe it was a "trial balloon" that has all the buoyancy of a led ballon.
Whatever. This peek into the troubled mind of Trump should scare the hell out of anyone, I mean even those who can look beyond his personal faults or his successful policies and who think he should return to the Oval Office.
Once again, Trump has irrefutably demonstrated that he should never again be allowed even close to the White House.
