There’s been a lot of speculation that if Donald Trump loses in 2020, there won’t be a peaceful transition of power, and since we’re at that point, it kind of highlights why this president needs to lose in a landslide and make depression medications not great again.
The founder of CNBC was interviewed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and gave us a glimpse of how Trump would attempt to remain president even if he is defeated in November. And it’s a terrifying scenario. Tom Rogers and co-author former Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) spoke out on the article in Newsweek, “How Trump Could Lose the Election– and Still Remain President.”
Rogers said it is “not farfetched,” and he believes Trump will do anything to remain in office.
“This is how it happens, Biden wins,” Rogers said. “I don’t just mean the popular vote, he [Biden] wins the key swing states, he wins the electoral college. President Trump says there’s been Chinese interference in the election. He’s been talking about Biden’s soft on China — China wanted Biden to win so he says a national emergency; the Chinese have intervened in the election.”
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“Why do I think that’s real?” he continued to say. “Just ten days ago he tweeted, he actually tweeted, “rigged 2020 election,” millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries it will be the scandal of our times. so he’s laying the groundwork for this. So he does an investigation and [Attorney General Bill] Barr backs this up with all kinds of legal opinions about emergency powers that the president has.”
“Then what happens is it’s all geared towards December 14th. Why December 14th? Well, that’s the deadline when the electors of the states have to be chosen,” he said. “Why is that key? Because that’s what the Supreme Court used in Bush v. Gore to cut off the Florida counting. They keep this national emergency investigation going through December 14th. Biden, of course, challenges this in the courts and says, ‘hey, we won these states, I want the electors that favored me named. The Supreme Court doesn’t throw the election to the republicans as it did in 2000, instead, it says, ‘look, there’s a deadline here.’ If they can’t be certified in these states because of this investigation going on, there’s a constitutional process for this.”
“What’s the constitutional process? It goes to the House of Representatives,” Roger explained. “Everybody says, ‘that’s good. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats control the House, but no. When a presidential election is thrown into the House of Representatives under the Constitution, it’s state-by-state vote. Each state gets one vote based on the number of Republicans and Democrats in that delegation. Today, Republicans control the House on that kind of vote 26 to 23 with one delegation, Pennsylvania, split. Even if Pennsylvania was to elect a Democratic delegation come this new election because it’s the new Congress that votes here, it would be 26 to 24 Republicans and Trump retains the presidency.”
“It is not so farfetched — he is planning to do this,” he added.
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That doesn’t seem like a stretch for Trump to attempt to remain in office given his tweets and attempts to suppress the vote. A narcissist doesn’t take defeat very well. Biden is trouncing Trump in the polls, and that’s been getting under President Adderall McSniffy’s thin skin. The fact that we’re even discussing this highlights how dangerous Donald Trump is. This president has a fundamental need to always be right and he cannot tolerate losing.
Just last month Trump said during a Fox News interview, “Certainly if I don’t win, I don’t win. You go on, do other things.” Yeah, but pretty much everything this president says is a lie. And again, this subject shouldn’t even need to be brought up.
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