Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.

The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.

These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.

Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.

Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.

Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.

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    They’re only seemingly equivalent if you’re one of those folks who votes based off of one talking point. Once you look at the whole body of things each side are doing, its clear they’re not even close to equivalent.

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      If I hear someone say “I support genocide”, even if it’s followed up by “but less than the other guy!” (which is again not supported by actual mortality numbers), I do not care what else they have to say.

      They are equivalent in every way which matters.

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        Words that she never said. Lol, are you just paraphrasing or trying to sum up a point she made in a specific light?

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          Yes, I am paraphrasing, glad you were able to clue in on the fact that she didn’t literally say “I support genocide” verbatim. That might’ve been lost on a less intellectual soul than yourself.

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            So then your voting off a single topic that you’ve essentially made up. Nice! Oh, and look who is supporting genocide now.

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                Every one of your maga posts are downvoted since you’re so hateful. I don’t talk to broken brained maga losers like you.

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                  I don’t give a shit about being popular among libs lmao

                  I’m… also not MAGA, but I understand that Blue MAGA sees the world in very binary, brainwashed terms.