The Insurrection Act has gained popularity among the far-right fringes, mainly as a way for President Donald Trump to solve all their problems. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images

An 1807 law invoked only in the most violent circumstances is now a rallying cry for the MAGA-ites most committed to the fantasy that Donald Trump will never leave office.

The law, the Insurrection Act, allows the president to deploy troops to suppress domestic uprisings — not to overturn elections.

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Trump has invited some of Michigan’s top Republicans to the White House in a sign he may be seeking a way around the results. President-elect Joe Biden is projected to win 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 and has leads of tens of thousands of votes in several key states.

The president also reached out to officials in Wayne County who had sought to block the certification of votes there. The effort by those officials brought calls of racism from Detroit’s mayor given the number of votes by Black Americans that might have been overturned. Biden is ahead in Michigan by more than 140,000 votes.

Separately, Giuliani and a team of attorneys overseeing Trump’s legal challenges to the vote count in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and elsewhere levied various claims of fraud at a press conference Thursday that levied various claims of fraud.

Giuliani alleged that the president was a victim of a scheme by dozens of Democratic election officials from Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other major cities that contributed to Biden getting more votes, even though Trump also improved over his 2016 performance in those traditionally Democratic areas.

“This was not an individual idea of 10 or 12 Democrat bosses. This was a plan. You would have to be a fool not to realize that,” Giuliani said at the presser from the Republican National Committee headquarters.

Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell, a fixture on Fox News prime-time programming who represents former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, made clear that their goal was to overturn the results in several states Biden is leading or has been projected as the winner.

Giuliani and Powell failed to produce evidence of their claims beyond holding up sworn affidavits from citizens who alleged they witnessed suspicious behavior. Giuliani did not commit to sharing his evidence with the press so they could fully vet his claims, and one reporter noted the Trump campaign is not asking for a recount in Wisconsin counties where the Dominion Voting Systems machines were used.

Dominion Voting Systems has been a popular target among Trump and his supporters who have spread claims of election fraud.

Powell alleged that the Denver-based company that supplies voting machines across the United States used technology developed by Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013. She claimed votes were manipulated while being tabulated overseas to favor Joe Biden.

These claims have been disputed or debunked by numerous sources, including conservative media.

The company has disputed the assertions, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has said there is no evidence of foreign adversaries changing vote tallies, and The Wall Street Journal editorial board published a piece on Tuesday debunking claims that Dominion was part of widespread fraud.

The contents of the press conference, during which Giuliani, who referenced the movie “My Cousin Vinny” and battled black water-streaks running down the side of his face, appeared to astonish even many conservatives who urged Giuliani and Powell to produce hard evidence of their claims or risk casting doubt on the country’s democratic systems.

Fox News broadcast much of the press conference, while other major cable news networks did not.

“You cannot make an accusation like that without following it through by going to court and trying to prove it,” Karl Rove, a former aide to George W. Bush, said on Fox News. “If it’s left out there it will be both unfair to the president if it’s true, and unfair to the American people if it’s false.”

Kristin Fisher, a Fox News White House correspondent, said on the network that the press conference was “light on facts” and noted some of the allegations had already been dismissed in the courts.

Trump appears set on throwing into question the result of his defeat, or even making a last-ditch attempt to overturn it entirely.

The president on Tuesday night contacted a GOP member of the canvassing board in Wayne County, Mich., after she and another Republican on the board initially refused to certify election results. Wayne County, which is home to Detroit, is a Democratic stronghold.

Monica Palmer confirmed to The Washington Post that Trump called her Tuesday night after she and William Hartmann balked at approving the election results. The two eventually relented and certified the results, but on Wednesday both Palmer and Hartmann sought to rescind their certification.

Trump is poised to take things a step further in Michigan by inviting State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey to the White House. The invite was seen as yet another breach of norms by Trump as observers wondered whether the president would ask Shirkey to subvert the will of the voters by appointing pro-Trump electors for Michigan.

Shirkey’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s efforts are unlikely to change the outcome of the election, but they have led to serious concerns about damage to the nation’s democratic system.

Democrats have seized on Trump’s actions to argue his post-election efforts are doing harm to the country, and have sought to pressure GOP lawmakers to rein in the president or counter him.

“This is the path to fascism,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) tweeted, referencing news of Trump’s plan to meet with Michigan lawmakers. “This is no time for silence from GOP. Stand with your country. Condemn Trump for trying to topple democracy. Now.”

Republicans, for the most part, have not criticized Trump — though there have been exceptions.

Several GOP lawmakers made public their displeasure of Trump’s firing this week of Christopher Krebs, the administration’s top cybersecurity official.

“That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky,” Krebs tweeted Thursday afternoon.

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/526752-trump-attorneys-step-up-efforts-to-reverse-elections-outcome

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“They all knew it was false, Sean,” Sidney Powell told “Hannity“. “This was a deliberate, malevolent, concerted effort to destroy an honest man and thereby get to the president of the United States to destroy him.”

“There’s no doubt about it whatsoever,” Powell added.

MICHAEL FLYNN PROSECUTION: A TIMELINE OF TRUMP’S EX-NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER’S CASE

The Justice Department on Thursday moved to drop its case against Flynn after internal documents were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s plea of guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI.

In a court filing, the DOJ said it was moving to dismiss the case “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.”

DOJ officials said they concluded that the FBI interview of Flynn from which his guilty plea stemmed was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and that the interview was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”

READ: DOJ MOTION TO DISMISS FLYNN CASE

Powell encouraged viewers to read the documents for themselves.

“The government’s own reports, the agents’ own notes, they’re all attached as exhibits to the government’s filing today and our filings in the last 10 days or so,” Powell said.

“It’s important for people to see it for themselves,” she added. “The actual evidence in the government’s own handwriting and documents.”

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/media/sidney-powell-deliberate-malevolent-effort-destroy-flynn

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Whoever suspected that it would be DOCTORS in Federal agencies that would cripple the United States of America?  How did this happen?  Suddenly we’ve had governors, mayors, and county commissioners issuing unconstitutional “orders,” which if disobeyed can land you in jail as demonstrated by the lady salon owner in Dallas, Texas of all places.

Suddenly governors and other “local officials” have powers none of us ever realized.  They cannot be overturned by a court, at least not now.  And woe be to whoever considers “disobeying.”  In several instances, they’ve become angry and set out to accuse, humiliate, and punish anybody who steps out of line.  We don’t have or didn’t have, people with King-like powers over we little children, waiting patiently to find out what we can and can’t do; what we can and can’t think or say.

The President has been criticized and accused for supposedly behaving dictatorially.  There’s been no shortage of outrage on all the mainstream outlets, because Trump thinks he can make dictatorial decisions on any number of issues (true or otherwise), and we’re told we’re in danger of coming under a third-world dictatorship.  But now he’s not dictatorial enough, and the very same critics are outraged that he’s not issued national, uniform orders “to keep everybody safe.”  Oh yeah, we need to be led around by the hand, waiting for the latest “order,” or we’re guilty of endangering ourselves and everybody else.

Our founders never sanctioned this kind of power being exercised by any agency of federal or local government.  Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted to make sure the public would never become subservient to the whims, fears, or aspirations of officials.  Not that they might not try to justify the use of “emergency powers” for sake of public safety.  But here’s an analogy that is worth considering.  How many times have we seen “mandatory” evacuation orders based on the approach of a powerful hurricane?  Several if not many times, right?  But people sometimes choose not to abandon their property, whether they’re worried about looting, or they just reject the forecast.  Do you know of any circumstance where people have been prosecuted and jailed for failing to obey a “mandatory” evacuation?  No!  Because this is the United States of America!  Officials don’t get to punish people for things that are not, and could not be established as Constitutional law.  They’ve never even tried.  But as we all are reminded several times daily, these are “unprecedented times.”  Do tell.

One of the primary hurdles that any proposed law must clear in order to be declared Constitutional is that it apply to everyone equally.  How on earth do officials have the authority to declare some jobs “essential” and others not?  Is that hidden somewhere in the fine print of our Constitution?  No, it isn’t.  So there will be an explosion of lawsuits, with the resulting damages liable to bankrupt every city and state that imposed legal (or illegal) punishments for people and their jobs declared “non-essential.”  Millions (so far 20 million-plus) are unemployed because their line of work was declared “non-essential.”  If and when the judicial system ever figures out how to hold court again there will be legal challenges, probably thousands of them.  Legislatures are going to have to get busy and pass laws that prohibit suing states, counties, and cities for damages resulting from this.

None other than Ronald L. Dart stood before a church congregation some years back and related that one of the worst things that can happen to you is to have doctors or lawyers in control of your life.  Well, it seems that is exactly what has happened to all of us. Officials have had to take the nation to the brink of destruction in order to “keep everybody safe.”

Life wouldn’t have been much fun at all if Dr. Fauci had been keeping us all “safe.”  Think about it.  If you’ve ever enjoyed any activity during which some get injured or killed, and about 20 come to mind immediately, the doctors would undoubtedly recommend against it.  Thankfully, they haven’t been making our decisions for us, or life wouldn’t have been nearly so fulfilling.

But it turns out that the little doctor has quite a history of destroying those who dare disagree with him.  The social media giants are banning testimony that tells those stories from the victims’ perspective, but they’re making the rounds anyway. Surely the President cannot be unaware of these things.  Though he did declare a state of emergency under what was undoubtedly unbearable pressure, it was the governors and other local officials who’ve “mandated a shutdown.”  Whether the nation survives it, how many years it takes to compensate for the damage done we’ll just have to see.  Some governors had the good sense not to “mandate” everybody stay home.  Too bad there weren’t more.

The U. S. is not the only nation to have “shutdown” economically over the panic.  Britain is in historically dire straits.  The EU was already in big economic trouble and some believe this will further weaken the European Union to the point of collapse. Australia, Canada, and every so-called western nation is on the brink of economic collapse and it’s all somehow justified by the queer “numbers” of COVID cases and the purported death toll?

We’re all going to die someday, and we hope that day is way off in the unforeseeable future.  But this might be a good time to remember that the first lie ever told was in the garden of Eden when Satan told Eve, “You shall not surely die…”   Unless we’re alive at the Second Coming, we’re all going to die sooner or later.  But this is unacceptable in popular culture.  “People are dying!”  And they claim everybody who is dying is dying from you know what.  But, look it up if you must.  The death rate in nearly every circumstance is equal to or lower than the statistics from every other year.  How can that be when the bat flu is killing people right and left?  Shouldn’t the death rates increase by at least as many COVID deaths they’re reporting?  Kind of makes you go, hmmm, doesn’t it?  Maybe it’s the decrease in traffic deaths with so many “sheltering in place,” but it’s doubtful that makes up the difference.

The corruption of the alphabet agencies is coming to light through the belated release of notes and documents that have been purposely hidden (corruptly Classified).  Not that we hadn’t figured out exactly the unthinkable truth three years ago, but the media wouldn’t admit what was up.  They were lying through their teeth and pitying those of us who didn’t believe them.  Well, time’s up.  We’ve only waited three years, and the mainstream media still won’t accept what is plain on its face.  But it’s finally safe to respect General Flynn, who’s been completely exonerated (finally) thanks to one brilliant, no-nonsense lady attorney, Sidney Powell.  Thank God that there’s one fearless lady, unafraid to demand the truth and use the system to expose those who were running “the system.”  But that’s for another day, and a little good news is welcome.  But it’s not good news to the news anchors, and that’s good news too!  Thanks to all, and have a great Sabbath.

Mark

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