'What's he confessing to?' Trump's Mike Johnson 'secret' draws Electoral College concerns

[turbinetree]

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Published October 28, 2024 11:18 AM ET

Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Donald Trump telling “scores of lies.”

The racist broadside was from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who also told the MAGA crowd: "And these Latinos, they love making babies, too, just know that. They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country."

As Mediaite reported, Hinchcliffe, pointing to a Black man in the audience, "went with what seemed like an off-the-cuff 'joke.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/whats-he-confessing-to-trumps-mike-johnson-secret-draws-electoral-college-concerns/

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But during those 80 minutes Donald Trump made one statement that has constitutional law and other experts concerned.

Referencing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Trump said: "I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House, our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over."


Trump at everyone of his fascist get togethers always will say something..............and this is his modus operandi..........always........GET OUT AND VOTE

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Johnson is as bad as Trump, He will try to pull something to keep the majority, but in the end it won't work.

[valleyrogue]

33. Johnson is the one these whack jobs really want.

He is a Christian Reconstructionist, a theocrat, of the worst sort. He actually believes the garbage he was raised with.

A number of months ago, Frank Schaeffer did a video about him and why Johnson is so dangerous.

[MacKasey]

2. That's just crap that he is pulling out of his ass

[servermsh]

7. Exactly. Trump is a moron and everyone treats him as a genious n/t

[Autumn]

9. No it's not. It's not even a fucking concept. It's a plan.

“We gotta get the congressmen elected and we gotta get the senators elected, because we can take the Senate pretty easily, and I think with our little secret we’re going to do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact,” Trump said while looking in Johnson’s direction.

Appearing to point at the House speaker, the former president added, “He and I have a secret. We’ll tell you what it is when the race is over.”

Link to tweet

If you aren't nervous about this election you better get nervous. Listening to that rally made me sick.

[StarryNite]

23. Yes, it's a mistake to underestimate him.

[Autumn]

25. We know that people in Congress were in on Jan6. There's a reason none

of them were investigated by the DOJ and FBI

[orthoclad]

3. We voted harder last time

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What we need is enforcement, not coddling and cozying up to right-wingers. Forget reaching across the aisle, reach out to the poor and disempowered.

T recruits the people with guns: militias, cops, military. Be wary.

[PatrickforB]

15. Yes, many of these dirtbags need to be investigated, indicted, tried and convicted of various crimes. n/t

[Initech]

4. Mike Johnson is the worst speaker we've ever had.

And yes, that includes scumbag Newt Gingrich. At least Newt didn't pimp for the enemy.

[pat_k]

5. My guess? Attempt to throw it to the House somehow

Trump is so stupid he thinks throwing it to the house will be a piece of cake. He probably said something like, if it goes to the house will we win? And Johnson said, "sure!"

The "if" being the sticker.

[Lonestarblue]

12. The secret may be a plan to prevent the certifying of enough electors for Harris so that she does not have 270.

If the number of electors is tied, e.g., 269-269, the election goes to the House where Trump would win because Republicans hold an advantage in total states. It’s one vote per state. Johnson has no control over the state electors, but state Republicans sure do. That’s where the cheating will be, but the courts will be involved if Republicans in a swing state like Wisconsin, for example, refuse to certify a Harris win. The governor is a Democrat but I don’t know how much control he has over certification of electors.

Edited to add this link about the 2022 Act revising some Electoral College procedures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022

[pat_k]

14. Yep

Trump is too stupid to realize the chances of pulling it off are nil. They've installed some crazy judges but not enough at the state appeals and state supreme court level are crazy enough to go along. Even their own lawyers are very skittish about the possibility of losing licenses and going to jail.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. It will be interesting to see

if they can pull off a situation to use the 12th amendment to throw the outcome of the election to the U.S. House.....

[dalton99a]

6. Johnson is a goddamn snake

[PatrickforB]

16. What kills me is he calls himself a Christian, but he seems like those whitewashed tombs Jesus spoke of -

Clean on the outside, but on the inside filled with decay and death. All you have to do is listen to the snake Johnson speak and you can smell the moral rot.

[Wednesdays]

8. Mike Johnson will likely not be Speaker of the House on January 6, 2025.

Okay, so what was that secret plan again, DonOLD?

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Yeah, not only does it require the GOP to keep

It's majority. It requires the House to vote for Johnson as speaker again.

If the GOP keeps it's majority, they are still a disorganized, rowdy and contentious group. Not sure Johnson has enough supporters in the House to get voted in again.

[TommyT139]

13. If Trump wants Johnson, it'll be Johnson.

Of course the Republican congressmen heard that shout-out too.

[GenThePerservering]

31. CongressMEN?

Is that like "stewardess"? They've got some horrible women in there, too.

[TommyT139]

34. Not at all...

But the rethug opinion leaders in the House are nearly all men, especially those who seem to be in communication with Trump and his cronies, conspiring to destroy the country. Elise Stefanik may be an exception, although I sense she may lay low in hopes of surviving if things go bad. And to me, MTG is more a "bomb-thrower" than savvy conspirator (pun intended). Horrible, but not powerful.

(Also, who uses "stewardess" anymore? Geez.)

[LiberalFighter]

26. I don't see that happening.

[surfered]

11. Speaker Johnson was up to his eyeballs in

The amicus brief to the Supreme Court to overturn the election and the attempt by the House to not certify the Electoral College vote.

[ancianita]

18. The little secret stays in place whether we set record GOTV or not. The secret lies with the certification delay plan.

Paid for by Elon, Thiel and dark money.

[orthoclad]

20. Who holds the power?

from the Congressional Budget Office:



Money is power. It gushes up.

[ancianita]

21. The 28 state republican caucuses. It's about their plan to delay certification from precinct to Secs of State.

Thing is, they can be monitored and judges in the states can make them stop their BS claims and do their jobs. But courts also take time. Elias has beaten fraud claims 61 times at state levels, and more again in the last few months.

The trump/johnson team want such massive court delays that the nation can't get 50 states' certifications of the vote to Congress by Jan 6 -- so the "peaceful transfer of power" is delayed.

And then what. I don't know. On the one hand I would hope that long before that, Biden pulls an "official act" out of his presidential hat and, between election day and Jan 6, has the Garland DOJ, CISA, and FBI on high alert while the party's legal teams expedite state cases.

If I'm wrong and they have another secret, I've no idea what it could be, except that when Trump claims victory on Nov 6, violence of a new kind begins here, or upkicks in Ukraine or Israel.

[orthoclad]

22. If we have to rely on the "Garland DOJ" gods help us

remember, the director of the fbi was appointed by T. The fbi that really really really didn't want to raid maralago.

wiki:
On June 7, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Wray to replace James Comey as Director of the FBI. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, and took office on August 2. Wray is a registered Republican.[3]

[ancianita]

24. DU has talked about this before. And I'll remind you of a few posts about the Garland DOJ...

First, for broad context...

The international work of Garland's DOJ: from Main Justice https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence

Second, for domestic election contexts...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-four-cases-brought-election-threats-task-force

Third, I've posted these sites, which are updated all the time...

https://www.justice.gov/voting

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/election-crimes

https://www.cisa.gov/topics/election-security


They are on high alert, and so are the 55 nationwide FBI field offices:
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/@@castle.cms.querylisting/6bd7cedb14f545e3a984775195ea3d30

You can't even think that because you don't see what's going on behind the "news" scenes, that nothing is happening.
It's a big country with huge election moving parts, and you can't even think about laying blame on Garland when first and foremost, it's the states' chain of possession people who have to do their legal constitutional duty.

[jaxexpat]

19. As Trump digs his own grave, he's plotting to have others occupy it for him. No surprise there.

He's never committed to respect the election results. Most remain unimpressed with his little melodramas. The crazy fucker's counting on his minions to cause unrest. The only fear is that Joe may not act quickly enough to quash any momentum these cabalists engender. If he awaits advice from the AG, there could be serious civil unrest in some cities, the kind unseen since 1865, before Garland even gets his copy of "History of Government for Dummies" turned to the right page.

It's unprecedented but it's definitely on the executive's plate to handle and at that level of government, we have an institutional record for failing to protect our own democracy with the great urgency it requires. There's nothing to be gained by hand wringing or worrying about another Waco or Ruby Ridge. It may be informative to contemplate how failure to remove Andrew Johnson via impeachment has a lot to do with the impetus for our current national night-sweats. There is surely adequate reasonable evidence for probable cause to arrest enough of the current Republican house majority to temper that majority.

[applegrove]

27. Meant to spark conspiracy thinking in people in an

attempt to make them susceptible to more conspiracies.

[Hassler]

28. I wonder if Katy Turd or Maga Haberman will ask MAGA Mike?

[bdamomma]

29. Heads up

or red alert, to his little secret with Mike Johnson. The felon will say or do anything to lie, steal and cheat to get in power. Dictator on Day 1, believe him.

All the more reason to VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blue Owl]

30. Fuck all these Nazi motherfuckers to hell

Seriously, didn’t we eradicate this toxic poison during WWIi?

[GenThePerservering]

32. I think we all know his "little secret"

he's so dumb - it's obviously to try to flip the election to the House.