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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,954 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 02:24 PM Oct 2025

Trump's 'election integrity' chief claimed president has future powers to declare voting emergency

It was clear from the outset that Donald Trump’s administration would include high-ranking government officials who either endorsed his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, or refused to publicly admit he lost.

The president continues to hammer a baseless narrative that the election was rigged against him, vowing publicly that it must never “happen again” as he deploys officials to prepare for midterm elections with the balance of power in Congress — and his agenda — at stake.

Before she was tapped as Trump’s “election integrity” official at the Department of Homeland Security, Heather Honey reportedly told a group of right-wing activists in March that the president could declare a “national emergency” to effectively take control of local election administration.

She said the move would follow an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election, if it revealed “manipulation” of the results, according to The New York Times, which had a recording of the call.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-election-integrity-chief-claimed-164442035.html

He also has powers to predict hurricanes and cure cancer.

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Trump's 'election integrity' chief claimed president has future powers to declare voting emergency (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
Heather Honey... ultralite001 Oct 2025 #1
Well, she is prostituting his lies about the 2020 election, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2025 #2
"Heather Honey"? Seriously? Ocelot II Oct 2025 #3
🤣🤣🤣 ultralite001 Oct 2025 #4
. dalton99a Oct 2025 #5
States run their elections, PERIOD. Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #6
Trumps real "Emergency" would be his overwhelming Unpopularity next year, due to Ars Longa Oct 2025 #7

MarineCombatEngineer

(18,096 posts)
2. Well, she is prostituting his lies about the 2020 election,
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 02:31 PM
Oct 2025

so I guess in a way, she is a prostitute, figuratively speaking.

Ocelot II

(130,677 posts)
3. "Heather Honey"? Seriously?
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 02:31 PM
Oct 2025

Probably her real name is something like Gertrude Dingleberger, but she knew she couldn’t get a job with the Trump administration with that name, even after getting botox and lip filler and hair extensions.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,320 posts)
6. States run their elections, PERIOD.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 03:13 PM
Oct 2025

Not even the insurrection act allows for suspension of elections.

Elections were held during the Civil War and in the aftermath of 9/11.

Ars Longa

(532 posts)
7. Trumps real "Emergency" would be his overwhelming Unpopularity next year, due to
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 03:47 PM
Oct 2025

the crazy-chaotic downslide HE has forced on the Nation!
The Correlating question to that would be, IF the American People can somehow stave-off a
nakedly-obvious Nation-wide VoteCounting-Manipulation scheme from being forced on us!!

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