US election: General Michael Flynn says Donald Trump could declare martial law in swing states

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: NZ Herald

17 Dec, 2020 08:51 PM
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NZ Herald


General Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump, has hinted the United States President could use the military to force an election "rerun" - saying "it's not unprecedented".

Speaking on the conservative Newsmax TV network, Flynn outlined the next steps available to Trump now that the Electoral College has officially confirmed President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the US election.

"There is no way in the world we are going to be able to move forward as a nation. [Trump] could immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these [voting] machines," Flynn said in apparent reference to the conspiracy theory that voting software flipped Trump votes for Biden.

"Within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states.

Read more: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-election-general-michael-flynn-says-donald-trump-could-declare-martial-law-in-swing-states/HLXSYSJB5P6IZXN3NHHGVRQDAU/

[FreepFryer]

1. Traitors don't get to hold our democracy hostage. Lock him up. (Nt)

[colorado_ufo]

2. Lock THEM up.

[rpannier]

4. "it's not unprecedented"

I missed the president who declared martial law and forced a rerun

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Me too!

[SoFlaBro]

6. It's not unprecedented that the nation had traitors in its midst

And needed a thorough clensing.

[COL Mustard]

16. He's Right. There Was The Case

Of old what's his name, back in the you remember whens. You know, that guy...no, maybe I'm thinking of the other guy.

Flynn long ago passed his sell-by date.

[llashram]

27. he's speaking of the "precedent" set

by many fascist nations down through history. My 'favourites', Nazi Germany and because the clown stinking up the WH with his grifting, scheming family greatly reminds me of that Hitler sycophant buffoon Benito Moosalini, Italy 1933-45.

[mdbl]

7. The asshole party strikes again.

Let your brains fall out now while you can still get pardoned Flynn. I have nothing nice to say about these people anymore. Also let's revoke his pardon later and throw him in jail. That's also not unprecedented right?

[still_one]

8. If the asshole keeps crap like this up, I won't be surprised if he will be involved in additional

illegal activities, where he won't have anyone to pardon him

[Auggie]

25. Well, he IS speaking out of his ass ...

[WePurrsevere]

9. "Not unprecedented"? WTF is this Trump nutter talking about?

Perhaps in some other country, like Russia, but never in US history that I can recall and I believe that doing a stunt like this over the election would violate the Constitution and states rights.

[ck4829]

12. I think he's talking about that one time where the election re-do happened in Imagination Land

[NYC Liberal]

21. Also...the Electoral College is where the actual election occurs.

They’ve voted. There’s no undoing that.

[Aussie105]

10. Yep.

Declare martial law, declare the election null and void, and do it again until you get the answer you want.
(But if you already know the election result you want, why have an election at all?)

Of course, you have just destroyed Democracy if you do that.

But we are all meant to sit around the campfire roasting chestnuts, and talk about the future and how we will embrace and forgive our enemies, right?

NUTS!

I'm hoping someone in the Biden camp has a list. With DWL (Deal With Later) next to a lot of the names.
Trump at the top, Flynn a close second.

[duforsure]

11. We'll see how much he wants to talk when he goes before judges,

And he makes his choices to lie again and face prison, or be truthful. I hope the courts allow him to be televised at his sentencing hearings. I'll be watching, He needs to be in prison for being a corrupt criminal.

[beachbumbob]

13. is Flynn tripping on bad acid?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

14. First order of buinsess for the new DOJ: Arrest Michael Flynn

on Jan 21.

[COL Mustard]

15. So, In The Name Of "Freedom"

Flynn wants to impose tyranny. Makes perfect sense.

How did this clown ever get to be a 3-star general? I've known a lot of 3-stars and he's by far the dumbest of them all. Hard to believe he was in Military Intelligence....(insert joke here)....

[cstanleytech]

17. Only time I can recall anything close to that was

after the Civil War but it had zero to do with forcing a new election to get the results you wanted in order to win.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

18. What to do next?

When Trump is gone, recall Flynn to active duty and make him face court martial for sedition. If found guilty, strip him of his rank and pension and send him to Leavenworth for 20 years. He can pin up his Trump pardon on the wall of his cell in solitary confinement.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. And Obama didn't do the same because ....?? /nt

[BunnyMcGee]

20. Wiki background

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

snip

Retirement from the military
On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later that year, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position. He was reportedly effectively forced out of the DIA after clashing with superiors over his allegedly chaotic management style and vision for the agency.[51][52][53][54] In a private e-mail that was leaked online, Colin Powell said he had heard in the DIA (apparently from later DIA director Vincent R. Stewart) that Flynn was fired because he was "abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc."[53] According to The New York Times, Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with the truth, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts".[55]

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[Maxheader]

22. I doubt the pentagon has stopped laughing...

and I doubt little more than a handful of extremists will stand up to a blackhawk with a minigun.

As americu needs against those threatening our constitution and peoples lives..

[newdayneeded]

23. trump

These are trumps words spoken right into Flynn's ear. This is a trial balloon!

[localroger]

24. The people who actually run the military have already spoken

They have said they will not interfere with the civilian electoral process, period. There is no way they would go along with this daffy idea. Flynn is saying this for an audience of one.

[llashram]

26. the nazi's are

trying to march right up to the doorsteps of 1600 to keep their fuhrer 2.0 in our house. Flynn as a retired officer of our military is one seditious traitorous bastard. Can't he be brought up on charges or something? I coud go to dr. google to se but those explantions are sometimes suspect. Jail him or something?

[Lonestarblue]

28. It's frightening that this man was ever a general in our military.

And the people Trump recently put in charge of the Pentagon are just as crazy. How does the military not weed out these irrational nuts before they ever reach a high rank? No one like Flynn should ever be in charge of troops or part of our national security.

[MineralMan]

29. Far too late. The EC has spoken, and

the orderly transition of power is underway. This idea was dead before it began.

[Crataegus]

30. Gen Milley allready addressed this

Gen Milley addressed this issue on Veterans Day.

[dware]

33. Yep,

I can just imagine the JCoS, the Officer's Corp, the NCO's are laughing their asses off saying, yeah, right, as if we're going to do that.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

31. Yep, definitely a traitor. n/t

[marie999]

32. I wish I could find a complete Constitution on the internet.

I have found plenty of incomplete ones, but I can't find the one that has the part where the president can declare martial law and make states redo their elections for president.

[Omaha Steve]

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