The Mike Johnson secret that Trump referred to at his Nazi rally might be this. [View all]

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Just a guess based on what we know about MAGA manipulations for power.

[UPDATE for accuracy.
It was pointed out to me in a post by Fiendish Thingy that my scenario about the election ending up in the House for resolution on a contingency vote is very unlikely due to changes in federal law via ACRA after the J6 insurrection. That makes my guess about the "Johnson secret" invalid.

I am not deleting the thread, though, because Trump and the MAGA movement that backs him still present a serious threat to the election results, even if my guess about how the threat will play out regarding Mike Johnson is not accurate.

Maybe someone else has a better idea of how the Trump, Vance, Thiel, Heritage Foundation will try to subvert the election results. Because of J6 and the Trump/Vance wealthy far right backers, I take Trump's refusal to accept any outcome other than a win for himself very seriously. So the rest of my OP stands as originally written, despite my error on how a subversion might be carried out.]

We know that they plan to create enough chaos around the election to claim a victory for Trump. One expectation is that they will push to throw the election to the House. Another is that they will just hold up certification through refusals, court cases, and various delays until J6 passes by with no certification.

If they can stall long enough to prevent a winner for inauguration on J20, the presidency of Joe Biden and the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris will officially end at noon on J20. Speaker Mike Johnson is next in line for the presidency. They might get a SC ruling to affirm that Johnson would succeed Biden.

With Johnson in control of the WH and the SC backing MAGA decisions, Johnson and the SC could decide that Trump was the official winner and that Johnson was just a fill in until the outcome was decided. Then Trump would be inaugurated.

With Johnson in the WH and then Trump, they would have control of the reins of government and the military for a response to protests. That removes the problem of Biden being in control when they stage their coup.

Hope that I am wrong, but this scenario fits what we know about the MAGA delay and chaos tactics AND Trump's comment about a secret with Johnson.

OR, the secret could be simpler. It could be just a refusal by Johnson to swear in the House winners before J6, with the excuse that the outcomes are too uncertain. When the election gets thrown to the House due to delay tactics and chaos around who won, there would be enough MAGAs there to give the election to Trump.

It would be technically constitutional because it would rely on constitutional provisions for "uncertain" or challenged elections. So what would Biden's recourse be to such a deliberate bad faith use of the constitution?