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haele

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16. There are ways he can try. Here's the issue.

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 12:44 PM

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If he tries, causing chaos and confusion, he can de-legitimize or throw to the courts the results in some states or districts.
He's using the Andrew Jackson/Unitary Executive playbook - the laws may direct one thing, but who's going to enforce those laws?

The Courts who might be in his pocket, or his pet police force that used to be the Department of Justice?

And it's quite obvious the Legislative branch is not willing to put any brakes on him or his moneyed backers. Especially if he tells Johnson and Thune to just not allow the any new Democratic members of Congress to be seated because the DOJ is investigating election fraud in those states or districts.

That's where the concern about elections going forward can come from.

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