Trump News: They claim that Trump evaluated applying martial law to annul Biden's victory

Trump News: They claim that Trump evaluated applying martial law to annul Biden's victory

According to two US media, the outgoing president would have listened and thought about the measure after the victory of his opponent in the presidential elections.

 

The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, considered invoking martial law to annul the November 3 elections, in which he was defeated against Democrat Joe Biden, The New York Times and Trump News reported today,  a few days before the expected transition of government in that country.

 

According to both media, this idea emerged during a heated meeting on Friday at the White House, in which Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser and who was prosecuted in the framework of the investigation into the so-called "Russian plot", participated.

 

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On Thursday, in an interview on the ultraconservative channel Newsmax, Flynn argued that the president has the power to deploy the United States Armed Forces in the key states where Biden had success to retry the voting there.

 

According to media correspondents, which states a couple of sources informed with the situation, one moment in the rendezvous on Friday at the White House, Trump became interested in the speculation that Flynn had formerly created.

 

On CNN they also stated that this idea came up during the meeting, but he explains that Trump's words made it unclear whether he supported the idea of ​​invoking martial law.

 

Straight away, many reps of the president denied the possibility of directive martial law.

 

In response to the reports, Trump lashed out at the media on Twitter, where at dawn he claimed they were false facts, being that "It's just more malicious news!"

 

Martial law = Fake News. Just more knowingly bad reporting!

 

TrumpNews, who will have to leave power on January 20, so far has not acknowledged his defeat in the elections and has filed several lawsuits in key states to allege, without evidence, that there was electoral fraud in the vote by mail, used by millions of Americans due to the pandemic.

 

What is martial law?

Martial law is a set of exceptional and extraordinary measures that imply that the entire country is under the control of the Armed Forces.

 

In the United States, both the president and the governors of each of the 50 states of the country have the power to invoke martial law; but the chief executive cannot do it unilaterally and needs congressional approval, according to a study by the Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University.

 

The last time the United States federal government imposed martial law was in Hawaii, in 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.