Salon: Trump's desperate attempts to escape legal and political trouble could lead America to catast

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It will not surprise me at all if he tries this after the midterms and he suggests the outcomes are illegitimate. So if Trump attempts to declare Martial Law can he be shut down? What are the procedures? Can the military tell him to fuck off? Can the FBI arrest him for attempting to undermine American Democracy? This could lead to a civil war as violence would erupt all over the place.


Trump’s desperate attempts to escape legal and political trouble could lead America to catastrophe

We should prepare against any drastic measures from war to martial law Trump may undertake to escape his crises

JULY 31, 2018 4:47PM (UTC)


Is it now time to imagine how far Trump and his Republican cronies in Congress might be able to push things? And how we, as Americans, might respond?

This isn’t the first time such a question has been raised.

A bit more than a week before the election of 2016 — a week before Trump won the election — one of the few people on earth who’s really and truly studied Donald Trump up close and personal, Tony Schwartz, granted an interview to the British newspaper the Independent.

Schwartz, who wrote Trump’s book "The Art of the Deal" and spent months with Trump to gather information for the book, predicted that Trump would declare martial law.Not as a possibility, but as a near-certainty.

Schwartz predicted that Trump would do three specific things, although not necessarily all at once or in any particular order: He’d attack the free press; he’d compile an enemies list and begin getting revenge on those he thinks slighted him; and he’d declare martial law to solidify his power.

More: https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/trump-is-in-major-legal-and-political-trouble-his-desperate-attempts-to-escape-it-could-lead-america-to-catastrophe_partner/

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1. The article is three months old, so we can see how it's been going.

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2. I know the article is a few months old but I posted it because of Bernstein's comments

As the elections could be a catalyst for Trump ramping up the insanity:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211354737

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3. Is H A Goodman still a featured writer for Salon?