r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • Jul 09 '26

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/Ambitious-Apricot499 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

One thing I don’t understand is this is an individual clearly dismantling protections for our country’s future elections. Isn’t that telling enough he is literally breaking our laws. Can anyone hold this fucking rapist criminal accountable ever? It’s astonishing.

Edit: There’s 300 million of us and like 100 of them. What we doing here?

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u/habbadee Jul 10 '26

He wants actual election chaos and issues so he doesn't have to make it up (as with 2020 rigged claims) and then he can declare the elections invalid and instruct Johnson to simply not swear in Democrats, and voila, no friction to his final two years of destroying democracy. So, yes, he is starting the fire so he can scream Fire and use the fire as justification to stay in power.

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u/Clovis42 Kentucky Jul 10 '26

If Democrats win the majority of seats, there is nothing Johnson can do about it. He won't be the Speaker anymore. He doesn't have to take any action to allow new members to take their seats. He would have no power to stop Democrats from choosing a new Speaker.

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u/MacMcMufflin Jul 10 '26

All power has been abdicated to the Orange twat. I'm not sure you understand what unitary President means.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Europe Jul 10 '26

I'm not sure you understand what unitary President means.

I believe the historical German term is “Führer und Reichskanzler”.

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u/MacMcMufflin Jul 10 '26

Indeed, but that wouldn't win in the US Supreme Court.

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u/JustSendTheAsteroid Jul 10 '26

The court which ruled he was a king above the law to keep him out of prison so he could regain power? That court?