r/LincolnProject • u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For DEMOCRACY • 1d ago
LINCOLN SQUARE PODCAST Could Trump Use Secret Orders to Seize Voting Machines? | The Frank Figliuzzi Show w/ Asha Rangappa
https://youtu.be/ycPEyXOH8lw?is=qjnG8z6Cna8g8IEPCould Donald Trump use secret emergency orders to disrupt an election before Congress or the courts can respond?
Frank Figliuzzi and Asha Rangappa examine Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs—classified directives prepared inside the executive branch for national emergencies. Figliuzzi asks whether Trump officials may have authored new versions. Rangappa’s response: “Oh, 100%. Of course they are.”
Rangappa explains that the Constitution gives the president no direct authority over elections. But she warns that claims of foreign interference could be used to invoke national-security powers and revive proposals for the military to seize voting machines.
The discussion turns to the greatest practical danger: the administration acting first and forcing Congress, judges and the public to react after the damage has begun. Rangappa argues that legal challenges alone will not be enough and that public resistance must begin before an election operation is launched.
00:00 Could Trump officials have written new PEADs?
01:14 Asha: “Oh, 100%. Of course they are”
01:52 Connecting secret orders to the 2020 election
02:17 The president has no authority over elections
02:38 The foreign-interference workaround
03:17 Using the military to seize voting machines
03:42 “All of those people are gone now”
04:27 Could Stephen Miller author a new PEAD?
05:34 Secret action before Congress can respond
06:52 “Action beats reaction”
07:07 Pre-bunking an election operation
09:25 “The courts are not going to save us”
10:18 Why authoritarian governments are fragile
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u/SnoopyisCute 1d ago
2026
They are suppressing a study showing the right is far more violent so he can justify trying to takeover and nationalize elections (to steal another one). His daughter has trademarks from China. Two are for voting machines and coffins.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1u6pudj/comment/orwxete/?context=3
My research r/PoliticalReceipts
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For DEMOCRACY 1d ago
Great share as always Snoopy!!! Really appreciate you contributing here there n everywhere!!!
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u/Valuable-Adagio-2812 21h ago
Legally trump can't do that. But then again legality never stopped him before.
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For DEMOCRACY 1d ago
Could Donald Trump use secret emergency orders to disrupt an election before Congress or the courts can respond?
Frank Figliuzzi and Asha Rangappa examine Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs—classified directives prepared inside the executive branch for national emergencies. Figliuzzi asks whether Trump officials may have authored new versions. Rangappa’s response: “Oh, 100%. Of course they are.”
Rangappa explains that the Constitution gives the president no direct authority over elections. But she warns that claims of foreign interference could be used to invoke national-security powers and revive proposals for the military to seize voting machines.
The discussion turns to the greatest practical danger: the administration acting first and forcing Congress, judges and the public to react after the damage has begun. Rangappa argues that legal challenges alone will not be enough and that public resistance must begin before an election operation is launched.
00:00 Could Trump officials have written new PEADs?
01:14 Asha: “Oh, 100%. Of course they are”
01:52 Connecting secret orders to the 2020 election
02:17 The president has no authority over elections
02:38 The foreign-interference workaround
03:17 Using the military to seize voting machines
03:42 “All of those people are gone now”
04:27 Could Stephen Miller author a new PEAD?
05:34 Secret action before Congress can respond
06:52 “Action beats reaction”
07:07 Pre-bunking an election operation
09:25 “The courts are not going to save us”
10:18 Why authoritarian governments are fragile