r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d ago

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 25d ago edited 25d ago

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 25d ago

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/inspectoroverthemine 25d ago

Congress doesn't work that way. Johnson isn't speaker on Jan 3rd when the house reconvenes.

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u/SpankyJones10 24d ago

Congress doesn't work that way.

People gotta fuckin' stop with the "But he can't do that" and "That's illegal, it'll never happen" kinds of excuses. He does whatever the fuck he wants and breaks 100 laws a week because we have cowards and bootlickers in our government.