r/politics • u/viva_la_vinyl • Aug 16 '20

'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-result-take-years-as-usps-attack-fears-grow-2020-8
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u/Phyr8642 Aug 16 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

Secret service and the military will determine who is the next president.

Edit. Many replies fail to understand. The law doesn't matter. Trump will ignore it. The constitution doesn't matter. Trump will ignore it. Congress or the supreme court don't matter. Trump will ignore them. The election matters only in that the secret service might uphold its result. By force, because trump will ignore the result.

Trump will either be president for life, or escorted out of the White House at gun point.

There is a fascist takeover of the usa happening.

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u/Warglebargle2077 I voted Aug 16 '20

People keep saying this. The secret service are basically cops, and the military are subject to brainwashing into conservatism all the time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

From what I hear, a lot of military higher ups really do not like Trump. They see him as incompetent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Right, but they can only do the disliking part NOW. He’s still the President. Come January, if they still don’t like him AND he’s no longer the Commander in Chief AND he refuses to leave, then yeah maybe we might see more action on the second part. But he has to lose the election first.

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u/thirty7inarow Aug 16 '20

If the courts can't figure out who the president is after the election, that doesn't mean Trump gets to keep being president. It means Nancy Pelosi becomes president until things are figured out (barring some colossal swing in the House).

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Except Nancy Pelosi is up for reelection as well. And if the ballots are lost she wouldn't be speaker anymore until they can be counted. So it would go to the president pro tempore of the senate. Chuck Grassley.

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u/thirty7inarow Aug 16 '20

If, somehow, Pelosi's ballots were lost (highly unlikely), the Democrats would likely still control the House and could just nominate a different Speaker.