"He could be championing this story, but instead leaving Washington with conspiracy theories and things so nutty and loopy that people are shaking their head wondering what in the world has gotten into this man?" Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2012, added: "It's really sad in a lot of respects, and embarrassing, because the president could, right now, be writing the last chapter of this administration with a victory lap." over the historic vaccine rollout. "It's not going to happen," the Republican senator and frequent Trump critic Mitt Romney said bluntly on CNN's "State of the Union," adding, "It's going nowhere."
Trump, in any case, would need congressional approval to invoke martial law, according to a study earlier this year by the Brennan Center for Justice.īut accounts of the extraordinary meeting - which reportedly devolved at times into "screaming matches" - raised eyebrows across Washington, drawing strong condemnation from some quarters while others were left shaking their heads in dismay. military in determining the outcome of an American election," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff James McConville said in a statement Friday. Several senior military officers have made clear they would take no part in any effort to overturn the results of an election that has been certified by every state and confirmed by the Electoral College. Trump denied reports about the Friday meeting in a tweet shortly after midnight Saturday, saying, "Martial law = Fake News. Present at the fractious Oval Office meeting was retired General Michael Flynn, who was briefly the national security advisor before resigning under pressure, admitting to lying to the FBI, and then, in November, being pardoned by Trump.įlynn recently told a Newsmax television interviewer that Trump could "take military capabilities and place them in those (battleground) states and basically rerun our election." Multiple reports said Trump also considered seizing election machines to inspect them and naming Sidney Powell, a lawyer for his campaign team who has put forward outlandish conspiracy theories, as a special counsel to keep digging into Trump's unsubstantiated allegations of mass election fraud. Trump has stayed largely out of sight as several hugely consequential matters play out in the United States: from a massive cyberattack to high-stakes talks on a huge Covid-19 relief package to the rollout of a historic vaccine campaign.īut, according to accounts in The New York Times, CNN and The Wall Street Journal, the president found time Friday to oversee a turbulent White House meeting to discuss new ways to resist or overturn Biden's victory - with the idea of deploying the military to assist in his fight raised, before being shot down. WASHINGTON: With one month to go until Joe Biden takes office, Donald Trump remains fixated on his failed bid to overturn the 2020 election - with his advisors reportedly floating the idea of invoking martial law, triggering outrage and disbelief in Washington. General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, speaks during a pro-Trump rally in Washington on he has advocated use of martial law to 'rerun' the November election.
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