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Dan Pfeiffer

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

But the cover up the attempt to protect him from those allegations is a massive, massive scandal.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

That's so true of like so many other things.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

Like, I mean, there's just a different world with a different president, a different media environment where this is all we've talked about for a year and a half now, every single day.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

This all kicked off last summer, really.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

There are definitely lunatics outside the White House working on this.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

There are definitely lunatics inside the White House who are helping them do this.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

Whether Trump signs it or not, or actually comes out, open question.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

I really struggle to see what the legal basis for any of this is.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

As you mentioned, it's in the Constitution.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

They are, ironically enough, relying on the same statute that the tariffs were used for, the emergency power statute, which has no specific discussion of

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

elections or any of these things.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

There is no statutory power the president has, even in an emergency over elections.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

And there is no evidence of foreign involvement.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

This is based entirely on an intelligence report that Beijing considered, but then decided not to get involved in the 2020 election.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

That's it.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

In the 2026 election.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

There is some weird thing about how they were – like one of the conspiracy theories is they were going to make driver's licenses, fraudulent driver's licenses for people to vote by mail.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

But the point is it makes no sense.

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

I can't imagine –

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1127: Trump's Dangerous War Games

I don't put a ton of faith in the judiciary and the Supreme Court, but this seems quite – if you thought their interpretation of the law on the terrorists was absurd, this is like 10,000 times more absurd than that.