Dan Pfeiffer
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But the cover up the attempt to protect him from those allegations is a massive, massive scandal.
That's so true of like so many other things.
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.
This all kicked off last summer, really.
There are definitely lunatics outside the White House working on this.
There are definitely lunatics inside the White House who are helping them do this.
Whether Trump signs it or not, or actually comes out, open question.
I really struggle to see what the legal basis for any of this is.
As you mentioned, it's in the Constitution.
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
elections or any of these things.
There is no statutory power the president has, even in an emergency over elections.
And there is no evidence of foreign involvement.
This is based entirely on an intelligence report that Beijing considered, but then decided not to get involved in the 2020 election.
In the 2026 election.
There is some weird thing about how they were β 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.
But the point is it makes no sense.
I can't imagine β
I don't put a ton of faith in the judiciary and the Supreme Court, but this seems quite β if you thought their interpretation of the law on the terrorists was absurd, this is like 10,000 times more absurd than that.