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CousinIT

(12,278 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 02:28 PM 21 hrs ago

Did Trump Just Reveal His Plans To Steal The 2026 Midterm Elections?

https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-election-scheme

A top producer for MSNOW Weeknight is sounding the alarm about a comment President Donald Trump made during his extensive interview with the New York Times that is telling about his 2026 intentions.

Kyle Griffin, executive producer of Weeknight, wrote on X that the detail was a "BIG FLAG.""Trump said during his interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election. He doubted whether the Guard was 'sophisticated enough' to carry out the order effectively," Griffin said.

. . .

Trump's new plans included forcing Republican state lawmakers to redraw congressional lines in Republicans' favor. That step, however, was only the beginning. Trump is also pushing to make voter registration more difficult and end the use of voting machines and mail-in ballots.

"The administration has gutted the role of the nation’s cybersecurity agency in protecting elections; stocked the Justice Department, Homeland Security Department and FBI from top to bottom with officials who have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election; given a White House audience to people who, like the president, promote the lie that he won the 2020 election; sued over state and local election policies that Trump opposes; and called for a new census that excludes noncitizens," the Post explained.

"The wide-ranging efforts seek to expand on some of the strategies he and his advisers and allies used to try to reverse the 2020 results that culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021," the report added.
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Did Trump Just Reveal His Plans To Steal The 2026 Midterm Elections? (Original Post) CousinIT 21 hrs ago OP
Nothing most or all of us didn't already know! bluestarone 20 hrs ago #1
And that... 2naSalit 20 hrs ago #2
Can we organize people to protect voting machines at elections? lastlib 20 hrs ago #3
Each state needs to pre-empt him by... lame54 20 hrs ago #4
I agree they should.... lastlib 18 hrs ago #8
He has no authority to end the use of mail in ballots Fiendish Thingy 19 hrs ago #5
But if he seizes voting machines before votes are tabulated...... lastlib 18 hrs ago #6
"He doubted whether the Guard was 'sophisticated enough' to carry out the order effectively," OldBaldy1701E 18 hrs ago #7
Election suppression and election fraud is absolutely their plan for 2026. nt hay rick 18 hrs ago #9
K&R UTUSN 17 hrs ago #10
Pedo Trump is terrorizing Farmer-Rick 17 hrs ago #11
Trump revealed his plan when he told his voters B.See 17 hrs ago #12

2naSalit

(100,129 posts)
2. And that...
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 02:44 PM
20 hrs ago

Bridedaughterprincess owns many patents or licenses for a shit load of them?

lastlib

(27,588 posts)
3. Can we organize people to protect voting machines at elections?
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 03:20 PM
20 hrs ago

It would be a huge job, but our democracy may depend on it.

lame54

(39,221 posts)
4. Each state needs to pre-empt him by...
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 03:28 PM
20 hrs ago

Deploying the national guard to protect and prevent removal

Fiendish Thingy

(22,119 posts)
5. He has no authority to end the use of mail in ballots
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 03:42 PM
19 hrs ago

His EO’s to that effect have been ignored.

Sure, some red states have eagerly complied and done their part to legalize voter suppression, but it won’t save the republicans from an apocalypse at the ballot box in November,

lastlib

(27,588 posts)
6. But if he seizes voting machines before votes are tabulated......
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:15 PM
18 hrs ago

There's no end to what he could do to fuck up/steal the election. We HAVE TO PROTECT them!

OldBaldy1701E

(10,250 posts)
7. "He doubted whether the Guard was 'sophisticated enough' to carry out the order effectively,"
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:27 PM
18 hrs ago

Translation: He was not certain they would be as ruthless and out of control as he wanted them to be.

hay rick

(9,372 posts)
9. Election suppression and election fraud is absolutely their plan for 2026. nt
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:29 PM
18 hrs ago

It's why they are indifferent to plunging popularity. Their plan is that it won't make any difference.

Farmer-Rick

(12,493 posts)
11. Pedo Trump is terrorizing
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:40 PM
17 hrs ago

Venezuela, Greenland and NATO. He is murdering and abusing citizen of US liberal cities.

Every day he is personally directing another destruction of justice, an abuse of domestic tranquility, deterioration of our common defense and general welfare. He and people like him are the very reason why the US Constitution was written.

Of course he is going to rig, manipulate and steal the elections. Probably worse than what the GOP has done in the past. He is never going to let us vote again. Oh, he'll make it look like we voted but it won't count just like the votes didn't count in 2025, 2000, or 2004.

B.See

(7,832 posts)
12. Trump revealed his plan when he told his voters
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 05:49 PM
17 hrs ago

vote this one last time and you won't have to vote again. So-called analysts and pundits tried to spin it into meaning something else, but he meant what he said. Again... Trump doesn't joke.

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