Trump’s former national security advisor shared a message asking the president to suspend the Constitution, impose martial law, and hold a new election
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Former national security advisor Michael Flynn shared an ad this week calling on President Donald Trump to “suspend the Constitution,” declare martial law, and have the military hold a new election.
The ad came from Tom Zawistowski, the president of a right-wing Ohio activist group called the We the People Convention (WTPC). In the ad, Zawistowski asked Trump “to exercise the Extraordinary Powers of his office and declare limited Martial Law to temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections in order to have the military implement a national re-vote that reflects the true will of the people.”
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The former national security advisor was recently pardoned after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI as part of the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election.
Before that, Flynn was a frequent surrogate for Trump on the 2016 campaign trail and made headlines for encouraging chants of “lock her up,” referring to former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has not been charged with any crime.
Now Flynn is one of several people in Trump’s orbit who have amplified unfounded claims in recent weeks that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump, there was widespread voter fraud, and the Democratic Party conspired with “big media” to rig the election in Biden’s favor.
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The Trump campaign and Republican officials have filed more than two dozen lawsuits across the country seeking to nullify the election results by making vague and ambiguous allegations of electoral malfeasance. They haven’t won a single case so far. And as of this week, the six battleground states that decided the election — Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — have all certified their results, confirming Biden’s victory.