Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

[BeaverFever]

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
 

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.

According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica, the meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity. The event was convened by Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and attended by Cleta Mitchell, who directs the Election Integrity Network, a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting. 

Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November. Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order, and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order that would ban mail-in ballots and get rid of voting machines as part of a federal takeover. Peter Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit, told ProPublica these actions were “all part of the same effort.” 

The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists — many not previously reported — stretching back to at least last fall, according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica. The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails, experts on U.S. elections said.

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government,” said Brendan Fischer, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization. “This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms or even go against the will of the voters.”

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https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms

 

More Republican phoney emergencies are in the works for President Reichstag Fire. 

[John Johnston]

17 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
 

 

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.

According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica, the meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity. The event was convened by Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and attended by Cleta Mitchell, who directs the Election Integrity Network, a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting. 

Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November. Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order, and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order that would ban mail-in ballots and get rid of voting machines as part of a federal takeover. Peter Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit, told ProPublica these actions were “all part of the same effort.” 

The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists — many not previously reported — stretching back to at least last fall, according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica. The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails, experts on U.S. elections said.

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government,” said Brendan Fischer, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization. “This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms or even go against the will of the voters.”

…

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms

 

More Republican phoney emergencies are in the works for President Reichstag Fire. 

17 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
 

 

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.

According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica, the meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity. The event was convened by Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and attended by Cleta Mitchell, who directs the Election Integrity Network, a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting. 

Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November. Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order, and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order that would ban mail-in ballots and get rid of voting machines as part of a federal takeover. Peter Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit, told ProPublica these actions were “all part of the same effort.” 

The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists — many not previously reported — stretching back to at least last fall, according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica. The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails, experts on U.S. elections said.

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government,” said Brendan Fischer, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization. “This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms or even go against the will of the voters.”

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https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms

 

More Republican phoney emergencies are in the works for President Reichstag Fire. 

The Republicans are not enough smart enough to realize that mail in ballots helps them immensely. Just a side note. 

[Reg Volk]

Election deniers - what were Democrats doing there?

[Hodad]

This will be alarming to some, but it's an alarm that has been ringing loudly for the last 5 years. They've been laying this groundwork pretty openly. Trump already has one coup attempt under his belt. The problem is that the plan hinged on one man, Mike Pence, who chose not to betray his country. So to avoid getting blocked in future they have been distributing people at all levels of government and election processes.

I think he will try it. And I think we'll be pushed to constitutional crisis again. And there's a very real possibility that 2024 was the last free and fair election of the United States era. I wish that were hyperbole, but he's already proven he will end democracy to retain power. We had the dress rehearsal. Republicans voted to give him another shot at it.

[WestCanMan]

Jasmine Crockett was in the front row with Hillary. And we all know who Bill was lookin' at.

[robosmith]

On 3/8/2026 at 3:56 PM, Reg Volk said:

Election deniers - what were Democrats doing there?

YOUR ^JOKE is not FUNNY. Everyone else knows it was Trump who denied the results of the 2020 election and used FAKE elector slates to TRY to over turn it.

Do you even know what that means, Canuck?

10 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Jasmine Crockett was in the front row with Hillary. And we all know who Bill was lookin' at.

So what? Ain't no crime in lookin'

[Nationalist]

Hilarious...

"AHHH! ORANGEMANBAD! DEMOCRACYYYY!!!"

What a bunch o' flakes.

[robosmith]

On 3/10/2026 at 2:25 AM, Nationalist said:

Hilarious...

"AHHH! ORANGEMANBAD! DEMOCRACYYYY!!!"

What a bunch o' flakes.

Only ^FASCISTS don't take election theft attempts seriously.

Like when Hitler made all OTHER political Parties ILLEGAL and US and Canadian citizens became ANTI-FASCISTS. 🤮