Analyst: Trump doesn’t have legal power to do what he’s threatening

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down the legality of President Donald Trump's claims during a Fox News interview that there will be law enforcement sent to polling places on Election Day. #CNN #News

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  1. All Trump’s threats will lead to him in a prison cell with Bannon 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    1. @Lana Kahl I should say you have no idea what Biden has done. He’s a creep a everyone in DC knows he’s a perv.

    2. Shoot Bannon might help put him there with that wall scam, don’t think for a minute that Trump didn’t know about it, that’s Y the SDNY wants his tax records for the last 8-10yrs because his businesses were committing scams before he became pres.

    1. @Robert Clawson And as promised, in Joes first term as President, he will be showing his taxes. That’s trump btw, not Joe, he’s already shown his.

    1. Republicans have turned over all of THEIR Power of the House and Senate to Donald Trump’ essentially becoming a COMMUNIST OR FASCIST PARTY.. Is that what we want AMERICANS?  It’s definitely not what the Democratic party wants… Another Hitler or Mussolini… No thank you
      VOTE!

    2. He’s a loser. He tried to prove 2016 was rigged and come up with nothing but that doesn’t stop him from lying.

    3. @Sampiro Locke BTW, Democrats do not want open borders. Y’all believe anything Trump says. It’s ridiculous. It’s just a way for him to rile up racists.

  2. He hasn’t had legal power to do a lot of things, but sadly, no one is stopping him. Our government is filled with a bunch amoral spineless losers.

    1. @Alan Flint I don’t buy it. I watch CNN every day for 40 years so I understand why you would say that. Here is why I disagree.. Trump manages the international border police. The US is a Republic so governors and mayors had to do internal lockdowns. They didn’t crack down with police like China did. They caved and let people leave, infecting the rest of the nation. Trump cannot. That is illegal unless he is asked to intercede. He wasn’t. He always asked Fauci for advice and Fauci has his experience with Swine Flu to rely on. That failed. Covid is much more infectious than Swine Flu. Trump did the air, border lockdowns and quarantines. By the book. Yet it had already had come into the US with 360,000 people coming into the US from the time the WHO said it was not contagious, a lie, and when Trump shut down the border. Democratic leaders tried to stop the air travel bans and told people not to worry about covid right up until it was declared a pandemic. Fauci was the one not wearing a mask on TV at the White House, baseball games and not social distancing. Fauci set the parameters to open up. Trump was following Fauci’s guidelines to open. It was still the governors’ and mayors’ decision to open. I was there on beach on Memorial Day with a mask while thousands of young Democrats in my state of California did whatever they wanted. They don’t listen to anyone. They are young, invincible and do whatever they want.

    2. @Robert Clawson you ought to read the whole of this:
      https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

      In the first half of 2020, SARS‑CoV‑2—the new coronavirus behind the disease COVID‑19—infected 10 million people around the world and killed about half a million. But few countries have been as severely hit as the United States, which has just 4 percent of the world’s population but a quarter of its confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths. These numbers are estimates. The actual toll, though undoubtedly higher, is unknown, because the richest country in the world still lacks sufficient testing to accurately count its sick citizens.

      Despite ample warning, the U.S. squandered every possible opportunity to control the coronavirus. And despite its considerable advantages—immense resources, biomedical might, scientific expertise—it floundered. While countries as different as South Korea, Thailand, Iceland, Slovakia, and Australia acted decisively to bend the curve of infections downward, the U.S. achieved merely a plateau in the spring, which changed to an appalling upward slope in the summer. “The U.S. fundamentally failed in ways that were worse than I ever could have imagined,” Julia Marcus, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, told me.

      Since the pandemic began, I have spoken with more than 100 experts in a variety of fields. I’ve learned that almost everything that went wrong with America’s response to the pandemic was predictable and preventable. A sluggish response by a government denuded of expertise allowed the coronavirus to gain a foothold. Chronic underfunding of public health neutered the nation’s ability to prevent the pathogen’s spread. A bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared for the ensuing wave of sickness. Racist policies that have endured since the days of colonization and slavery left Indigenous and Black Americans especially vulnerable to COVID‑19. The decades-long process of shredding the nation’s social safety net forced millions of essential workers in low-paying jobs to risk their life for their livelihood. The same social-media platforms that sowed partisanship and misinformation during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa and the 2016 U.S. election became vectors for conspiracy theories during the 2020 pandemic.

    3. Shannonography The illegal abuse of power is coming from certain State Governor’s unconstitutional edicts and orders.

    4. Starting with the Democrat Governors and Mayors that have run our cities and states into the ground while hypocritically pointing their fingers at Republicans.

    1. @Line Item Politic Heads OMG. They’re trying to say Biden’s problem is not dementia. It’s just a stuttering problem. No. Stuttering is life-long. It doesn’t start in old age.

    2. He isn’t. We got rid of Obama in 2016. His next stop is jail for his spying on Trump in 2015-2016 to influence the election.

  3. First, Trump says mail-in voting will be fraudulent, now he thinks voting-in-person is so bad law enforcement needs to be involved. Apparently, the only scenerio Trump will approve calls for no one being allowed to vote at all but HIM.

    1. @Kris Rice I have a stash of MREs and bottled water. I’m fine for any emergency. I’m also not particularly worried about the election. There’s a whole lot of fear being mongered right now by republicans, but I refuse to buy into it. I will be wearing my little mask and going to the polls on Election Day to cast my ballot for anyone other than Donald Trump. I expect no problems.

    2. @humangeneric777
      I’m referring to riots and the people invovled in them. These people kill innocent people. They are movin out to suburbs and this aint no rumor. Its really happening. I know it is because i see it. I’m near several cities where its goin on
      Hope you’re a hunter!
      This isnt fear mongering. Its happening

    3. @Kris Rice There is a difference between protesting and rioting. No one is coming to your neighborhood to do either. If either happens where you live, it is your neighbors who are doing it. We have BLM marches here and not a single instance of violence.

    4. @Kris Rice By killing innocent people, do you mean like the 17-year-old who just gunned down three peaceful BLM protesters?

  4. I can not believe that we have republicans backing this man when he has destroyed thier credibility by riding the Trump train. Where’s the Senate and our Congress why aren’t they coming to bat for the people. There’s one answer to that they treasure thier possistions above the good of the country. If I were in thier positions I would fight for the people rather than let my reputation be scared in history.

    1. @Stacey M BLM is triyng to make the streets look like El Salvador, they were doing it every night before this latest shooting incident!

    2. EXPERTLY, this what happens in most third world countries, where the current leader used the police, military on the civilian population during election time. I never thought this would happen in America.

  5. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: “I am committed to lying and deceiving the American public about my corruption!”

    1. Here is why everyone needs to Vote Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szO9JWrz3f8 This is what BLM looks like LAST NIGHT in Portland and other Democrat ran cities. This is the America the Dems will have us all live in! MSM won’t cover this lawlessness and the Dems won’t talk about it. Vote Republican if you want this crime stopped!

    1. @snoop alert – No, but your flaming troll response of Whataboutism indicates you’re either a Russian bot, one of Putin’s puppet-pie pawn Republican cult helpers, or just a pervert looking to get your sicko jollies, Doc! #moreRussiasanctions

    2. @snoop alert Creepy VP “Pointless” Pence pretends piety, but pitifully parades his precious soul to purgatory…if not the perpetual fiery pit of perdition! There is a special place in hell for those whose complicit silence enables such great evil.

    3. @wily wascal Dude you’re just encouraging them, just ignore it. And while I do hate the whole # thing, Many of us are very on board with the idea of strongly increasing sanctions against Russia.
      Ironically if you really want to hurt e’m, just stop the export of blue jeans. You would genuinely be surprised how about blue jeans Russians are.

    4. @thisguy – Actually, calling them out is fairly effective. It destroys their strategy of dividing Americans, alerts other good actors about what the bad actors are doing so they don’t get sucked in, exposes that the lunatic Reich-wing fringe is not as great in numbers as they would have us believe, and typically shuts them down in short order when they know that you are on to their little games. For those few, rare Republican cult moron helpers acting as Putin’s little puppet-pie pawns, it puts their harmful behavior in proper perspective, providing the opportunity for them to think about how they are hurting America and, thus, themselves–as well as rendering them deservedly irrelevant for going along with the Russian attacks against us, trying to call it a “hoax!” Not a # person, but one other positive aspect of that, is that it lays down an easy marker for social media and our counterintelligence to clean up these platforms.

    1. biden’s not a madman he just has Alzheimer’s.. but you’re right hes a con man that would destroy us all.. luckely most of america isnt that stupid to vote for him

    2. @My Dude pretty sure he meant biden cuz it wouldn’t apply to the best president statistically that we’ve ever had in living memory

    1. @Travis Forde I’m a New Yorker, almost everyone here has no respect concerning Trump and his uneducated rabble of a family.

  6. So anyone who votes for a democratic president is, in his view, an illegal vote? And should not be considered a valid vote. Trump is increasingly a dictator.

    1. Johan Alvarez Those court cases are all fake. How come people are taking about them now? Maybe cos they hate trump. You know I could just go and say that he raped me.

      Dumbass

  7. If the American people don’t remove Trump from the white house, there WILL BE A CIVIL WAR in America.

    1. When Phat Donnie loses, his cult will riot. — So be prepared, either way. That’s how much damage he has done.

    1. Here is why everyone needs to Vote Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szO9JWrz3f8 This is what BLM looks like LAST NIGHT in Portland and other Democrat ran cities. This is the America the Dems will have us all live in! MSM won’t cover this lawlessness and the Dems won’t talk about it. Vote Republican if you want the POLICE funded & this crime stopped!

    2. @el8 yeah I know, because they’re too busy getting brainwashed by Fox,OAN,and Sinclair. Try harder with your arguments. I might not agree but I might listen.

  8. And he’s going to have unicorns, and Peter pan, and fairies, these are the babblings of an idiot, he sounds like a drunk from an airport bar.

    1. Biden put millions of black’s in jail and destroyed millions of black families lives. This architect of racism and evil will have all the bad Karma in the world gunning for him this election.

    1. A ESTO NOS LLEVAN LOS PEDÓFILOS DE LOS DEMÓCRATAS JUNTOS A LA OMS

      1 https://youtu.be/Z3T3oVThHes
      2
      https://youtu.be/SbO9W4McC0A
      3
      https://youtu.be/crvt20V2pI0
      4
      PARLAMENTO EUROPEO  QUIENES TRABAJAN PARA APROBAR LAS LEYES DE GEORGE SOROS  FILTRADO DESDE OPEN SOCIETY
      https://youtu.be/541_trDXGB0
      https://youtu.be/3lY3_sElVHk

      AHORA ENTIENDEN POR QUE TODO CUADRA !
      DIVIDIR Y FRACCIONAR A LOS AMERICANOS CREAR LEYES QUE TE QUITEN DERECHOS! CUANDO EYOS SON LOS CREADORES DEL CAOOS Y LOS QUE QUIEREN QUE NOS ODIEMOS

      PARA MANTENERSE EN EL PODER

      MIENTRAS INMUNES TAPAN SU PEDOFILIA
      Y SUS FETICHES SEXUALES!

    2. @21stcenturyenigma AH UNFORTUNATELY FOR U I AM AN ENGINEER. THE PRINCIPLE OF GRAVITY ACCORDING TO GENERAL RELATIVITY Gravity (from Latin gravitas, meaning ‘weight'[1]), or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light[2]—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon’s gravity causes the ocean tides. The gravitational attraction of the original gaseous matter present in the Universe caused it to begin coalescing and forming stars and caused the stars to group together into galaxies, so gravity is responsible for many of the large-scale structures in the Universe. Gravity has an infinite range, although its effects become increasingly weaker as objects get further away.

    3. @21stcenturyenigma JUST FOR U Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), romanized: physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit. ‘knowledge of nature’, from φύσις phĂ˝sis ‘nature’)[1][2][3] is the natural science that studies matter,[a] its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.[5] Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.[b][6][7][8]

    4. @21stcenturyenigma AND AGAIN Philosophy (from Greek: φιλοσοφία, philosophia, ‘love of wisdom’) is the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. … Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation.

    5. @21stcenturyenigma SO DEAR PHYSICS REQUIRES THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THEORY BEGIN WITH THE STATEMENT OF ONES PHILOSOPHY IN THE AXIOMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF OF A LOGIC WHICH BECOME A LAW OF NATURE. PHILOSOPHY IS A LOVER OF OF KNOWLEDGE. YOUR STATEMENT WAS BASED ON IGNORRANCE. TRY AGAIN. THERE IS NO UP AND DOWN THE BIGGER BODY MOVES LESS AND THE LESSOR BODY MOVES MORE DUE TO THE CURVATURE OF SPACE. THIS IS THE GEOMETRY OF SPACETIME, IN OTHER WORDS THE GENERAL RALATIVITY THEORY.

  9. Cases of fraud are so far and few, it’s just not worth even talking about
    Voter suppression is a common practice and usually done by republicans

    1. Voter suppression is just an opinion/emotion
      Voter fraud is literally a problem with evidence that can be researched, they’re just in denial.

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