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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency​

Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue. The White House declined to elaborate on Trump’s plans.


“Under the Constitution, it’s the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is advocating for the draft executive order. Ticktin attended the New York Military Academy with Trump and was part of his legal team that filed an unsuccessful 2022 lawsuit accusing Democrats of conspiring to damage him with allegations that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.

“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”

The emergency would empower the president to ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.
The idea of claiming emergency executive powers based on allegations of foreign interference attaches new significance to the administration’s actions to reinvestigate the 2020 election. Trump has never accepted defeat, while never finding evidence of widespread fraud. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is leading a review of election security that officials said focuses on foreign influence.

A 2021 intelligence review concluded that China considered efforts to influence the election but did not go through with them.

Ticktin said he’s had “certain coordination” with White House officials but declined to specify, citing safety concerns. But his input has successfully led to a presidential action before. Ticktin represents Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk imprisoned on state charges arising from breaking into voting equipment, whom Trump said he pardoned in December. (The presidential pardon did not free Peters from her nine-year prison term because the president has no power over state crimes.)
A White House official said the staff is regularly in communication with a variety of outside advocates who want to share their policy ideas with the president, but any speculation about his actions or announcements is just speculation.

“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future,” Trump said on social media Feb. 13. “I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order,” he added the same day.


Trump is pressuring Republicans to pass legislation to require proof of citizenship for voter registration and ID to cast ballots. The measure, called the Save Act, passed the House but faces obstacles in the Senate, where Republican leaders have rejected Trump’s demand to change the chamber’s rules in order to move the legislation forward.


“President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. “The President has urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting.”

Trump has said that if the bill fails, he will act unilaterally to impose the changes for the midterms. What that executive order could look like and the draft circulating among activists have not been previously reported.
Last June, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released FBI records showing an initial tip alleging a Chinese effort to produce fraudulent driver’s licenses for mail ballots. Suspicions of Chinese ballots spurred the hunt for bamboo fibers in Arizona ballots during a Republican-led audit in 2021, which reaffirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

Gabbard recently was present when the FBI searched a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize ballots from the 2020 election there. The affidavit submitted to obtain the search warrant, however, did not allege foreign interference. Her office also examined voting machines used in Puerto Rico looking for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, in coordination with the FBI and the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, according to a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That inquiry was first reported by Reuters.

“The stage is largely being set by the revelations coming out of foreign powers being involved in influencing the 2020 election,” said Jerome Corsi, who circulated the draft executive order in July. Corsi helped spread the “birtherism” smear against Barack Obama and a conspiracy theory involving slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich, for which he later apologized. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III investigated Corsi as a possible link between WikiLeaks and Roger Stone during the 2016 campaign, which Corsi denied.

“If there was a provable foreign intrusion, that would be a national security emergency and the order could be issued under his powers as commander in chief,” Corsi added.
Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution assigns power to regulate elections to state legislatures and Congress, with no role for the president.

A presidential emergency on elections has never been tested in court. As precedent, the activists point to a 2018 executive order that declared an emergency to impose sanctions on foreign entities targeting election infrastructure. Biden repeatedly extended that emergency, and in 2024 the Treasury Department used the order to place Iranian and Russian entities under sanctions.
Trump also signed an executive order last March to require proof of citizenship on voter registration forms and withhold funding from states accepting mail ballots after Election Day. Courts in five cases blocked parts of the order, with three of them pending appeal and another awaiting a ruling, according to a litigation tracker compiled by the legal website Just Security.
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And he is visiting China in a month...
 
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Trump has nominated Dr. Casey Means, a “wellness influencer,” with an inactive medical license who dropped out of her medical residency as Surgeon General.
Yep, you read that correctly. The woman chosen to become "America's doctor" is NOT a practicing, licensed physician and has ZERO public health experience.
While U.S. surgeons general tend to have extensive experience in medicine and public health, Means has no government experience and dropped out of her surgical residency program, saying she became "disillusioned" with traditional medicine.
She co-founded a health tech company, Levels, with her brother, that helps users track blood sugar and other metrics. She also makes money from dietary supplements, creams, teas and other products sponsored on her social media accounts.
They’re literally turning the Department of Health and Human Services into a GRIFT for a woman who sounds like she got her MD from a podcast comment section.
It’s not about making America healthy, or eliminating toxins from our diets, or any of that crap. It’s about scamming us all so they can make as much money as possible.
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I mean, after they appointed the antivaxxer RFK Jr. as their secretary of health, does that shock you? I'm actually surprised this new surgeon general has any medical training, however incomplete it is.

Speaking of antivaxxers... Given that the US is hellbent on bringing back the wonderful pandemics of the past and making measles great again, how long until we close down our borders to them? I mean, I had to present vaccination certificates at the border in order to bring a puppy into Canada. A puppy. When are are we going to start demanding the same of the people? If they are not going to vaccinate their kids, why should ours suffer?
 
In February 2026, Tom Homan, the "border czar" for the Trump administration, stated he would be "happy to sit down and explain" Catholic teaching to
Pope Leo XIV. This followed criticisms from Pope Leo regarding the Trump administration's deportation policies, which the Pope deemed "disrespectful" and a violation of human dignity
 
^Tom Homan: "You see, you just need to go back to The Crusades..." /bleah
 

CMS blocks durable medical equipment enrollments, halts $5.7B in Medicare payments​

From https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-coding-billing-and-collections/cms-blocks-durable-medical-equipment-enrollments-halts-5-7b-in-medicare-payments/

Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, announced a series of actions affecting Medicare and Medicaid, including a $259.5 million deferral of federal Medicaid funding in Minnesota and a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollment for certain durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics suppliers, according to a Feb. 25 White House news release.

The push comes after President Donald Trump highlighted the White House’s focus on what it claimed was fraudulent behavior across multiple social programs. The move includes three key initiatives: a DMEPOS enrollment moratorium, the Minnesota Medicaid funding deferral and broader anti-fraud enforcement steps....
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Moratorium on durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics suppliers

(Must be looking for an one-armed fugitive.)
 
Paramount is set to acquire Warner Bros, after Netflix decided to walk away from talks. Larry Ellison's empire is now set to include CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. Unprecedented levels of media consolidation and a threat to press freedom.

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Warner Bros Discovery has agreed to be acquired by Paramount Skydance in a US$110 billion deal signed Friday morning, according to an audio clip of a global townhall by the company, which was reviewed by Reuters.
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The deal - which includes some $29 billion in debt - is among Hollywood’s biggest media shake-ups and will create one of the largest film studios in the world, allowing Paramount to tap Warner’s trove of intellectual property, including franchises such as “Fantastic Beasts” and “The Matrix.”

It will also allow Paramount to bolster its streaming efforts, with a potential combination of HBO Max and Paramount+, enabling it to gain market share and tussle with market leader Netflix.

The agreement caps a bidding war after Netflix declined to match Paramount’s latest $31-per-share offer, which was deemed superior by Warner Bros to the streaming pioneer’s $27.75-per-share agreement for its assets.
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Still, the merger is likely to draw antitrust scrutiny in Washington, foreign countries and U.S. states, including California, despite the Ellisons’ ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have raised concerns that any deal to acquire Warner Bros could result in fewer choices and higher prices for consumers.

Cinema operators are also concerned that combining large Hollywood studios could cost jobs and reduce the number of movies released in theaters.
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^...this is in so many ways is horrifying.
 
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^...this is in so many ways is horrifying.
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What would ever make you say that? It's not like we have perfect examples in Russia, China, and North Korea of the immense benefits of having a single actor own all media outlets. Imagine if there were no dissenting opinions on TV? Imagine if there was a single unified narrative in all news outlets? Imagine if all movies were filmed through the lens of an singularly correct world view?
 
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