• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said.

    This here. His whole rhetoric about enemies within & without is about this. Or, as another headline reads:

    Lawmaker Sounds Alarm: Trump Plotting Fake Crisis to Scrap 2028 Election and Stay in Power

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      Theyll certainly overlap the two things. Ice agents literally repelled from helicopters to raid an apartment building in Chicago recently, allegedly because of Tren De Aragua members being there. Next theyll say they need to declare martial law and sweep the cities

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldOP
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      Can’t hold elections during wartimes! Or at least that’s what he heard from somewhere…