Maddock is hardly the only Trump-apologist. Pavlovitz named Republicans like Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, and Marjorie Taylor Greene who repeatedly defend Trump’s intolerable actions at all costs. “They are ‘winning,’ in whatever way they define that, and so the intoxicating ends justifies the sickening, violent, shameful means,” the pastor wrote of Republicans. “They no longer have a need to weigh the morality of the people they are in bed with, no longer worry about abiding the teachings of Jesus, no longer have to do the uncomfortable work of examining their own hearts. The victory trumps decency.”
That much was even clearer after reading the draft order Trump considered. The order would’ve utilized the power law granted the defense secretary to protect election records to instead “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under.” Another part of the order would have allotted the defense secretary 60 days to assess the election, an act Politico reported “suggests it could have been a gambit to keep Trump in power until at least mid-February of 2021.”
Terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance told MSNBC if Trump had issued the executive order, it would’ve been “immediately dismissed” by every officer in the armed forces because it is an “unlawful order.” The bigger problem, he said, is what would’ve happened if National Guard units from states in favor of Trump were ordered by their governors to do what the armed forces couldn’t.
“This is literally the definition of a Latin American or Sub-Saharan African style coup d’état,” Nance said.
Read the full text of the draft order Politico published:
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