{"id":53656,"date":"2024-02-06T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53656"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:31:04","slug":"the-plans-are-quietly-being-put-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53656","title":{"rendered":"The Plans Are Quietly Being Put In Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that the uni-party in Washington does not like President Trump. They not only dislike him&#8211;they fear him. If he gets into office again, he knows where all of the bodies are buried and may start digging them up. He is also very familiar with skeletons in closets.<\/p>\n<p>On January 26th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/is-the-electoral-fix-already-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racket News<\/a> posted an article by Matt Taibbi about the deep state&#8217;s plans either to keep President Trump from returning to office or crippling his Presidency if he is elected. This really doesn&#8217;t sound as if many of the people in Washington who are supposed to represent us really care about what we think.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists a few current plans:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-military-fears-rcna129159\" rel=\"\">Fears grow that Trump will use the military in \u2018dictatorial ways\u2019 if he returns to the White House<\/a>.\u201d It described \u201ca loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers\u201d that is \u201cquietly\u201d making plans to \u201cfoil any efforts to expand presidential power\u201d on the part of Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims. Since Joe Biden\u2019s team \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/21\/politics\/biden-campaign-strategy\/index.html\" rel=\"\">leaked\u201d a strategy memo<\/a>\u00a0in late December listing \u201cTrump is an existential threat to democracy\u201d as Campaign 2024\u2019s central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert\u00a0<em>existential\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>democracy\u00a0<\/em>in quotes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/about\/#Team\" rel=\"\">Forward<\/a>, one of the advocacy groups organizing the \u201cloose\u201d coalition, said, \u201cWe believe this is an existential moment for American democracy.\u201d Declared former CIA and defense chief Leon Panetta: \u201cLike any good dictator, he\u2019s going to try to use the military to basically perform his will.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice and current\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/mary-mccord\/\" rel=\"\">visiting Georgetown law professor Mary McCord<\/a>\u00a0was one of the few coalition participants quoted by name. She said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>We\u2019re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we\u2019re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The group was formed by at least two organizations that have been hyperactive in filing lawsuits against Trump and Trump-related figures over the years: the aforementioned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/\" rel=\"\">Democracy Forward<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/updates\/celebrating-five-years-of-impact\/\" rel=\"\">chaired<\/a>\u00a0by former Perkins Coie and Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/protectdemocracy.org\/about\/our-advisors-and-board\/#advisors\" rel=\"\">Protect Democracy<\/a>, a ubiquitous non-profit run by a phalanx of former Obama administration lawyers like Ian Bassin, and funded at least in part\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5859215\/protect-democracy-trump\/\" rel=\"\">by LinkedIn magnate Reid Hoffman<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is really sad that there are people in authority who feel so superior that they are planning to overrule the American people if they do not vote the way the deep state wants them to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that the uni-party in Washington does not like President Trump. They not only dislike him&#8211;they fear him. 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