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(FB) spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN that Facebook (TWTR) said it was “taking action on accounts sharing it” and would prevent the link from being tweeted further. After CNN asked about the people sharing links to and promoting the Telegram channel on its platform, Twitter ET it posted an ominous picture of soldiers in uniform behind a fence in Washington DC with the caption “Stay in your homes.”īy Tuesday afternoon, the account had almost 220,000 followers – likely helped by the fact that it was being widely and actively discussed and promoted on other platforms including Twitter Then, 20 minutes later: “Last hours.” It continued on like this. “They can no longer hide in the shadows,” it added half an hour later. “Nothing can stop this,” the account said in a message that had been seen by at least 185,000 people as of Tuesday morning. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was telling them that the moment they’d been waiting for, the moment Trump would finally act and use the military to crush his enemies, was coming. A Telegram account falsely purporting to be run by Gen. But it was a very thin thread that we were resting on.'įormer President Trump recently denied that he had any intention of deploying the military in January this year after an upcoming book claimed that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was concerned he would attempt a coup or take other illegal action.Sometime Monday, some of the remaining dead-enders convinced that President Trump will remain in office for at least the next four years got a sign. 'And nobody has yet been able to explain why exactly Vice President Pence did the right thing in upholding the constitutional order on that day. 'It's an extraordinary thing,' Raskin replied. 'I mean that's the craziest thing, and I don't want to give Michael Pence, who's, you know, debased himself in a million ways, too much credit here, but like, that's what I'm hearing from you and that's my understanding as well, which is a kind of stomach-dropping realization to come to.' Hayes responded to Raskin's comments on Friday, saying: 'If Pence had gotten up there that day and say 'I'm rejecting them,' there's no recourse.' General Michael Flynn, who had served as Trump's National Security Advisor from January to February 2017, suggested in December 2020 that the then president could declare martial law and re-run the presidential election.

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'And at that point, he probably would've followed the advice of Michael Flynn and imposed martial law and a state of siege, and this would've been the Reichstag moment,' he said. 'And if they'd been able to do that, which would not have been really that much if you look at the different things Mike Pence did over the prior four years for Trump, they would have won it with 27 states to 22 for the Democrats and one tied.' 'And there they wanted it because we vote not one member, one vote, but one state, one vote,' Raskin went on. This rare situation has not arisen since the 19th century. In the event that no presidential candidate can reach 270 Electoral College votes, the next president is selected by the House of Representatives.

'All they wanted Pence to do was to rebuff the electors coming in from Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, lowering Biden's total below 270, kicking the presidential contest into a contingent election,' Raskin said. Raskin told Hayes: 'We got very lucky with Mike Pence.' Read more Judge Says NJ Woman Must Remove Profane Anti-Biden Flags or Pay $250 a Day

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