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In reply to the discussion: Liz Cheney secretly organized move to block Trump from using military to overturn election: report [View all]ScratchCat
(1,981 posts)This is important.
There isn't even a method for a POTUS to "give an order" to the Military to "overturn" the election. This was discussed ad nauseum in November. The US Constitution specifies that his term would end on 01/20/2021. What exactly could a POTUS "order" the military to do? I said back then, the NYSE crashes overnight under any type of "marshal law" proclamation. And so does every other financial market in the world. Neither the POTUS, nor any other Federal body, has any jurisdiction over the certified State election results. There is nothing he could have "ordered" the military to do. A POTUS has no power to tell the "military" to stand in front of the WH and kill anyone who attempts to come in. There is no power to use the military domestically and no General would follow such an order.
Its not that they would have simply "ignored" the orders. They would have "laughed" at the order and then detained Trump as an enemy combatant or insurrectionist.