He also called for the immediate arrest of former defense secretary James Mattis for sedition, apparently because he feared Trump was unfit for office, according to Washington Post journalist’s to Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, Rage. Jen Psaki, named as press secretary for the Biden administration which takes office January 20, refused to be drawn on the matter, telling “Fox News Sunday” she would leave it to others to explain “what on Earth is happening in the Oval Office and the White House.” Under martial law and the Insurrection Act, Trump will have the authority to arrest Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, the Clintons and anybody else who can be proven to be involved in illegal activity, Stone said. “It’s unbelievable - almost certainly completely without precedent.”īut he also said such talk was not atypical from his former boss - and a case of “incompetence” rather than “malevolence.” “There’s no other way to describe it,” he told CNN late Saturday. Many of the president’s advisors pushed back hard in the Friday meeting against the notion of martial law, according to the New York Times.īut John Bolton, a former Trump national security advisor who has been a frequent critic since leaving the administration in September, called the meeting’s reported contents “appalling.” “He could be championing this story, but instead leaving Washington with conspiracy theories and things so nutty and loopy that people are shaking their head wondering what in the world has gotten into this man?”Ī supporter of President Donald Trump holds up a sign as Trump’s motorcade departs Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Sunday, Dec. Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2012, added: “It’s really sad in a lot of respects, and embarrassing, because the president could, right now, be writing the last chapter of this administration with a victory lap….” over the historic vaccine rollout. And in the days after the 2020 election, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley feared that Trump might invoke martial law and, they write, that Trump’s ‘Hitler-like’ embrace of his own lies. “It’s not going to happen,” the Republican senator and frequent Trump critic Mitt Romney said bluntly on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding, “It’s going nowhere.” Trump, in any case, would need congressional approval to invoke martial law, according to a study earlier this year by the Brennan Center for Justice.īut accounts of the extraordinary meeting - which reportedly devolved at times into “screaming matches” - raised eyebrows across Washington, drawing strong condemnation from some quarters while others were left shaking their heads in dismay. “There is no role for the US military in determining the outcome of an American election,” Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff James McConville said in a statement Friday. Embracing the language of confrontation and war, President Donald Trump on Monday declared himself the 'president of law and order' and signaled he would stake his reelection on persuading voters his forceful approach, including deploying US troops to US cities, was warranted in a time of national tumult and racial unrest.
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