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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Chris Murphy: Trump intentionally lied about immigrants, possibly to declare martial law.
The warning came Thursday as Republicans – led by Trump – continued to falsely claim that President Joe Biden’s “open border policy” is to blame for authorities missing signs that could have thwarted the attack. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) suggested that diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives also played a role.
“In the coming days, watch for autocracy-fetishizing MAGA figures who call on Trump to use ‘emergency powers’ or ‘domestic war powers’ (i.e. some form of martial law) to confront domestic terrorism,” Murphy told his X followers on Thursday. “They aren't out to destroy terrorists. They're out to destroy the rule of law.”
The Connecticut senator made a series of posts to his X account in the hours after a man rammed a pickup truck through a crowd in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter to condemn the attack as “an abomination” – and call out Trump.
“Trump is intentionally lying about the attacker being an immigrant - he wasn’t,” Murphy wrote above a social media post from Trump. “Why does it matter? Because he is going to use episodes of violence to justify his crack down on immigrants and his attack on dissent - whether the facts line up or not.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-in-new-orleans/
Yeah, the way Trump was tripling down on immigrant terrorists is no mistake.

speak easy
(11,314 posts)Here is where we are:, This is what MAGA is all about. They love it if they can hate ppl more.
ancianita
(40,215 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(53,888 posts)Mike 03
(18,323 posts)a caravan of immigrants was heading up from southern Mexico to the U.S. border in an attempt to get here before President Biden leaves office. The commentator said it was a ten day trip, but if for any reason it is delayed I can see that being the Reichstag Fire excuse to declare an emergency. One reason they might be delayed is that our last two administrations did ask Mexico to stop these large migrating groups. But Mexico might only succeed in slowing them down just enough. But we all know Trump can pull fake crises out of his ass whenever he feels like it.
With DHS totally under his auspices, he can manufacture fraudulent "intel" any time he wants to prove anything he wants.
In any event, I do expect this declaration at some point, likely sooner rather than later.
LiberalArkie
(17,785 posts)malaise
(282,437 posts)to scumbags in the US. They get jobs in hotels, including maid services, home care and farm work.
magicarpet
(17,893 posts).... Martial Law would be a tasty recipie towards reaching that objective of total governmental power in the hands of djt.
Djt craves the taste the royal crown atop his head and his fat ass plunked on the throne. While he enjoys all the accoutrement of being the King and new found total self appointed Monarch.
With absolute power and immunity from criminality djt can go right to town in his quest for selfenrichment as he plunders the US Treasury.
enid602
(9,253 posts)Trump needs martial law/control over the National Guard to subdue citizen reaction to cuts in SS/Medicare. And those detention centers he wants would come in handy as well.
maxrandb
(16,443 posts)malaise
(282,437 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,664 posts)This is why he wants podcast and social media coverage. He knows he can lie about whatever he wants and get away with it. He spews whatever vile crap he thinks and gets away with it. He WILL do this to declare a national emergency to deport all undocumented people.
Justice matters.
(8,225 posts)But his oligarch 1 said it will be "temporary"
Arazi
(7,638 posts)Within weeks of inauguration if I had to guess.
It’s the Autocrat 101 playbook. Eliminate overt resistance early.
A word of caution, the first protests post-inauguration will garner a ferocious response and participants will be arrested and charged aggressively to tamp down resistance. Be careful out there and be prepared for extreme belligerence and violence from cops who will be newly empowered by Traitor and his DOJ to respond forcefully.
Botany
(73,699 posts)Never mind that Trump used undocumented Polish labor on his NYC properties and
undocumented workers on the construction of his New Jersey Golf Club.
Arazi
(7,638 posts)When their undocumented, parents are arrested.
It might be a Reichstag type of event that provokes his declaration of martial law, but I think it will be protests.
It’s a full proof way to round up and cow resistors early on which he’ll need to go full authoritarian
Botany
(73,699 posts)Remember Chuck Grassley’s Jan. 5th 2021 comment that he didn’t expect Vice President Pence
to be in Congress on Jan. 6th to oversee the certification of the electoral college vote, or that
in “protesting” the outcome of the 2020 election they took voting machines in and multiple states
where the then had access to the E.R.D. voting machines software and hardware, or the Republican
Congresspeople who gave guided tours of the US Capitol to the same people who invaded that
building on 1-6, and all the election deniers who subsequently became part of state and federal
positions?
We are in for a full blown attempt to install Christo fascism into America and BTW anybody
who questions the 2024 election is a conspiracy freak.
Arazi
(7,638 posts)Within weeks, not months. I don’t think this group believes in a slow boil. I believe they’re the flamethrower types who will want to torch things ASAP
Botany
(73,699 posts)…. bullet wound that totally healed with in two weeks and didn’t even leave a scare or even a
scab or more shit they can blame on illegal immigrates.
Arazi
(7,638 posts)We’re not that important 😂
But a cyberattack on transit systems, or banking, stock market etc is definitely plausible
Botany
(73,699 posts)N/t
have been having trouble with DU all week. Sometimes when I click on a story it takes forever to come up and other times it comes right up.
yardwork
(66,037 posts)mopinko
(72,192 posts)citing it as reason to rush to rubberstamp these assholes.
marmar
(78,360 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(19,555 posts)Wear your TRUE COLORS Boys and Girls!!
THAT means you Marsha, Katie, Tubby, John(the other Kennedy), MAGA Mike, Tim(the other Scott), Marjie, and more.
B.See
(5,002 posts)... or so he once claimed after word got out that he'd spoken before a gaggle of em?
I suspect he has a closet FULL of robes and hoods.
ScratchCat
(2,635 posts)Nobody goes to work. Kids don't go to school. Businesses all shut down. Grocery stores are out of food. People are shooting each other over a can of dog food. The stock market crashes overnight. Every "billionaire" now has nothing. The internet stops working.
Your phones stop working. There's no gas or diesel. Nobody has any obligation to follow any law, police no longer have any legitimate authority and the social contract is over.
That's what happens when you "declare marshal law" over fiction.
So let me ask you, do you think the wealthy who stand to lose everything are going to allow him to do this?
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RainCaster
(12,489 posts)The top 1% think that they are invincible. So they will gladly spend more money on personal security to keep the unwashed masses away.
ScratchCat
(2,635 posts)If one thinks he would/will actually do this, i.e., declare marshal law(destroy the country) to deport illegals, why wouldn't the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense just "pre-empt" him on 01/21/2025 and detain him, and take control? Think about it for a second: He can't "declare marshal law" without destroying the country overnight. If he is going to cause something so drastic, why would it be allowed? Wouldn't the general consensus be that if there is a choice between to bad outcomes, the one without Trump being in control is the preferable one? We have 18 days for them to make their decision.
PortTack
(35,452 posts)Callie1979
(641 posts)I see enough MAGA idiots on the internet already claiming that BIDEN will use the military to stop trump from taking office.
ScratchCat
(2,635 posts)It would come afterwards, only once he has been sworn in and tried to declare ML. They wouldn't have cause prior to that.
Callie1979
(641 posts)But should he try, then someone WONT miss.
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Justice matters.
(8,225 posts)That will not "restore the soul of the nation" at all.
bucolic_frolic
(49,516 posts)People will die from these lies. Many people.
Bluetus
(866 posts)republianmushroom
(19,279 posts)Does the new convicted felon new lie record being Jan. 20 @ 1200 hr Washington time ?
Justice matters.
(8,225 posts)From the lying fascist felonious rapist who killed the Bill.
The worst chapter in History is repeating in our faces, only different backgrounds.
dickthegrouch
(3,968 posts)It would be good to keep a running total of all his lies even during his “shadow presidency”
IronLionZion
(48,280 posts)kind of how the solution to gun violence is more guns.
The solution to most problems in society is for the GOP to screw completely different people who had nothing to do with it.
The US isn't South Korea. Nobody is going to jail Trump for Putin-esque authoritarian actions.
PortTack
(35,452 posts)A trial run?
Attacks scattered across the country with obvious symbolism..cyber truck in front of trump property. Is this his trial run? Had this been post 1/20 I’d say this is his plan to initiate marshal law.
Possible or just my conspiracy?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219867907
Arazi
(7,638 posts)If he’s concerned, then I’m concerned
PortTack
(35,452 posts)T-rump to use martial law.
Arazi
(7,638 posts)
Montauk6
(8,985 posts)Open borders, pet-eating immigrants, DEI??? Come on, guys, good start but you can do better than that!
Lack of nationwide abortion ban
Critical-race theory
Transgender operations on kids
They/Them pronouns
Wokeness (esp. Disney)
Internet porn
Gangsta rap
Social Security
Lack of prayer in schools
Darwinism
Secular Humanism
Colin Kaepernick
BLM
Gun Control
Shirley McLaine & J.Z. Knight
Lack of family values
Forced vaccination
Fluoride
Participation trophies
Benghazi
Hillary Clinton's emails
Saul Alinsky
George Soros
Liberal Media
Greenland
Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his tan suit
Hunter Biden
War on Christmas
Joe Biden's dog
AOC
Norman Lear
Costco
Letitia James
Stolen 2020 Election
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Muslims
Socialist Democrats
Bill Ayers
Area 51
Pizzagate
Fake Moon Landing
Vince Foster Murder
Gay Marriage
Earth First
Chelsea Clinton
Rigoberta Menchu
The Jan 6 Committee
Jane Fonda
Feminism
White Genocide
Age of Consent too high
Taylor Swift
B.See
(5,002 posts)under which Trump and his MAGAS will target AMERICAN (so-called sanctuary) cities - will target AMERICANS (deemed 'not lotyal) in those and other inner cities, for that "day of violence" he's already called for.
Those concentration camps they're planning won't just be for 'immigrants.'
AdamGG
(1,654 posts)Four weeks after Adolf Hitler took power, a fire was set at the German parliament (Reichstag). Hitler blamed it on the Communists and a decree was issued that suspended civil liberties.
That's basic history which most people know, but an interesting wager for the betting sites would be how long after taking office will Trump attempt to declare martial law. Like with Hitler, I think it could come pretty quickly. Unlike his first term, where he started out somewhat trying to maintain the pretense of being a normal president, everything indicates that he is going to be swinging for the fences of authoritarianism. Immigration seems like the most likely candidate now, but he'll use anything that he thinks will work.
I pray that something like this will backfire on him and he'll have to walk it back, but I don't have much faith in the country and the institutions that he will be staffing with sycophants.
Hassler
(4,182 posts)Inaugural speech. He'll have all eyes watching him.
neverforget
(9,498 posts)watching television or do we fight it? Do we get out in the streets and protest? Do we call for a national strike? We can't just sit and take it while MAGA wipes their ass with the Constitution.