FILE PHOTO: A sign to guide voters to the polling station for the presidential election is seen in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo
Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor warned of an alleged plot to manipulate the midterm elections, with President Donald Trump's "boyhood pal" Peter Ticktin at its center.
Ticktin, an 80-year-old Florida lawyer who met Trump in the 1950s at a military academy, urged the president to declare a national emergency based on unsubstantiated claims of foreign election interference in the 2020 election, Newsweek reports.
Ticktin claims proof will emerge once Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro cooperates, Newsweek added.
Taylor argued in an analysis posted on his Substack, some people speculate the Trump administration offered Maduro leniency in exchange for admitting having intervened in the election.
Ticktin already drafted an executive order to declare such an emergency, CNN reported earlier in the week.
"If this guy, Ticktin, wants Trump to declare a 'national emergency,' let’s be prepared for the president to declare one – and be ready ourselves to say within seconds that it’s a farce," Taylor wrote.
“It's our expectation that the president will undertake more illegal and unconstitutional actions to steal the midterms. He will dispute the outcome if his side loses, even if the loss is decisive and beyond dispute. And he will – in all likelihood – try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to the political opposition. After all, he’s done it before. But this time we’re better prepared to fight it. And we need to stand together.”
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