What is going on with executive order 13848 and how trump will use it to turn the election?
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I’ve glanced the order but have a hard time understanding what he can actually do to use it to turn the election.
You have a hard time understanding, because there's nothing in the order that allows it to overturn the election. The order details procedures for investigating foreign interference and for applying sanctions to foreign entities that interfered in the election, but it does not allow for the election results to be altered or dismissed.
It is just yet one more desperate conspiracy that is making it's way through conservative circles.
More on reddit.comCould Trump use his 2018 executive order on foreign election interference to circumvent the results of the election?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "No".
Executive orders only have an effect on federal executive agencies. None of those are at all involved with administering or certifying a presidential election. It likewise doesn't affect states, their laws, their executives or legislatures and it most certainly does nothing to prevent Congress from certifying the EC vote.
Trump is powerless to stop Biden becoming POTUS. They're grasping at straws.
More on reddit.comELI5: What is EO 13848
What is going on with executive order 13848 and how trump will use it to turn the election?
Mention of EO in trump’s retweeted thread
The tweet itself
I’ve seen it mentioned a few times in threads that talk about how trump still has a chance to overturn the election. I’ve glanced the order but have a hard time understanding what he can actually do to use it to turn the election. The little bit that I have seen it talked about is from the “right” saying it’s the “kraken” and the “left” saying it going to fizzle to nothing. Also, it looks like trump retweeted not long after Barr’s resignation that the acting AG wrote an essay about foreign interference in the election seemingly (in my opinion) foreshadowing the possible use of the order.
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I’ve glanced the order but have a hard time understanding what he can actually do to use it to turn the election.
You have a hard time understanding, because there's nothing in the order that allows it to overturn the election. The order details procedures for investigating foreign interference and for applying sanctions to foreign entities that interfered in the election, but it does not allow for the election results to be altered or dismissed.
It is just yet one more desperate conspiracy that is making it's way through conservative circles.
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