A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

Talk inside the White House about invoking the act has ebbed and flowed since Trump took office again in January, said the five people, who include the senior administration official, two people familiar with the discussions and two people close to the White House.

But the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked, both people close to the White House said.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    451·
    4 days ago

    No one thought this would happen to this extreme.

    No, it was actually pretty easy to imagine when:

    1. Trump told people to “find votes” for him;
    2. Trump had himself pre-emptively certified as the winner in some states; and
    3. Trump used stochastic terrorism to incite a riot outside a government building, as a response to his impending loss of power.

    All of that screams “power-hungry facist”, and the predictable outcome of someone like that regaining legal authority, obviously, is an attempt to transition towards fascism so they can retain that once-lost power indefinitely.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      28·
      4 days ago

      And he told people they’d never have to vote again. And Project 2025 forecast what would happen if he won but people wrote off that publicly available document as a delusion of the left

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 days ago

      Also, The Annoying Orange told everyone he’d be their “retribution”. If people heard that and were confused about what that meant for most of the country, I don’t know what to say.