Ben Rhodes: "The crisis is when the authoritarianism accelerates."

[Grasswire2]

Beware.

Beware.

He'll do anything now. And do it in the dark of a Friday night.

And from Ron Fournier, former AP WH correspondent during the Bush years:

"Mark these words: Trump will postpone or otherwise disrupt the general election in November, blaming the return of the virus and still lying about the sanctity of mail-in votes. What he put in motion today is insidious."

[cayugafalls]

1. Absolutely. The 2nd wave hits right around election time.

Perfect timing for trump to do his dirty deeds.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. The Republicans have done it in many past presidential elections

It is called "the October Surprise"..........The first was Reagan getting the Iranians to make Carter fail at getting the release of the American hostages before the elections. There have been a bunch of them, I just can't remember them all....Another one was them torpedoing Kerry with their totally made up Bullshit....Swiftboating crap.

Just know, this year, far more than in any other election, they will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to win this one, no matter if they need to commit outright/flagrant criminal deeds or utilize any and all totally corrupt means......

They believe any means are justified to reach their final goal.......

They have spent forty years of hard work, criminal acts, and corruption to accomplish getting to the point they could pull of this COUP. They want a Corporate Fascist Tyranny and will stop at nothing this time around......

WASF

[42bambi]

2. Congress should hit him with the 25th Amendment! NOW, before it's too late.

[D_Master81]

7. Only the Cabinet can do that

And since Trump has only packed his Cabinet with yes men hacks, it ain’t happening. Congress would only vote to remove after a certain period of time after the 25th has been invoked.

[ancianita]

9. Acting cabinet heads have no authority to do what official cabinet heads can, so no, it won't happen

[Steelrolled]

3. The election will go on as scheduled in Nov

Might be a lot by absentee ballot, and customized polling stations for maintaining social distance.

[rso]

4. Election

The Election will go on because otherwise, Trump and Pence have to relinquish and Nancy Pelosi becomes interim President.

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R!

[BigmanPigman]

6. I think you are correct.

The GOP is taking advantage of this to turn back environmental regulations, pushing for abortion bans, etc. Of course they will attempt to use this to stay in power.

[eleny]

8. I heard that T said we should all vote in person with ID

But none of that is up to him. Each state is in control of its election process.

What I do like about the sound of his declaration is that it means he's scared shi*less of losing the election. He knows how bad it is for him. That warms me like an electric blanket.