Trump will declare a ‘national emergency’ before midterms: Bannon

2026-07-24 21:31 UTC

Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says. The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election. These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited. Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box. Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington. Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.

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@joecitizen@piefed.ca 2026-07-25 00:44

The Divided States of America. Only way forward.

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@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2026-07-25 03:19

What the article isn’t saying is that Bannon himself is part of the plan, making sure everyone knows a national emergency is coming, getting in front of it. Bannon’s not saying this out of concern: telling the media now is his part in making it happen. This asshole WANTS a third term and everything that goes with it: Steve Bannon calls for Trump to deploy ICE and military troops to polling sites - The Trump ally was one of few GOP voices to support the president’s push to nationalize voting – Politico, February 2026 Steve Bannon says ‘there is a plan’ for Trump to be president in 2028: ‘We had longer odds in 2016 and 2024’ – The Independent, October 2025 Steve Bannon Doubles Down on Third Trump Term – Newsweek, April 2026 Also, it bears repeating: before you give this asshole too much credence it’s best to always keep in mind that Bannon was arguably Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. So close were they that Epstein was on his way to meet Bannon the day he got arrested in 2019. His very last text was to Bannon as Epstein was being detained at Teterboro Airport, telling Bannon their plans are “All canceled” now. To quote one of Bannon’s texts to Epstein, Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends See it for yourself.

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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-25 03:23

And he will be ignored. Too many are ready for that shit.

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@bloogoose@lemmy.zip 2026-07-25 03:24

Everyone thinking there’s no way this will work is 100% the reason it inevitably will. Y’all keep believing in the system…

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@CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 2026-07-25 03:58

The only national emergency is him raping kids. Bullshit cunt of a president. Even Joe Biden was better.

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@PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2026-07-25 16:58

Imagine what the US would be like right now if Kamala had won. The US likely wouldn’t be as hated or disgraced as it is now.

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@cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 2026-07-25 19:38

non north American curious: Donnie announced a third term yesterday I think, does this means that Obama can also run? it would be interesting to see it, because from what I see in social media, Obama is loved and missed

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