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Trump’s MAGA Pals Push Sinister Martial Law Plot

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Trump’s MAGA Pals Push Sinister Martial Law Plot

Alex Wong/Getty Images Trump’s MAGA allies are pressing him to consider martial law, among other extraordinary measures, if they decide the November midterm elections are “rigged.” Tina Peters, a prominent MAGA election activist, met with Trump in October.

She was convicted in 2024 of crimes tied to a breach of election equipment, then freed this year after Colorado Gov.

Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted her sentence.

Peters and her attorney, Peter Ticktin, also visited Trump at the White House in late June.

Ticktin, who is Trump’s childhood friend, was among the speakers on a Sept.

30 video call for MAGA election activists streamed on Rumble.

They warned of widespread election security breaches they believe will hit in November, and they urgently pushed for remedies.

“There would have to be martial law in the event... [of] another rigged election,” Ticktin said on the call.

He later doubled down in an Axios interview.

“They’ll probably need to be commandeering of ballots and election equipment to make sure that we can get to the bottom of it before anything further occurs,” he said.

Another speaker, Gregory Stenstrom, who testified about alleged voting irregularities in Pennsylvania in 2020, said he most wanted the election paused over security concerns.

Failing that, he proposed Trump invoke the National Emergencies Act to force states to change how they run elections.

Peters was on the call too.

She has been promoting her own plan online since August, which calls for switching to hand-marked paper ballots and manually recounting all votes where feasible.

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