Trump Denies Deploying Military to Overturn Election

US President Donald Trump denied, Sunday, his national security adviser Michael Flynn’s idea of deploying military to overturn election, calling it fake news.

“Martial law = Fake News. Just more knowingly bad reporting!,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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American media reported that Flynn, who proposed this idea, was present at a meeting during which it was discussed, claiming that Trump could deploy the military to swing states he lost to President-elect Joe Biden in order to “rerun” the presidential election.

“There is no way in the world we are going to be able to move forward as a nation,” Flynn sated. “He could immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these machines, on his order.”

“He could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states,” Flynn told Newsmax. “I mean, it's not unprecedented. These people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done. Martial law has been instituted 64 times.”

Axios reported, Saturday, that even some of Trump’s long-loyal top officials had  been dismayed by his behavior, including his interest in Flynn’s views, as one senior official mentioned that the latter “spends his time talking to conspiracy nuts who openly say declaring martial law is no big deal.”

On the other hand, the US President has been considering naming Sidney Powell a special counsel investigating voter fraud allegations.

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Sidney was a lawyer who helmed some of his campaign’s early and unsuccessful legal challenges to November’s election results.

Most of his advisers rejected the idea, including Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, who in recent days sought to have the Department of Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn the US President’s loss in the election, according to two of the people briefed on the discussion.