Elections are safe, they say. Clean as a whistle. No cheating, no foolishness; it’s all on the up and up. Anyone who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist and probably some right-wing wacko. If that’s true, then Mr. Trump’s promise, if elected, to prosecute election fraud to the fullest extent of the law is a meaningless pander. If no law is broken, then there is no extent to which one might need to go.
So, why would anyone be upset about that? He might as well have said, when elected, I will prosecute flying nuns for violating FAA rules.
The goofy progs running Axios think that this is provocative.
Why it matters: Trump is saying, with specificity, how he would increase the use of federal power if he returns to the White House. No need to rely on what advisers and allies say — he says it himself.
The job of the president is to enforce the laws written by Congress and signed into law by any president. Mr. Trump says he will enforce the law, which includes deporting illegal aliens who were allowed in or transported in by the current administration in violation of the law (we can assume that he would prosecute illegals who voted, which is also against the law.), and this is somehow provocative.
That sort of framing is far more dangerous than a few thousand Haitians eating ducks and cats in Ohio. If enforcing federal law is a dangerous use of the Constitutionally appointed power of the office of the President, but ignoring the law is not, what sort of leaders are Harris and Biden? The kind that exercises power regardless of law to do what the Democrat lickspittles at Axios claim to fear.
