December 19, 2020

Trump is just itching to declare martial law

Featuring: ​Jim Golby

Source: Task and Purpose

Journalist: Jared Keller

Some dangerous ideas about the role of the U.S. military in American civil society are finding an audience in President Donald Trump.

Both the New York Times and Axios report that the president on Friday welcomed retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s pardoned former national security adviser, to a meeting that, at one point, touched on the prospect of potentially using the military to somehow overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that former Vice President Joe Biden decisively won.

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Author

  • ​Jim Golby

    Former Adjunct Senior Fellow, Clements Center for National Security, The University of Texas at Austin

    Jim Golby is a former Adjunct Senior Fellow at CNAS. Jim received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.S. in American Government from the United Sta...