North Carolina Senator Wants Trump To Suspend Civil Liberties To Stay In Power

December 16, 2020, 8:17 am*

Republican officials pledging their loyalty to a disgraced and rejected president rather than to the United States of America and its citizens continue to make absolute fools of themselves as they work to undermine the very foundation of our country.

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North Carolina Senator Bob Steinburg is the latest in a line of politicians making inflammatory statements to prove how far they’ll willing to go if it means their party can stay in power.

“‘President Trump must declare a national emergency based on the Executive Order (EO) from Sep 12, 2018, which names ‘foreign interference’ in US election,’” he wrote on Facebook, quoting General Thomas McInerney. “‘Trump should also invoke the Insurrection Act. He must suspend Habeas Corpus as Lincoln and FDR have both done in times of war.’”

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While the words weren’t originally Steinburg’s, he confirmed that he stands behind McInerney’s suggestions, reiterating Trump’s completely unproven claim that there was widespread election fraud that “stole” the election from him — a claim that has been rejected by the courts dozens of times in the past six weeks.

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“There’s something going on here bigger than what anybody is willing to talk about,” Steinburg told WRAL. “I’m not nuts… I’m not a conspiracy theory person. I don’t like them. I don’t like conspiracy theories at all. But something is going on here that’s bigger than meets the eye.”

WRAL added that Steinburg told them the CIA and FBI are ignoring an attempted coup (presumably by Joe Biden, rather than the actual coup being attempted by Trump) and that someone on the Supreme Court was blackmailed into rejecting the recent lawsuit brought about by Texas against several swing states.

“I hear this all the time,” he said. “All the time.”

Suggesting the president — the outgoing president, at that — take actions that would allow the deployment of the military against U.S. citizens and suspend the right for people in the U.S. to challenge unlawful imprisonment is a major deal. And it’s particularly heinous to suggest doing so based on claims that have absolutely no credible evidence to back them up.

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Every year they wish harder for civil war & violence against the rest of us. They think the legal/social impunity that allows them this means they’re tougher, (not the opposite)

Do they have any idea how badly 60% of the US wants them to face consequences for once in their lives https://t.co/qmyI1T8abS

— personal submersible (@postnebulous) December 16, 2020

That remark is seditious. Sen. Bob Steinburg is a traitor to America and should be arrested for advocating the overthrow of the duly elected government. https://t.co/UCRAf16eF0

— Dr. Meerkat the Kool Kat (@Itse2310) December 16, 2020

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They’re not really hiding it any more. Grift, corruption, voter suppression, xenophobia, racism…

— Nobody special (@NobodySpecial_3) December 16, 2020

This is the Republican party’s M.O. “The rules don’t apply to me unless it’s something I’m in favor of.”

— nextgeneric (@nextgeneric) December 16, 2020

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Unfortunately for both North Carolina and the U.S., Steinburg recently won his reelection and will be returning to the Senate in 2021.

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*First Published: December 16, 2020, 7:31 am