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September 25, 2026 - Transcript
There is growing concern among experts about what President Trump might do as he continues to push baseless election fraud claims and as the Republican Party appears headed toward losses in the midterm elections. Democrats right now are enjoying an eight-point lead over the GOP in the latest generic battle for control of the House. A new report from the Atlantic magazine details how a slew of outside advisors to President Trump are urging him to take control of federal elections this November.
A key player in the scheme according to the Atlantic is an attorney named Peter Tickton. He's a longtime friend of Trump. They went to military school together as teenagers.
Tickton told the Atlantic magazine that Trump could decide to declare martial law on or around election day. Tickton is also the attorney for convicted election denier Tina Peters out of Colorado. Her sentence was commuted by Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
Soon after her sentence was commuted, her time in prison was commuted, she met with President Trump at the White House. This is what Peter said about that meeting. There is a plan.
Yesterday when I was with the president he talked to, and I can't get into the plan. Understood, please don't. But we talked, you know, he basically said to his lead counsel to do what I was asking.
There is a plan, says Tina Peters, and it's not just the figure circling the president saying this out loud. President Trump himself has publicly called for greater federal control of elections. This is what he told his former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino on his podcast in February.
The Republicans should say we want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. And then there's Trump's response back in August to radio host Wayne Allen Root's suggestion that he should declare a national security emergency to mandate his preferred changes to the elections.
You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. Let me just say that stranger things have happened. Okay, I'll leave it at that.
He said, let me just say that stranger things have happened. Okay, I'll leave it at that.