State election officials were left unnerved after being summoned by the FBI to a mysterious conference to discuss “preparations” for this year’s midterm elections, which President Donald Trump has recently called for Republicans to “nationalize” in violation of the Constitution.
On Tuesday, election officials in all 50 states received an email from Kellie M. Hardiman, who identified herself as an “FBI Election Executive.”
Hardiman said the officials were invited to a call on February 25 with “your election partners” at the FBI, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
That word “contemplates” bothers me. That’s the kind of weasely word that someone like Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller would seize on and parse all the way to Hell, with every mouthpiece in the Conservative Propaganda Machine trailing right behind him.
MAGA will claim that it means we should think about and consider allowing states to establish their own election systems, but it doesn’t necessarily say that the decision is made. Contemplates means to think about, meditate on, consider deeply, etc. It doesn’t sound like a certainty. At least, MAGA isn’t going to think so.
And MAGA will be willing to fight that fight for as many elections as you want to fight them on it. Until we crush MAGA mercilessly, and purge them from our government and our society.
It’s not in the Constitution, it’s in that person’s summary.