The Insurrection Act's Troubling Trail Donald Trump's recent speech has set off alarm bells among experts and officials, as he made sweeping claims about election interference without providing concrete evidence.
This rhetoric may be paving the way for the invocation of the Insurrection Act, a law that could grant the president extraordinary powers to deploy the military to polling stations.
Trump's speech was a masterclass in misdirection, with the White House releasing a document dump on its website containing cherry picked intelligence and discredited reports.