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You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.

Any number of emergent events may create an emergency preventing the congress from gathering. The congress are collaborators and the Supreme Court is compromised.

That would trigger a real civil war.

Trump was giddy at that Zelenskiy meeting a few months ago, when he heard elections were suspended in Ukraine due to the war. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvUBtdHw3g4 Said something like "So, if in 3.5 years, we are in a war... no more elections. Oh, that's good."

> If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.

For instance if hundreds of people are rioting and breaking into the capitol building.

That's what they were trying to do on Jan 6.

If that happens then Trump doesn't get to stay president, the 20th amendment means his term ends regardless.

The 5th Amendment means everyone has the right to due process, but it means nothing if the government refuses to adhere to it.

We're currently seeing people being denied due process as a matter of federal policy all over the US.

I was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning you got a Speaker of the House becoming president (if one exists), and if not, the Senate's president pro tempore.

Not entirely sure where you see murky and undefined situations...

Which would further delay any chance of a transition of power.

More and more it looks like that is what he wants.

Yeah, and who's going to force the issue? The minute someone kicks over a trashcan it'll be declared as the latest national emergency and the loyal forces of law and order will be told to terminate whiny radicals in sight. Would you have believed anyone who told you five years ago that there would be masked federal cops snatching people off the street in broad daylight by 2025?

It would trigger his removal.

How?