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At the White House on Friday, President Trump held what may have been
his most deranged meeting yet. In it, the president raged at his
loyalists for betraying him, and discussed taking extralegal measures
to overturn the election.

The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, convicted felon Michael Flynn, and
Rudy Giuliani. One plan floated at the meeting was for Trump to appoint
Powell as a “special counsel” overseeing allegations of voter fraud. Powell’s voter fraud claims are so fantastical she has been mocked
even by other far-right legal conspiracy theorists. Andrew McCarthy,
a former birther and author of one book titled How Obama Embraces
Islam’s Sharia Agenda and another calling for his impeachment on
multiple counts, has described Powell’s vote-fraud claims as “loopy.”

Trump also reportedly brought up Flynn’s proposal, which he has
expounded on cable news, to impose martial law and direct the military
to hold a new election. “At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr.
Trump asked about that idea,” reports the Times.

Political scientists have debated whether it is accurate to describe
Trump’s efforts to overturn the election as a “coup,” an “autogolpe,”
or neither. Trump’s interest in deploying the military to cancel an
election he clearly lost certainly seems to resolve that debate, at
least in terms of his intent.

There is no reason to believe Trump commands the power to actually
implement any of these wild ideas. Trump’s best chance to steal the
election was to have the decisive voting margin in the Electoral
College determined by the counting of mail-in ballots that were mailed
before, but arrived after Election Day. This would have let him either
persuade the Republican-controlled Supreme Court to invalidate those
decisive ballots, or Republican-controlled state legislators to
disregard their state’s voting results and appoint pro-Trump electors
to represent their state.

But the election was not close enough for him to pursue either
strategy, whatever chance he had for some kind of Bush v. Gore replay
has passed. The measures he is now contemplating lie outside the
normal framework for resolving election disputes, and would require,
at minimum, almost uniform levels of GOP support.

Trump does not have that.

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