Military Source: “Trump signed the Insurrection Act” – The Masterpiece of Trump Against the Deep State

 

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A military source: “Trump signed the Insurrection Act.” The masterpiece of Trump against the deep state

 

CESARE SACCHETTI

 

The latest article published by the American journalist Laurie Roth could be the key to everything.

 

Basically, it could be the key to understanding what has been happening in the last six months within the United States.

 

Roth claims she had a phone conversation with a high-level military source who leaked a stunning revelation to her.

 

A few days before leaving the White House, on January 14, Donald Trump would sign the act known in the United States as “Insurrection Act”, which confers special emergency powers to the President of the United States in order to quell rebellions and acts that can harm the sovereignty of the country.

 

The journalist in her article entitled “Are the military and Trump in control?” claims that “Regarding the speculation/confusion as to whether President Trump signed the Insurrection Act or not, he did. He signed it on Jan 14th, 2021.”

 

Roth also claims that the signing of the act would give President Trump an extension of two months of his Presidential powers.

 

At the end of the first extension, the military gave Trump a second extension that apparently expired on May 20. According to Roth, it is quite likely that a third extension of the Act occurred. This prorogation allowed the US armed forces to be the real de facto government of the United States, as the Insurrection Act itself prescribes.

 

At this point, the first natural and spontaneous objection to the claims made by Laurie Roth would be to question the allegation that it is not possible to trigger the Insurrection without an official proclamation made by the President of the United States.

 

In other words, the act must be public and therefore cannot be a private decision. Actually, this is not entirely correct, and it is the Insurrection Act itself that says so.

 

The Insurrection Act was originally approved by Congress and ratified in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson.

 

Later, the provisions contained in this law were inserted in another law known as “Posse Comitatus Act” of 1878.

 

Some of these provisions prescribe that, for matters of national defense from external threats, it is not required to follow the standard procedure to trigger the Insurrection Act.

 

According to some juridical interpretations, this means that in this case, the President is not bound to inform the Congress of his decision and to make an official proclamation of the Act.

 

If the security of the country is at risk by threats that can overthrow the President and the Constitution, then the Commander in Chief can sign the Act without making any official announcement.

 

In emergency situations, the President can also dispose of other extraordinary powers that perfectly abide by the Constitution and the federal laws.

 

A few people are probably familiar with the PEAD, an acronym which stands for “Presidential emergency action documents”.

PEAD’s creation dates back to the Eisenhower administration during the first half of the 50’s and they are acts specifically conceived to face emergency situations and guarantee the “continuity of government.”

 

At that time, the main concern was to ensure a functional government in case of a nuclear conflict.

 

PEAD’s powers were extended in the following decades, and now they include other potential crisis scenarios.

 

However, these acts have a peculiar characteristic. As the Brennan Center for Justice correctly points out, they are “secret” and “they are not even subject to congressional oversight”. Therefore, there’s no way that Congress might know if the President resorted to PEAD to deal with an emergency situation.

 

Only a very few top ranks of the military would be informed of their activation, which implies that the Commander in Chief has extraordinary powers to cope with an exceptional crisis.

 

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