Trump’s Election Emergency Playbook: QAnon Allies Draft the Order

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The man who lost the 2020 election, refused to accept it, incited a riot over it, got indicted for trying to overturn it, and then won the next one anyway — is still trying to prove the one he lost was stolen. Five years later. We are in year five of the world’s most expensive cope.

So here’s what dropped today. Pro-Trump activists — who say they’re coordinating with the White House — are circulating a 17-page draft executive order claiming China interfered in the 2020 election. The goal? Declare a national emergency. The prize? Extraordinary presidential power over how Americans vote. The Washington Post broke this one, and I need you to pay attention.

The draft would use a national emergency declaration to empower the president to ban mail-in ballots. Ban voting machines. Just — ban the ways people vote. In the name of protecting elections from foreign interference that, after five years and multiple investigations, nobody has actually proven happened.

Let Me Introduce You to the Cast

Peter Ticktin is a Florida attorney who went to military school with Trump back in 1961. He was suspended from practicing law in 2009 for professional misconduct. He filed Trump’s $72 million racketeering lawsuit against Hillary Clinton — a suit that legal experts called “garbage” and “absurd.” He represented Tina Peters, the Colorado clerk who got sentenced to nine years for tampering with voting machines while claiming to expose election fraud. He hand-delivered pardon applications to the White House for January 6 defendants. He went on QAnon-adjacent podcasts asking viewers to send him evidence of “the fake election.” And now he’s the guy telling the Washington Post that Chinese election interference “causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”

This is who’s drafting the blueprint.

Then there’s Jerome Corsi. Harvard PhD who helped popularize the QAnon conspiracy theory. The birther guy — as in, he was instrumental in pushing the lie that Barack Obama had a fake birth certificate. Former Infowars contributor. He’s been going on podcasts for months claiming he and Ticktin have been drafting this exact 17-page executive order. His quote about what it enables:

“A national security emergency will allow Donald Trump to make sure that the elections in 2026 are secure even if we have to go to extreme measures and get the military involved.”

The military. Involved in our elections. To make them secure. Just let that marinate.

This Isn’t Happening in a Vacuum

This is the sequel. Trump already signed an election executive order in March 2025 — the one that tried to require documentary proof of citizenship to register, ban counting mail ballots received after Election Day, and give DOGE access to voter data. Multiple federal judges blocked it. One wrote that “the Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections.” Another noted that “executive regulatory authority over federal elections does not appear to have crossed the Framers’ minds.”

The courts said no. So now the play is: call it a national emergency and try again with more power.

There’s even a DHS official in on this. Heather Honey, Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for “election integrity,” reportedly suggested the national emergency approach months before her appointment. She’s a former private investigator from Pennsylvania who became prominent pushing Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020. And Trump ally Cleta Mitchell — who was literally on the phone during Trump’s infamous “find me 11,780 votes” call to Georgia — has been publicly advocating for emergency powers over elections too.

The Irony Layer Here Is Thick

Executive Order 13848, originally signed by Trump in 2018, declared a national emergency over foreign election interference. Trump himself renewed it. The very framework they want to exploit — Trump built it. The emergency he declared about foreign meddling in elections? He kept extending it. And now his people want to use that same emergency framework to seize control of how elections are run.

The emergency was always the point. The China angle is just the costume.

Here’s What Kills Me

After five years, across dozens of audits, investigations, court cases, and recounts — after his own attorney general said there was no widespread fraud, after sixty-plus lawsuits got thrown out, after CISA called 2020 the most secure election in history — the claim is still “China did it.” And the evidence is still just the claim itself.

The AP found that across six battleground states, only 475 individual ballots were even flagged as potentially affected by fraud out of millions cast. Not 475 thousand. 475. That wouldn’t swing a school board race.

But the point was never the evidence. The point is the emergency. Declare a crisis, claim extraordinary powers, rewrite the rules of voting nine months before the midterms. Ban the methods that make it easier for people to vote. Call it security. Wrap it in patriotism. Get a former Infowars guy and a once-suspended Florida lawyer to write it up, and hand it to the White House.

This is the part where someone normally comments, “Surely the courts will stop this.” And yeah, they’ve stopped the last round. But that’s exactly why this version goes bigger — national emergency powers are a different legal animal. And this administration has invoked emergency powers more than any modern president. They’re testing what sticks.

To Recap

A guy who went to QAnon conferences, a guy who pushed birtherism on Infowars, and a handful of activists who think the 2020 election was stolen are drafting executive orders for the President of the United States. The orders would let him declare a national emergency based on unproven Chinese interference and seize control of American elections.

This isn’t a drill. This is the draft. And the people writing it say the White House is listening.

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