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In an April 29 essay in The Washington Spectator, “Emergency Planning: The President Is Preparing to Challenge 2026 Midterms. The Country Can Still Act to Protect Them,” Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy for Libya and a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement during the Clinton presidency, described the following hypothetical sequence of events.

“The scenario would likely begin by Trump declaring that the election results were rigged, as he has in the past,” Winer wrote, and then compliant federal authorities would “require investigation of those results before they were finalized.”

The president could “then call on congressional leadership to proceed as if the announced results are invalid, urging the speaker of the House to organize the chamber on the basis of a Republican majority, and encouraging similar action in the Senate, urging them to ignore any jurisdictions in which the federal government was still undertaking its review.”

Protests of Trump’s actions would provide him with fresh opportunities to exercise autocratic power. Trump would then

“direct the attorney general to treat coordinated demonstrations as organized political violence. He could instruct the F.B.I. and Joint Terrorism Task Force to identify organizers, map funding sources and examine any connections — real or alleged — to foreign actors.

Federal agents would then make arrests. They would arrest individuals at protests, whether or not violence has occurred.”

In order to conduct mass arrests, Winer pointed out, “the largest existing detention infrastructure is operated by the Department of Homeland Security, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which maintains a large paramilitary force and a nationwide network of facilities.”

At the same time, Winer noted, the president could take over communication systems, including “internet service providers, social media platforms and communications infrastructure”; seize property; and freeze bank accounts.

“These actions could be taken broadly at the outset, before courts rule on their legality, preceding any form of judicial review,” Winer said.

In other words, time would be on Trump’s side, with the likelihood that Congress and the courts would be slow to react, and both might well passively accede to Trump’s effective cancellation of an election.