Cleta Mitchell: Trump whisperer
“The president’s authority is limited in his role with regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States — as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have,” said Mitchell, a prominent anti-voting lawyer who played a key role in Trump’s failed bid to overturn the 2020 election, in an appearance on a podcast hosted by the Christian conservative leader Tony Perkins.
“Then, I think maybe the president is thinking that he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward,” Mitchell added.
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Though Mitchell has no official role in the Trump administration, she is well-connected in Trump World. Her anti-voting group, the Election Integrity Network (EIN), received a briefing in June from a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters, Democracy Docket reported. And she was on the December 2020 phone call in which Trump pressed Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” him enough votes to win the state.
Her comments about taking control of elections come amid increasing concern that Trump could try to use the National Guard or law enforcement agencies to obstruct voting in Democratic strongholds in coming elections.
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