Thing to add to your last paragraph, he also has three months to create a black flag event in order to stay in power. I don't put it past barry for one second.
Wouldn't be hard to do. Bush signed the Executive Order months before leaving office that allowed a sitting President to suspend national elections in the event of ANY Declared Threat To National Security. Obama has been busy-has signed over 900 Executive orders-more than any 1 term president ever and many more than nearly every 2 termers, with a large number of them setting up which agencies will assume which roles when/if Marshall Law is established.
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