The caption reads: “An FBI agent escorts one of the police officers and prison guards arrested in a major anti-corruption operation across the U.S. Mr Flynn, who is a popular figure among QAnon followers and who suggested Mr Trump impose martial law to facilitate a do-over of the 2020 election, had the encounter on camera during the shooting. Just more knowingly bad reporting!Ī Google reverse image search of the image in the purported tweet found this Reuters image hosted on the website of photo agency Alamy, showing an 2010 anti-corruption arrest in Puerto Rico, which is unrelated to the claim in the misleading posts. He also called for the immediate arrest of former defense secretary James Mattis for sedition. The tweet reads: “Martial law = Fake News. Under martial law and the Insurrection Act, Trump will have the authority to arrest Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, the Clintons and anybody else who can be proven to be involved in illegal activity, Stone said. In a tweet on December 20, 2020, Trump dismissed claims of implementing martial law. General Michael Flynn, President Trump's first national security advisor and a recently pardoned felon, publicly broached the subject of martial law on the conservative channel Newsmax. No major media outlets reported on Trump’s declaration of martial law on Twitter, according to keyword searches on Google News. There are no tweets matching the text in the misleading post on Trump’s page in Politwoops, a database of deleted politicians’ tweets maintained by US investigative journalism organisation ProPublica. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested in a text message sent three days before Joe Biden was sworn in as president that some of former President Donald Trump's staunchest allies wanted to declare martial law to keep Trump in power. The image was also shared here, here, here, and here alongside a similar claim.Ī search of Trump’s Twitter account for the tweet found no results. According to accounts in The New York Times, CNN and The Wall Street Journal, the president found time on Friday to oversee a turbulent White House meeting to discuss new ways to resist or overturn Biden's victory - with the idea of deploying the military to assist in his fight raised, before being shot down. That included hearing directly from a little-known conservative lawyer advising Trump to take steps that effectively could be called declaration of martial law, the New York Times reported.

With one month to go until Joe Biden takes office, Trump remains fixated on his failed bid to overturn the 2020 election - with his advisors reportedly floating the idea of invoking martial law, triggering outrage and disbelief in Washington, AFP reported. (A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post as of December 24, 2020.) In the ad, the Convention asks President Donald Trump 'to exercise the Extraordinary Powers of his office and declare limited Martial Law to temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian. A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post as of December 24, 2020.

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