The Breakdown Audio | Trump Election Threat Triggers Emergency Drills to Stop Him
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the breakdown. I'm Alison Gill. So we had a big win this past Friday when the Supreme Court ruled six to three that Trump's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEPA. You'll hear me refer to it as IEPA. They're illegal. Those tariffs are illegal, according to the Supreme Court. There was a lot of wins this past week, actually. We saw the New Mexico Attorney General reopened the criminal probe into Epstein's |
| 0:25.5 | Zorro Ranch. We saw Prince Andrew get arrested, albeit for sharing trade secrets with Epstein, |
| 0:32.1 | but I'll take it. The South Korean president was sentenced to life in prison for his attempted |
| 0:36.4 | insurrection. |
| 0:40.4 | Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court. |
| 0:45.0 | A federal judge throughout the Trump administration's mass detention policy. |
| 0:52.0 | And the secretary of the VA, Doug Collins, walked back his rule, gutting veterans' benefits after major backlash from we the people. |
| 0:55.8 | So we've had a series of wins. |
| 0:58.2 | But also this week, I interviewed Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, |
| 1:02.3 | who's running for governor in the great state of Michigan because Big Gretchen Whitmer is termed out. |
| 1:09.1 | And she told me, which put my mind at ease a little bit, |
| 1:13.3 | that Democratic secretaries of state right now are running tabletop exercises for what to do |
| 1:19.1 | in the event the Trump administration attempts to physically interfere somehow with the midterm elections |
| 1:25.4 | by any number of means, including seizing voting machines or |
| 1:29.5 | vote tabulator tapes or ballots, which he wanted to do in 2020, but failed for many reasons, |
| 1:36.1 | or by threatening to post federal officers, ICBP, HSI, at polling locations. |
| 1:42.8 | They're actually having to prepare for these eventualities at the |
| 1:47.5 | state level because as we know, states administer elections, not the president. But Chief Justice |
| 1:55.7 | John Roberts, who just handed Trump a big loss again on Friday, he did a couple of things in his |
| 2:00.2 | immunity ruling that have emboldened Trump, probably leading to the seizure that we saw of ballots down |
| 2:06.2 | in Fulton County. Some of the things that Roberts did, he decided any collaboration between |
| 2:12.6 | Trump and the Justice Department on elections is immune from criminal prosecution. He did that in |
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