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CBS senior contributor Ted Koppel joined Alice down the rabbit hole during Sunday Morning as he spent his over 10-minute segment spinning a crackpot conspiracy theory which claimed President Trump was getting ready to activate so-called “Presidential Emergency Action Documents” or PEADs. The activation of these secret documents, according to Koppel and his cast of lefty loons, would allow Trump to “suspend our constitution,” stripping away all our rights ahead of the election. One loon said it was the “blueprint to dictatorship.”
Koppel began his segment by playing clips of Trump bombastically bragging about his powers as president. Trump’s vague pontifications gave Koppel just the footing he needed to hold up his conspiracy theory. “We can't know for sure, but what the President appears to have been referring to are his Presidential Emergency Action Documents, often referred to as PEADs,” he told viewers.
The segment then looked to former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) to explain how the secret documents Trump was supposedly alluding to were “based on the research, is suspension of the Constitution, basically. And that's what's worrying, particularly on the eve of the national election.”
Elizabeth Goitein, of the leftist Brennan Center, told Koppel that PEADs were “essentially presidential orders that are drafted in anticipation of a range of hypothetical worst-case scenarios,” and that they began in the Eisenhower administration. They covered “things like martial law, and the suspension of habeas corpus, and the roundup and detention of no suspected of any crime.”
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