NEW on CNN: Michele Morrow, the GOP nominee to run North Carolina’s K-12 public schools and its $11 billion budget was at January 6 and posted a video on Facebook that night calling for pro-Trump military coup.https://t.co/LI1xs5t5CK pic.twitter.com/wcQfAjpIhL
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ABC 11: Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riot at the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put “the Constitution to the side” and use the military to stay in power. In a deleted Facebook livestream she filmed from her hotel room, Morrow called for mass arrests of anyone who helped certify the 2020 election.
Here’s part of what she said:
President Trump is still president, until the 20th. So, he can still invoke the executive order against voter fraud. And now, he has every player that participated in his sights, and they can all be arrested for treason,” Morrow said in the video. “And if the police won’t do it, and the Department of Justice won’t do it, then he will have to enact the Insurrection Act, in which case, the Insurrection Act completely puts the Constitution to the side, and says, now, the military rules all.
And let me tell you, President Trump has the military on his side, because the military, and many leaders in the military, who love this nation, and who love our Constitution, and who have put their life on the line to protect the freedoms of people in the United States that they will never meet, they chose President Trump to be their candidate,” she continued. “So, as long as he invokes the Insurrection Act before the inauguration, then, he’s going to be re-inaugurated, he’s going to be put back in.
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