Even though the U.S. Congress certified the 2020 Presidential electoral college results on January 7th, individuals have continued to spread conspiracy theories on how President Trump will actual retain the presidency for another four years. Anyone with a foundational knowledge of American civics know this is not the true; however, it is interesting to parse out the arguments:
19th President
Picked up on Reddit from what appears to be a Parler post by ClericJohnPreston (play off a character from the 2002 sci-fi film Equilibrium), the post suggests that on March 4th, Trump will be sworn in as the 19th president. This builds on sovereign theory that the United States has been a corporation for a while. Some theories suggest the U.S. became a corporation between the end of the Civil War and the abandonment of the gold standard in 1933. This author believes it happened in 1871. Conditional to this belief is the suggestion that “Biden, Harris, Pence, Pelosi, etc.” must be arrested by January 20th. Then, the “corporation known as United States” will cease to exist, and Trump will become the 19th president (following, of course, Ulysses S. Grant).
Nye County, Nevada, Post
Another interesting conspiracy post is this one from Nye County Central Committee. The author discusses that Trump has not conceded to Biden, and, because of this (and other reasons), he will be sworn in on January 20th. Apparently, Trump knew of an election conspiracy and predicted that there would be a 4am dump of ballots. (This has been fact checked by Reuters.) This dump is proof that there is a conspiracy against Trump.
Among the other claims is the mention of the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot and how “95%+” of the people in the building were Antifa. Interesting since the FBI has been arresting people, including a Des Moines, Iowa, individual arrested by my former FBI team.
The author concludes with some benchmarks to look for, including a social media blackout, the use of the Emergency Broadcast System, and “high profile” arrests before January 20th.