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👀 Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) are back in the news.

"A former official from Donald Trump’s first term is sounding the alarm about a so-called “Doomsday Book” that could deliver the president unprecedented power if he acts upon it."

Quick 🧵

About once a year the MSM resurfaces a discussion about the PEADs. They are clearly concerned about how Trump may be leveraging them, and I do think I can prove he is.

Back in 2013, the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) was tasked with “working on and updating a series of Presidential Emergency Action Documents.”

Every year throughout their review, the OLC would submit a budget request to the House Committee on Appropriations in order to fund the cost of their review. There were 5 total budget requests:

The OLC budget requests for the years 2013 - 2016, while Barack Obama was President, revealed 56 “current” PEADs which they had been reviewing.

The final OLC budget request from the year 2017 is the only one that occurred while Donald Trump was President of the United States. Here is that same paragraph regarding PEADs from 2017:

What we have here is a small, yet extremely significant change in the wording. We went from 56 PEADs “existing at the present time” under Obama to “close, but not precisely” 56 PEADs under Trump.

This means there exist either more or fewer than 56 PEADs, and that number changed while Trump was President.

This is the latest information we have and it comes from 2017. There have been no further OLC budget requests since.

Congress has been attempting to gain access and insight into the PEADs since at least 2020 and they have been using the MSM to help push the fearmongering over how Trump may use them.

I have discussed and written about PEADs extensively over the last 5 years. I encourage you to watch our show tonight and read my article on PEADs which can be found here:
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