This 80-year-old Trump school pal is urging him to seize control of elections: 'He has to'

[turbinetree]

By Travis Gettys
Published March 17, 2026 1:14 PM ET

An octogenarian former classmate of President Donald Trump is urging him to overturn two and a half centuries of election law and take control of this November's vote.

Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old South Florida lawyer who met Trump at New York Military Academy, told Vanity Fair that he has advised the 79-year-old president to issue an executive order that would allow him to seize control of the midterm election.

“Well, he has to,” Ticktin told the magazine. “I wouldn’t recommend this to the president if it were not actually an election emergency occurring, where foreign interests are putting their thumb on the scale of our elections.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-midterm-elections-2676264458/

JFC............hey, Ticktin...........just to give you a heads up..... google Rep. Randy Fine name there zippy............

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. The blind leading the blank

[VMA131Marine]

2. Somehow we managed to have elections in 1864

And during 2 World Wars but now things are so bad the President needs to take over?

That’s bullshit.

[RT Atlanta]

5. this is the right answer VMA131Marine!

n/t

[sop]

3. The only "election emergency occurring" is Trump and Republicans sinking like stones in the polls.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. It's all self inflicted

[Walleye]

6. The right wing believes that Hakeem Jeffries possibly becoming the speaker is a life and death emergency

If they don’t like our rules, why do they play as long?

[GCG]

7. Peter Ticktin

He's the lawyer representing Tina Peters...and the one that called for Trump to send in the 101st Airborne to get her out of prison!

[GiqueCee]

8. So, who the hell is this miserable old buzzard?

He's obviously just as sick and deranged as Trumpleforeskin, not to mention just as much of a pathological liar. And, just for the hell of it, Pete, why don't you show us some proof that "foreign interests are putting their thumb on the scale of our elections"? Nah, didn't think you could. Because there isn't any, you lying fuck!
And, damn! I'm only a year and small change shy of 80 myself, and I don't look that bad! Being evil down to your DNA must have debilitating side effects.

[Turbineguy]

9. Is he in the Epstein Files too?