Continuity of Power Coup
A Non-Transfer of Power
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/podcasts/the-daily/trump-election-transition.html
If Mr. Trump has declared a secret national security emergency as Commander in Chief to activate a Continuity of Government operation to fight a domestic threat caused by a "rigged" election, how would the public and press know?
In particular if the declaration included provisions to prevent its disclosure with punishment by death of leakage like that for treason or cowardice under fire in combat.
Continuity of Government (COG) regulations provide unique emergency powers to the president, executive departments, the military, law enforcement and intelligence to perform secretly to defend the nation immediately upon a presidential order.
COG training in simulated emergencies is regularly carried out, sometimes partly publicized to send messages to potential enemies. To activate a real COG under deceptive diguise of a training session is part of the operation.
Alleged domestic national enemies are favorites of autocrats to justify executive takeover of democratic societies, whether royal, ideological, theological, political, populist or revolutionary. Control of the military and law enforcement are essential for these to succeed.
Not uncommon for the autocratic aggression to follow a failed election along with accusations of oppositional rigging or fraud, and the loser to exert executive power to defeat the enemy with warmaking procedures: arrests, imprisonments, judicial and extrajudicial executions, torture.