Walter Copan

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**Walter Augustus Copan** (July 1, 1989 - July 4, 2067) was an American politician and CEO who served as the 65th President of the United States from 2065 until his death in 2067. A member of the Republican Party, he founded and was CEO of Pacifica Industries, one of the largest companies on earth.

Copan ran for President in the 2064 United States Presidential election without trying to receive the Republican Party Nomination. Come election day Copan would lose the election mainly as a result of running a campaign almost no one knew about. Copan only did the bare legal minimum to qualify as a "presidential candidate" by filling with the FEC. Vincent Kiran won the election however when the electoral collage met to cast their votes, they choose Copan as President despite him not winning a single state. It would come out later he had bribed those members for their votes. Despite the nature of his administration, Copan had several accomplishments while in office including the 2066 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, rooting out of Former PRoC spies still hiding in the United States as well as the most complete effort in American history to beat and cure cancer. His efforts are estimated to have saved at least 3,000,000 people in the United States and 15,000,000 worldwide from the cure's introduction in 2067 until 2110. The largest scientific achievement of the Copan administration was the launch of Voyager 3 and the re-establishment of contact of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 both of which had had communications shut down since 2043.

His assassination in 2067 saw America remain stoic, nearly no one mourned his loss and he was only granted a State funeral out of precedent with incumbent President Thomas Patton being the only President to attend to pay respect to his former master. Every other living President refused to attend.

Medical records declassified in 2109 show that Walter Copan was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, psychosis, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and Obsessive-compulsive disorder. He attempted to hide these diagnoses during his administration but it was common knowledge that he wasn't mentally well with most able to make connect the dots to what he had.

Near constantly regarded as the most corrupt President in American history his administration is ranked as one of the worst in American history generally the third worst just narrowly beat out by William Rowell and Thorton Echevarria. Historians rank Walter Copan as as one of the worst Presidents in American History for his subversion of Democracy, constant corruption and making a mockery of the Vice Presidency by installing a dog into the office.

## Early Life

### Childhood

Born in 1989 to a single mother as an infant he was abandoned by his mother as a newborn near a dumpster in Los Angeles where he stayed for 2 days. Found by a couple who saved his life and would raise him until they both passed away in a car accident in 1992. Copan then went into foster care where he was adopted in 1993 but would be given back to the State just 3 months later for unspecified reasons. Once again adopted by late 1993, his new parents would raise him until his foster mother committed suicide in 1998. He'd spend his time in foster care until 2004 where he would be adopted by another couple who would raise him until adulthood. By his account they were severely abusive towards him, constantly belittling him and beating him for any failure. Copan would graduate from high school in 2009.

### Military Career

Copan would enlist in the United States Navy in 2010 but would be honorably discharged in 2011 after being deemed unfit for service succeeding a mental breakdown.

## Pacifica Industries

In 2033 he founded the company Pacifica Industries and built it up to great success. Within six years Copan had become a billionaire. His success made him a well known and competent businessman who had a gift for managerial governance.

## Presidential Campaign

### Plot to rig the election

Copan, believing he could not run a successful campaign for President decided to use constitutional loopholes to get himself into the Presidency without a single vote cast in his name.

He waited for the 2064 Presidential Election to come and for Vincent Kiran to win the election before watching to see who the several states would choose as their electors. When they were announced he researched each of them and picked out the smallest amount to give himself the bare majority of 270 needed to win and secretly contacted them, offering massive bribes to gain their vote. The gambit worked and the planet was left in shock when he was made the legal President-Elect on December 7, 2064.

### Certification of the Electoral Votes

On January 6th after meeting with President Joe Kennedy III Vice President Calvin Hamel refused to certify Copan's victory. He neglected to certify the election in favor of Vincent Kiran but declared that because so many states having certifications not regular in form or "authentic" and therefor could not be reliably counted. He halted the certification of the vote and took the issue to the supreme court.

### Supreme Court Cases

A supreme court case was brought against this victory as he logically should have had no claim to the Presidency however the Supreme Court ruled that faithless electors were constitutional, even when that gave someone the Presidency who had not won the popular vote in that state.

A second supreme court case was brought against running mate Thomas Patton on the basis of him being a dog and not a person. The Supreme Court again ruled that since Patton was 35 years of age at the time of confirmation he was legally eligible to hold the office, this sparked outrage that the Supreme Court would rule a dog could ever hold an office within government, let alone Vice President.

Copan was declared President-Elect on January 8, 2065 and Thomas Patton Vice President-Elect. With mass protest taking over, the Committee on Inaugural Ceremony refused to hold a standard inauguration for Copan.

President Kennedy also declined to invite Copan to the Whitehouse and Copan would be quietly sworn in as President at the Lincoln Memorial on January 20, 2065.

# Presidency (2065-2067)

## Investigation into the 2064 Election

After being sworn in Copan was brought before the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the accusations he bribed the electoral collage. He denied the allegations for more than two years before admitting guilt on June 31, 2067. The House ran with the new admission and formally impeached President Copan on July 3, 2067.

## Tax Cuts

One of the few legislative accomplishments of the Copan Administration was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2066. Copan signed it January 1, 2066.

## NASA funding

The Copan administration was a heavy investor in NASA. During his term NASA's budget increased from 28 billion in 2064 to 84 billion in 2066.

### Voyager Spacecrafts

During his term and at his insistence, MASA was successfully able to reconnect with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 for the first time in 23 years.

## Assassination

On July 4th Copan was stepping off Marine One when Joshua Dancer, a Senior Aid to the President produced a knife from his coat jacket and stabbed Copan several times in the lung. Copan was rushed to the Hospital where doctors failed to preserve his life.

Thomas Oswald Patton would be sworn in as the 66th President of the United States later that night.

## Allegations of Mental Illness

Copan was said to be suffering from dementia and schizophrenia during the last year of his term. He repeatedly refused to sit before doctors or psychiatrists to be tested and classified his own medical records to prevent their public release.

# Legacy and Death

Walter Copan is near universally ranked as one of the worst Presidents in American History for his subversion of Democracy, constant corruption and making a joke out of the Vice Presidency by installing a dog into the office. He is given some laxation as by the end of his life it was well known he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

Copan probably unintentionally played a massive role in the collapse of the American Deep State.