Former US President Donald Trump has questioned the outcome of the 2020 US election.
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A draft executive order written by Donald Trump’s White House in the weeks following his defeat in the 2020 election directed the nation’s top military leader to seize voting machines, a report said. said on Friday.
Documentation of the explosion, released by the National Archives and obtained by Politico, highlighting the extreme measures Trump may have been willing to take to cling to power against the will of voters who have chosen Joe Biden as their next president.
December 16, 2020, the order seeks to appoint a special counsel to bring charges of any fraud allegations arising from the forfeiture. But it was never signed.
It was among more than 750 records turned over to the House select committee investigating the 2021 Capitol attack after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s appeal to block their release.
“Effective immediately, the Secretary of Defense will seize, collect, store, and analyze all machinery, equipment, electronically stored information, and records and documents necessary for retention.” , the three-page draft said.
The document that counters many debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines being hacked by figures in Trump’s orbit is now being pushed by congressional investigators, including right-wing attorney Sidney Powell , targeting.
She falsely told reporters that the election was targeted by “communist money through Venezuela, Cuba and possibly China.”
Powell and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani led unsuccessful efforts to get the courts to release election results in key swing states in the weeks following Trump’s defeat.
The former president and his allies have spent months in front of widespread false claims of fraud, despite experts in his government insisting it was the safest vote in history. US history.
The claims were also dismissed by Trump-appointed attorney general Bill Barr and Trump was ultimately impeached for inciting an attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
The draft order bears similarities to a plot outlined in a Powerpoint presentation to keep Trump in office that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the selection committee last year.
That document envisages U.S. Marshals seizing ballots for a recount of the 50 states.
The draft executive order that emerged Friday focuses specifically on Dominion-made touchscreen ballot markers used in Georgia, where manual recounts and machine recounts confirmed Biden’s victory.
It repeated false accusations that Dominion was “owned or tightly controlled and influenced by foreign actors, nations and interests” and alleges that its machines were intentionally designed designed to create “systematic fraud”.
Powell and Giuliani are fighting multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuits from Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting machine company.
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