Draft EO to the DoD to seize voting machines in 11/20

[pecksniff]

The order was never issued, but, still!

Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”

POLITICO has reviewed both documents. The text of the draft executive order is published here for the first time.

The executive order — which also would have appointed a special counsel to probe the 2020 election — was never issued. The remarks are a draft of a speech Trump gave the next day. Together, the two documents point to the wildly divergent perspectives of White House advisers and allies during Trump’s frenetic final weeks in office.

It’s not clear who wrote either document. But the draft executive order is dated Dec. 16, 2020, and is consistent with proposals that lawyer Sidney Powell made to the then-president. On Dec. 18, 2020, Powell, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump administration lawyer Emily Newman, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne met with Trump in the Oval Office.

In that meeting, Powell urged Trump to seize voting machines and to appoint her as a special counsel to investigate the election, according to Axios.

A spokesperson for the House’s Jan. 6 select committee confirmed earlier Friday that the panel had received the last of the documents that Trump’s lawyers tried to keep under wraps and later declined to comment for this story on these two documents.

 

[BidudeinWi]

The order was never issued, but, still!

It SHOULD have been ordered, you fucking gaslighter!

 

[Dribble]

It SHOULD have been ordered, you fucking gaslighter!

Weird....you tout Federal influence here...but refuse Federal influence when it comes to voting laws such as fair and equal voting

 

[ll74]

It SHOULD have been ordered, you fucking gaslighter!

There's absolutely no reason why it should've been.

That being said, the order was drafted by someone outside the administration from what I understand.

 

[JohnnySavage]

They also have pre-prepared EOs on what to do in the event of an alien invasion (one from space, not Mexico).

Busy work to keep the non-essentials busy.

 

[Champakian]

Peckersniffer is nuttier than rats in a pistachio factory...


as the saying goes.

 

[ll74]

They also have pre-prepared EOs on what to do in the event of an alien invasion (one from space, not Mexico).

Busy work to keep the non-essentials busy.

I'm curious how many non-Administration officials do things like this regularly to advance their agenda.

Get an audience with the President, present their case with EO draft in hand.

 

[Dribble]

They also have pre-prepared EOs on what to do in the event of an alien invasion (one from space, not Mexico).

Busy work to keep the non-essentials busy.

Doubtful. Love to see your sources

 

[JohnnySavage]

Doubtful. Love to see your sources

Lighten up, Francis.

 

[Dribble]

Lighten up, Francis.

Just pointing out the obvious...you talk a tough talk...but the reality is you have nothing

 

[phrodeau]

There's absolutely no reason why it should've been.

That being said, the order was drafted by someone outside the administration from what I understand.

Yes, it came from Mike Lindell.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...nsurrection-act-photographed-notes-2021-1?amp

 

[WillJ8787]

Weird....you tout Federal influence here...but refuse Federal influence when it comes to voting laws such as fair and equal voting

... because Federalism and big govt is ok with him and Repubs so long as it's him and Repubs.

 

[pecksniff]

Consider the optics. Is there any way this would not have looked like a military coup?

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Someone drafted an EO that was never signed. That’s huge!

 

[Lazaran]

.
Deplorables like BabyBooBoo can pretend it wasn't an attempted coup,

Decent people know better.

*nods*

 

[PaxNurgle]

... because Federalism and big govt is ok with him and Repubs so long as it's him and Repubs.

Basically, this.

Some people need a lesson on the proper function of government in a free society. Because the level of basic ignorance here lately has been appalling. People seem to be confusing the way banana-republic dictatorships work with "democracy" these days. This isn't Haiti.

 

[pecksniff]

Someone drafted an EO that was never signed. That’s huge!

What it means is that somebody in the Trump Admin was thinking along those lines. That's how desperate they were to cling to power.