Washington A draft superintendent order written by Donald Trump’s White House in the weeks after his defeat in the 2020 election directed the nation’s top military leader to seize voting machines, a report said Friday.
The explosive document, released by the National Libraries and attained by Politico, highlights the extreme measures Trump may have been willing to take to cleave to power against the will of choosers who picked Joe Biden to be their coming chairman.
Dated December 16 2020, the order sought to appoint a special counsel to bring charges on any fraud allegations that arose from the seizures. But it was noway inked It’s among 750-plus records turned over to the House of Representatives select commission probing the 2021 Capitol assault after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s appeal to block their release Effective incontinently, the Secretary of Defense shall seize, collect, retain and dissect all machines, outfit, electronically stored information, and material records needed for retention,”says the three- runner draft.
The document reprises numerous of the debunked conspiracy propositions about addressed voting machines that were pushed by numbers in Trump’s route now being targeted by congressional investigators, including right- sect attorney Sidney Powell She falsely told journalists the election had been targeted by”communist plutocrat through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China.”
Powell and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani led unprofitable sweats to have courts throw out election results in crucial swing countries in the weeks after Trump’s defeat Theex-president and his abettors spent months pressing false claims of wide fraud, despite experts in his own government affirming that it was the most secure vote in US history The claims were also rejected by Trump- appointed attorney general Bill Barr, and Trump was ultimately impeached for inciting the attack on the Capitol by a mob of his sympathizers.
The draft order bears parallels with a plot outlined in a Powerpoint donation to keep Trump in office that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the select commission last time That document imaged US Marshals seizing ballots for a 50- state hand count The draft superintendent order that surfaced Friday focuses specifically on touchscreen ballot- marking bias made by Dominion that were used in Georgia, where a hand count and machine count affirmed Biden’s palm It repeats false allegations about Dominion being” possessed or heavily controlled and told by foreign agents, countries, and interests”and professing that its machines are designedly designed to produce”systemic fraud Powell and Giuliani are fighting billion- bone vilification suits from Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting machine company
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