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Trump's Staff Planned a Military Coup
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24:17Now PlayingTrump had a plan to seize voting machines
A draft executive order that then-President Donald Trump considered signing in December 2020 would’ve directed the Pentagon to seize voting machines in key states and hunt for evidence of fraud, according to a draft published by Politico.
Trump never signed the executive order. But it would’ve directed the Secretary of Defense to “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records” related to Trump’s false claims of an international vote-rigging conspiracy to deprive him of a second term in the White House, according to the draft.
It is unclear who wrote the draft order, which is full of legal language asserting presidential powers to seize the election equipment and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
The draft also said the defense secretary could identify National Guard units to be federalized to help the effort. Any operation for the military or federal agents to seize voting equipment for political purposes would’ve been unprecedented in US history, and tantamount to a coup.
The draft appears to be one of the documents that Trump fought to block from the January 6 select committee, which is investigating his attempts to subvert the 2020 election. In a court filing last year, the National Archives said that Trump had asserted executive privilege over “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity” which was four pages long.
One source who was interviewed by the January 6 committee told CNN they were asked about the existence of a draft memo that outlined plans to seize voting machines. But the source couldn’t confirm that that the questions were specifically about the draft published by Politico.s
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