Revealed: Trump reviewed draft order that authorized voting machines to be seized

Posted on AllSides February 4th, 2022
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Weeks after the 2020 election, Donald Trump reviewed a draft executive order that authorized the national guard to seize voting machines and verbally agreed to appoint Sidney Powell, a campaign lawyer and conspiracy theorist, as special counsel to investigate election fraud.

The two previously unreported actions of the former president – which is certain to interest the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack and Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat – came during a contentious White House meeting on 18 December 2020.

Trump never followed through with issuing a formal executive...

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/trump-draft-order-voting-machines-white-house-meeting

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