Former president Donald Trump reportedly ordered his attorney Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it could legally seize voting machines, weeks after election day.
about the existence of a never-issued executive order that would have ordered the Pentagon to seize voting machines. The draft document reportedly emerged during a congressional investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot. The three-page draft executive order would have instructed the secretary of defense to “seize, collect, retain and analyze” an unspecified number of voting machines and then submit a report of any possible irregularities within 60 days.
The draft document justified the seizure using a list of unproven, vague or debunked voter fraud narratives, including the false claim that several voting machines are controlled by foreign entities and designed to rig elections.a false claim that for mer Vice President Mike Pence, had the power and authority to overturn the election, something the former president had asked his deputy to do. The statement was in response to a bipartisan effort to make changes to the Electoral Count Act.
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