US: Trump camp prepared to seize voting machines a month after its defeat

It’s an explosive document that highlights the extreme lengths the former Republican president was willing to go to to stay in power. A month after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, a draft White House order directed the nation’s top military official to confiscate voting machines across the United States, according to National Archives documents released Friday by Politico.

“Effective immediately, the Secretary of Defense shall confiscate, collect, preserve and analyze all electronically stored technology, equipment and information” related to the election, the three-page, never-signed draft states. The December 16, 2020 order also provided for the appointment of a special counsel responsible for filing complaints against any allegations of fraud arising from the seizures.

The election was rigged for half of Republican voters.

To justify the project, the document lists a number of conspiracy theories, repeatedly debunked, that voting machines were hacked. It is unknown who wrote it. It is one of more than 750 documents handed over to the House committee investigating the attack on Capitol Hill after the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s appeal to block their release.

This commission, consisting largely of elected Democrats, seeks to determine the responsibility of Donald Trump and his circle for the attack on the House of Congress on January 6, 2021. A year after officially leaving power, Donald Trump claims the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. More than half of Republican voters agree with him, according to opinion polls.