Trump’s unsigned executive order ordered the Pentagon to seize voting machines

One month after the presidential defeat of Donald Trump in 2020, a draft White House executive order, which was never signed, ordered the Pentagon to seize voting machines throughout U.S, according to documents disclosed Friday.

The explosive text, published by the National Archives and obtained by the news outlet Politico, highlights the measures that Trump he may have been willing to drink to cling to power after Joe Biden won.

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Dated December 16, 2020, the decree also provided for the appointment of a special attorney to file complaints for any allegations of fraud arising from the seizures.

“Effective immediately, the Secretary of Defense will seize, collect, retain, and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records,” says the three-page draft.

To justify this draft decree, the document lists a series of conspiracy theories -repeatedly denied- about the fact that the electoral machines would have been hacked. It is not known by whom it was written.

The text is one of the more than 750 documents delivered to the special committee of the House of Representatives investigating the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, after the Supreme Court rejected the former president’s appeal to block its disclosure.

This committee, made up mainly of Democratic legislators, seeks to establish the responsibility of Trump and his entourage in the assault on the seat of Congress to prevent the certification of Biden’s victory.

Among those targeted by investigators is attorney Sidney Powell, who told reporters the election had been the subject of “communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and probably China.”

Powell and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani unsuccessfully tried to get the courts to throw out election results in key states in the weeks after Trump’s defeat in November 2020.

The former president and his allies spent months pressing false claims of widespread fraud, despite members of his own administration saying it was the safest vote in US history. The claims were also rejected by Trump-appointed Attorney General Bill Barr.

A year after officially leaving power, Trump maintains that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. According to opinion polls, more than half of Republican voters agree with him.

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