Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN

[Tactical Peek]

Source: CNN

Exclusive: Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN

By Zachary Cohen and Paula Reid, CNN

Updated 8:22 PM ET, Mon January 31, 2022

Reporter calls Trump WH draft executive order 'fictional thriller'

(CNN) Former President Donald Trump's advisers drafted two versions of an executive order to seize voting machines -- one directing the Department of Defense to do so and another the Department of Homeland Security -- as part of a broader effort to undermine the 2020 election results, multiple sources tell CNN.
The idea of using the federal government to access voting machines in states that Trump lost was the brainchild of retired Col. Phil Waldron and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, the sources said. Both Army veterans spread misinformation about the election being stolen from Trump.
While advisers publicly floated the idea at the time, revelations that two draft executive orders were actually drawn up for different agencies to carry out the job underscores the extent to which the former President's allies wanted to weaponize the powers of his lame-duck administration to overturn the election.

Any operation for the military or federal agents to seize voting equipment for political purposes would have been unprecedented in US history.





Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/trump-executive-orders-seize-voting-machines/index.html

[ffr]

1. Echo

DOJ?

Hello, anybody home?

[Irish_Dem]

3. I know, the more we hear the worse it gets.

Are we the only ones paying attention?

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Apparently.

Prosecutors certainly aren’t.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Things start out strong, then just fizzle out.

So curious, I wonder why.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. And why are these men not charged criminally? Are we just accepting this shit?

[leftieNanner]

4. At the very least

those two retired military guys should lose their pensions.

There probably isn't a mechanism for that to happen, but I wish there were.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. I'm incredulous that the U.S. military system can't hold them accountable for violating

their Constitutional oath and the various actions they willfully committed and continue to commit. Maybe it has all been an illusion, and there really are no "guard rails"?

[SeattleVet]

14. The DoD *could* hold them responsible.

They could be recalled to active duty and be subject to court martial under the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice).

Losing their pensions would be the least of their worries at that point.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen, though.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Has this kind of action ever been perpetrated before? And if so, ignored? I can't fathom

the damage done to the miltary's reputation if these former officers are allowed to engage in sedition and perhaps treason, in plain view.

[Deminpenn]

21. +1

This is what should happen.

[gab13by13]

10. Taking their pensions won't matter,

either Putin or American oligarchs will reimburse them.

[monkeyman1]

12. they could probably, but don't want to step on any toes !

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. I keep asking the same question

WTF is wrong with our justice system?

[Dan]

7. WTF's wrong with our justice system...

Well, it originated to protect property - and - attack POC and keep women in their place.

So, it wasn’t geared to bring to justice Rich, White Men.

[OMGWTF]

11. Lying traitor Flynn is probably still getting a six-figure retirement check from the taxpayers

How he isn't busted down to PFC and stripped of all benefits is a fking travesty.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Since college Flynn has been totally supported by the US taxpayer.

Big salary, food, housing, healthcare, huge pension.
The whole works.

And this is how he repays the citizens. With treachery, deceit and treason.

[Cha]

8. Fucking INSANE WHINER LOSER

[Rocknation]

9. Ironically, it may not have worked since Covid made so many people vote early or by mail

Last edited Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Census.gov, April 2021: In the 2020 election, 69% of voters nationwide cast their ballot nontraditionally — by mail and/or before Election Day...By comparison, about 40% of voters cast their ballots by mail and/or prior to Election Day in 2016.

Rocktivity, DU November 2020:



With a combination of overall higher turnout (despite the voter suppression attacks); most of Biden's votes being cast early or by mail; and only about just one third of the votes actually being cast on Election Day, maybe there just weren't enough blue in-person machine votes to flip.

Rocknation

[progressoid]

15. But they were just DRAFTS!!11!! So it doesn't mean anything!1!1!

Seriously, heard some dipshit use that as an excuse on AM radio. Might have been Hannity.

[PJMcK]

16. Hey, Pentagon!

There are two former officers advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.

What are you going to do about it?!

Didn't you military types swear an oath to protect the Constitution?

More hypocrisy.

Neither the Department of Justice nor the Department of Defense have done a damn thing to protect our country from these treasonous seditionists even though they have the power and authority to do so.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. I'm surprised he didn't declare a national emergency

and then issue an EO declaring the results of the election null and void and himself as the winner.

I'm sure he could get one his scumbag lawyers -- Eastman comes to mind -- to tell him he has a right to take such an action.

[question everything]

22. This still boggles my mind. Are there no "law and order" R's who would

speak about it?