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if it wasn’t for the fierce effort to block the Executive plan in the “heated meeting of Dec 18, 2020” — the Election results may have been seized, and turned over to ‘more compliant hands’ ...
Here are some of the details behind that planned deception, to nullify the will of the American people.
Former White House lawyers and Trump allies recalled a heated Dec. 18, 2020, meeting in which they fought over whether there was an avenue to proceed with election challenges.
In recorded testimony shown as part of a Tuesday hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone recalled pressing Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani for evidence of their claims of election fraud but getting none in response.
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[Eric] Herschmann expressed exasperation at Powell’s claim that dozens of lawsuits on behalf of Trump alleging fraud were dismissed because every single judge involved was “corrupt.”
Powell told the committee that she felt Trump should have fired Cipollone and Herschmann on the spot.
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A draft of an executive order prepared for then-President Donald Trump and obtained Friday by Politico would have authorized the secretary of defense to send National Guard troops to seize voting machines around the country in the weeks following the 2020 election.
The order, which was never signed by Trump, also would have appointed a special counsel "to institute all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate based on the evidence collected," and calls on the defense secretary to release an assessment 60 days after the action started, which would have been well after Trump was set to leave office on Jan. 20, 2021.
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The draft executive order Trump reviewed was one of the final versions Powell had prepared. An early version of the document was published by Politico. Another version, obtained by CNN, empowered the Department of Homeland Security instead of the Department of Defense.
But all versions included language that would have allowed Trump to appoint a special counsel to investigate claims of foreign interference in the 2020 election, which the Department of Justice had already determined were without foundation.
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Trump was handed the document when he sat down with four informal advisers – Powell, Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former Trump aide Emily Newman and former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne – who had arrived at the White House unannounced.
Exclusive: Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN
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But Flynn and Trump's former attorney Sidney Powell advocated for the idea during a
now-infamous Oval Office meeting in mid-December 2020. The meeting devolved into screaming matches as some of the President's advisers pushed back on various proposals,
including invoking martial law and naming Powell special counsel to investigate voter fraud claims, CNN reported at the time.
The House select committee is now looking into the effort to draft an executive order and how it began, including the roles of Flynn, Waldron and Powell as well as another Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Bernie Kerik, who worked alongside Giuliani after the election to find any evidence of voter fraud.
Kerik
recently testified to the committee about the effort, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
Raskin: Kerik emails show Giuliani had no evidence of fraud prior to Jan. 6
Christopher Cicchiello, NBC News — 07/12/22
Raskin said that a December 2020 email from Bernie Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and close ally of Rudy Giuliani, shows that they had no evidence of fraud in the lead-up to Jan. 6. In the email, Kerik wrote that their only hope was to "apply pressure" and urge constituents to not certify the vote count.
“We can do all the investigations we want later, but if the president plans on winning, it’s the legislators that have to be moved, and this will do just that,” Kerik's email to chief of staff Mark Meadows reads.
A letter from Kerik's lawyer states it more clearly: "It was impossible for Mr. Kerik and his team to determine conclusively whether there was widespread fraud or whether that widespread fraud would have altered the outcome of the elections," the letter reads.
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by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico.com — 01/21/2022
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It’s not clear who wrote either document. But the draft executive order is dated Dec. 16, 2020, and is consistent with proposals that lawyer Sidney Powell made to the then-president. On Dec. 18, 2020, Powell, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump administration lawyer Emily Newman, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne met with Trump in the Oval Office.
In that meeting, Powell urged Trump to seize voting machines and to appoint her as a special counsel to investigate the election, according to Axios.
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www.politico.com/…
December 16, 2020
PRESIDENTIAL FINDINGS
TO PRESERVE COLLECT AND ANALYZE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
REGARDING THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTION
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States pursuant to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Article 2 section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Executive Orders 12333, 13848, National Security Presidential Memoranda 13 and 21, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA) and all applicable Executive Orders derived therefrom, the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code:
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Accordingly, I hereby order:
(1) Effective immediately, the Secretary of Defense shall seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under United States Code Title 42, Sections 1974-1974(e), including but not limited to those identified in footnote 1. The Secretary of Defense has discretion to determine the interdiction of national critical infrastructure supporting federal elections. Designated locations will be identified in the operation order.
(2) Within 7 days of commencement of operations, the initial assessment must be provided to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The final assessment must be provided to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence no later than 60 days from commencement of operations.
(3) The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security.
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(7) The appointment of a Special Counsel to oversee this operation and institute all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate based on the evidence collected and provided all resources necessary to carry out her duties consistent with federal laws and the Constitution.
----------------- DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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And who were these proposed Election Czars?
The Secretary of Defense:
On Wednesday, November 18, nine days after being appointed, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller started touring the world.
Miller had come into the Pentagon reassuring leaders that he wasn't going to do anything radical, even as his entourage of pro-Trump partisans filled key positions. [...]
Between his appointment and the end of the year, Miller spent 18 days on the road.
The Defense Department's transcript of a January 14 press gaggle with Miller quotes him as saying, "I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me."
www.newsweek.com — 11/18/2021
The Director of National Intelligence:
[John] Ratcliffe, the Trump loyalist and congressman from Texas’ fourth district, is best known for his fiery hearings performances cross-examining witnesses like special counsel Robert Mueller and, last fall, during the impeachment proceedings.
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Because he has precisely two qualifications: He is an intensely loyal attack dog for Trump, and he is not Richard Grenell, [...]
www.wired.com — 05/26/2020
Special Counsel to oversee this operation:
“No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact,” [Sidney] Powell's attorneys said in a court filing [...]
"it was clear to reasonable persons" her statements were her own opinions and legal theories. Members of the public, she said, were free to reach their own conclusions about whether Dominion rigged the election against former President Donald Trump, as Powell repeatedly claimed.
www.nbcnews.com — 03/23/2021
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Nothing but the “best people” — liars, conmen, and crooks.
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Hey DOJ, these baseless Executive Orders, seem to be real evidence — that is leading somewhere.
If only, Cipollone and Herschmann had folded, and done what the corrupt Executive had wanted them to … where would we be now?
Where would our elections be, in whose hands, under whose Emergency Powers to “oversee this operation and institute all criminal and civil proceedings ...” ???
Inquiring Voters really want to know.
Hopefully so does the DOJ. Wherever the evidence leads, right?
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