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Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines
The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled "Remarks on National Healing." Both are reported here in detail for the first time.


1/21/20
Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.” Politico has reviewed both documents. The text of the draft executive order is published here for the first time. The document can be found here.....
Presidential Findings To Preserve Collect And Analyze National Security Information Regarding The 2020 General Election
The draft executive order shows that the weeks between Election Day and the Capitol attack could have been even more chaotic than they were. It credulously cites conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia and Michigan, as well as debunked notions about Dominion voting machines.The order empowers the defense secretary to “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under” a U.S. law that relates to preservation of election records. It also cites a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Additionally, the draft order would have given the defense secretary [a Trump appointee] 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. That suggests it could have been a gambit to keep Trump in power until at least mid-February of 2021.
A "report" cited by Donald Trump bases his voting machine seizure actions on “the forensic report of the Antrim County, Michigan voting machines.”
However, that report was produced by Russ Ramsland who confused precincts in Minnesota for those in Michigan, according to the Washington Post. The Michigan Secretary of State subsequently released a report debunking election conspiracy theories in Antrim County’s November 2020 election