Giuliani reportedly placed a call to Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli to relay the president’s request. But, according to the Times, Cuccinelli told Giuliani that he did not have the power to examine or take possession of the voting machines.
The request came after Trump declined to use the Pentagon to seize the voting machines, an idea that was floated by his team of outside advisers, the Times reported.
Trump also reportedly brought up potentially using the Department of Justice to take possession of voting machines. According to the Times, the president raised the prospect during a meeting with then-Attorney General Bill Barr in the Oval Office, a gathering that took place not long before Giuliani called Cuccinelli.
Last month, Politico reported on a draft executive order that sought to order the Defense secretary to take possession of voting machines, and appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election.
And on Monday, CNN reported that advisers to Trump drafted another version of an executive order that would have directed DHS to seize voting machines.
Three sources told the Times that retired Army Col. Phil Waldron conceived the idea to order federal agencies, like the military or DHS, to seize voting machines. Waldron reportedly went to former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn with his idea.
Trump also tried to encourage state lawmakers in key battleground states — including Michigan and Pennsylvania — to utilize law enforcement agencies and seize voting machines, according to the Times. The state lawmakers, however, would not get on board with the effort, the newspaper added.
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It is a shame that he was not able to pull it off. Inspection of those machines is one of the critical aspects of verifying what they did in real time. Now Dominion and the other companies in the same control group have been given too much time to go back into those machines and DELETE important contents. One of the biggest FRAUDS in world history and now the great coverup is in full swing!
I agree, and on another note, a large portion of these machines are owned by GEORGE SOROS
enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If we ban voting by mail, and ban the use of fake voting machines, how can the plutocratic party stay in power ?
If we ban voting by mail, and ban the use of fake voting machines, , as in that case, can the plutocratic party stay in power ?
I wish he could have gotten it done. Now we are stuck with with these lying scummy democrats hell bent on destroying this country.
How ridiculous ..such madness and ignorance could only happen in America….Trump’s legacy.
It’s ridiculous to not know the truth if you are so right why it let us look into those machines? If numbnuts won then there would be no doubt. But until then there weren’t enough idiots in the USA to have voted for a crook like Biden
They SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEIZED!!!!