WORDS: 585 — The Trump White House Actually Thought This Up. Yeah, it’s a draft… but it’s not in the least “only” a draft. Someone in the White House actually thought about this, and Trump senior staff echoed it’s premise in public.
We have a real threat to the country brewing… and the Trumpians actually think they will “win” some civil conflict, should it occur as a result of voting the end of this year and/or in 2024.
CNN reports…. (HERE)
It is unclear who wrote the draft order, which is full of legal language asserting presidential powers to seize the election equipment and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
This nonsense is dated December 16, 2020…..
Sheer idiocy to even have drafted something like this, sheer stupidity for not destroying this thing as soon as it was rejected, suggesting any sort of final decision on using this illegal decree was in flux. Then within a few days of this draft date Sidney Powell and Gen. Flynn both echo the basic reasons, also reflected in this draft, as “justification” for what became the “Big Lie”.
Poltico reports (with a link to the entire 3 page draft document – HERE)….
A draft executive order obtained by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection shows Donald Trump considered seizing voting machines across the country after he lost the 2020 election, using debunked conspiracy theories as a pretext.
Following the seizure, to be overseen by the secretary of defense, Trump would have then appointed a special counsel to pursue “all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate,” a copy of the document obtained by Politico shows.
The never-issued order would have also instructed the defense secretary to issue a report on the 2020 election within 60 days. The executive order is dated Dec. 26, 2020, suggesting Trump would have used it to justify remaining in office through mid-February, well past the inauguration of his successor.
It’s unclear who authored the document, titled “PRESIDENTIAL FINDINGS TO PRESERVE COLLECT AND ANALYZE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION REGARDING THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTION,” but it repeats many of the same conspiracy theories voiced by the former president’s closest advisers ― and the president himself.
An order to appoint a special counsel also aligns with a New York Times report on Dec. 19 that Trump was considering naming Sidney Powell to the position. Powell served as a lawyer for Trump’s campaign and was among several people close to Trump who spread the baseless lie that voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems were rigged to prevent Trump’s reelection.
According to Huffington Post…
“Contrary to the claims of Trump and his advisers, the 2020 presidential election was actually the “most secure in American history,” according to an assessment by the Department of Homeland Security conducted while Trump was still in office.”
The more the January 6th Committee discovers and releases shocking documents, the more it makes any true American want to thank our lucky stars that this coup/insurrection fiasco was such an incompetently planned mess, in order to completely fail. I should make the point that Trump’s imagination in using the military to take over the voting process is strangely akin to to De Santis of Florida and and Kemp of Georgia wanting to create “election police”.. a kind of personal “army”. As I echoed on another blog, this kind of harkens back to the 1930’s use of those “Brown Shirts” fellows, uniformed and (ostensibly “unarmed) that existed to intimate the public at polling places and political rallies for that other political party.
My growing rage at what Trump has done, and is doing, to this country continues.
I agree Doug….Trump has succeeded where so many others had failed in our past……the sad part so many drink his poison and regurgitate it…..My analysis of 2024 is not looking good at all and 2022 will be a massacre unless something changes in the next 10 months. Have a great weekend…..be well…..chuq
You be well yourself, old buddy. Went to the VA today for the yearly thing and it seems I might live a while longer.. all the tests are good. The pandemic has kinda got me to my senses, so I had the doc schedule all those vaccines.. flu, pneumonia, tetanus, shingles…even getting the camera up the posterior for the first time.
I know you have some health issues.. but at least your brain and fingers seem to work so you can still blog. 🙂
I could easily see something like this being implemented.
If the extreme right Republicans get in next time, those ‘Vote-Police’ brownshirts might well become a reality.
Best wishes, Pete.
I’m moving to the UK, Pete… where people want to remove their Prime Minister for not wearing a mask at a party.
I have a feeling his party will survive, even if he goes. The vote of no confidence is a bad idea at the moment. If it fails, he gets another year when he cannot be ousted.
(It wasn’t just the mask, but the ‘gathering’. At the time, rules stated that households could not mix, even outside.
I much don’t care anymore. This country is running downhill. You can blame anyone you want that is your prerogative but please stop shaming people who voted for Trump and believe in him, that is their prerogative too. You know yours is not the only narrative.
Here’s something you can take to the bank, Liz. Absolutely I do not know you, nor do you know me. But if there were an election right now, today, and you were on the ticket against Trump… in a heartbeat I would vote for Elizabeth Kanas-Gonzalez entirely on how I perceive her human qualities from having had our exchanges to date. Here’s another thing.. you engage to understand because you have a passion and compassion.. and you actually want to see people get along. All this I have realized simply from our exchanges and those you’ve had with others. That’s far more than Trump could ever muster up. My concern is my own idea of “patriotism” with Trump, The Man. His political “philosophy” (he doesn’t have one.. but that’s just me) can be discussed, debated, and given voice as it’s very apparent a segment of the population has felt disenfranchised from government. That’s important. I think Trump, The Man, is a clear and present danger to the country…. without question.. and is NOT one bit a voice of what you believe in as he is only about himself. Oh.. and by the way, my “patriotism” is wanting justice for his role in the Jan. 6th insurgency as a proliferation of The Big Lie… and having destroyed the Republican Party. Think of it as similar, in context of course, to your hatred for Russia.
I agree with you Doug on the January 6th issue and I will concede we had a better life and economy during the Trump era but all the glittered was not gold. I did not agree with his puns and insults and that whole administration being halfcocked most of the time. I do not know who they thought they were. But in retrospect anyone person would look better than Biden, perhaps even Trump though I will say I would hard press to vote for him ever again. More like never so I pray we have a Godly candidate, and though I appreciate your endorsement I do not think the US, or the world is ready for an Elizabeth Kanas-Gonzalez endorsement, presidency or any other title for that matter. I would prefer to stay rather obscure and commiserate with people of all types and kinds like we are doing here. Just the same, thank you.
More like never so I pray we have a Godly candidate
Perhaps, though the only POTUS that I believe would qualify as ‘Godly’, in my lifetime, was Carter [maybe honorable mention to Reagan.
As a thought exercise, since this would never happen, would be to have a Chief Executive who a) didn’t pander as religious, to appease voters, and b) didn’t believe that we were living in the ‘end times’.
I would prefer a POTUS who worked to maximize individual Liberty, and who shrank both the size and scope of the Federal government.
I get your point, and I would never consider Carter a Godly president after what he wrote in his book about Israel. He is a hypocrite. I do agree with you about Reagan. I would like to see people; all people have their civil liberties given back to them and big government go away. I would prefer a POTUS that focused on WE THE PEOPLE, Trump came close but shot himself in the foot with his mouth and January 6, 2021. I honestly see nothing good in America’s future no more only more of the same old politicians running the same old games and I do not believe these people started out bad, they just ended up bad and bad for the US and WE THE PEOPLE.
So Liz.. are you suggesting in the “no hope for America because of politicians” that the Constitution itself is the basis for the “no hope”?
Stop twisting what I write. It is exhausting you are like a little kid that keeps going on and on. No, I am making no such suggestion. I suggest you re-read what I write and stop reading the tea leaves that are not there.
Ah… I’m like an exhausting little kid now. I’ll try not to take offense.
No offense intended but you may take that as you see appropriate. A matter of speech. Testing to see if you are again reading “Tea Leaves.” 🙂
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FYI. Sorry for the off-topic in advance. I have another survey going that I am sure will interest you. Pass the word if you so choose or not choose. It will be up for one week and then I will share the results. It’s a rather different survey than what you may be expecting!
Doug,
I had to end reading your post when I read – “According to th the Huffington post…………..”
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Doug, I have been stopping by everyday looking for a new post to read! 🙂