Report: Former President Trump had a role in plan to seize voting machines

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe, Texas.

Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle by way of AP

A new report from The New York Occasions means that former President Donald Trump was extra straight concerned with a plan to grab voting machines in the course of the 2020 election than beforehand thought.

• The New York Occasions report stated that Trump directed his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to name the Division of Homeland Safety to see if the DHS might legally management voting machines in three swing states.
• Giuliani made the decision to the division’s performing deputy secretary, who stated he didn’t have such authority.
• Trump additionally reportedly raised the chance to Lawyer Normal Invoice Barr of whether or not or not the Justice Division might take management of the machines, per The New York Occasions. Barr shot down the thought.

Learn the complete report at The New York Occasions.

In the meantime ... Two advisers to then-President Trump drafted two variations of an government order that might have seized voting machines, CNN studies.

• One order would have directed the Division of Protection to make the transfer.
• The opposite would have had the Division of Homeland Safety seize the machines.

Why it issues: These are all bits of knowledge that trace at “a broader effort to undermine the 2020 election outcomes,” based on CNN.