“This was a failed coup and these people are still plotting,” said one observer.
As the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, draft executive orders dated December 16 and 17, 2020 regarding the seizure of voting machines appear to have started as an “authorizing letter” written on November 21.
The letter was written by “supporters on the fringes” of Trump’s circle to three people who were involved in the former president’s numerous failed attempts to find evidence that President Joe Biden’s victory in the election was fraudulent.
The document sought to grant authority to three companies—including two which were also involved in auditing the election results—to send armed workers to seize all voting machines and election data at will.
The letter called for the U.S. Marshals to be involved in the effort and for people involved to be armed “since most of the operations would be conducted under hostile conditions.”
The request “implies that whoever drafted this… views this as some sort of warlike event,” Christopher Krebs, the former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director who Trump fired for affirming that the election had been secure, told the Times.
This was a failed coup and these people are still plotting. https://t.co/ms7bjkbP3z
— Aimee Allison (@aimeeallison) June 4, 2022