military was perly involved and an executive order that would have kept donald trump in power for 60 days long after the election was supposed to be certified and the inauguration was supposed to have taken place and the idea that this was a mob attacking a capitol building is fading into the background and this is a plot to overturn democracy is coming into sharp relief. you re exactly right, ali. so much of this was known in terms of us seeing it in real time and it were spine ting eming and it was real. national security adviser humiliated and former national security adviser michael flynn had said that the president should seize all voting machines and declare martial law, and then lo and behold there is a memo in which he and sydney powell s theories can stop the
archives. those files also include visitor logs, speech drafts, presidential diaries and handwritten notes and they re all official. these aren t musings and these were things that were on people s computers in the white house, actual things. politico reports that the order was dated december 16, 2020, consistent with baseless proposals that were made in those same days by the lawyer why sydney powell who was a lawyer to the then president which is interesting because axios reports that sydney powell urged trump to seize voting machines during a december 18th meeting that she attended with former trump national security adviser michael flynn, the former trump administration lawyer emily newman and the former overstock.com ceo patrick burn. remember that, by the way, the next time you need to buy cheap furniture on overstock.com. the former ceo of that company was funding the insurrection. along with that damning new evidence, the january 6th
election proclaiming that it was faked and rigged was actually put down in writing and the president was willing to consider it. he held a meeting with these very allies who were spouting these this crazy talk so that they could discuss how they could do it. what i think is really important to keep in mind, ali, about this is sydney powell s press conference. the one that you shared there in the small part, she claimed that sort of the ghost of hugo chavez had gotten into the machines essentially that through the dead hand of the venezuelan leader there had been this interference in our election. well, behind the scenes and i m sure the january 6th committee will reveal this in painful detail, behind the scenes many of the people off camera who worked for donald trump were aghast. they said we can never have her do a press conference again. we cannot believe that this laughable thing has been said on
reveal a plot by theex-president s aides to use the military to overturn election results. the order empowers the defense secretary to seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information and materiel records required for retention under a u.s. law that relates to preservation of election record, military. the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. that suggests that it could have been a gambit to keep trump in power until mid-february of 2021. this executive order was signed on the 16th and you don t have 60 days to overturn the election. it appears to be part of the more than 700 pages of documents that the ex-president tried very, very hard to block. the house january 6th committee from getting from the national
committee after the supreme court decided that they would. i m sure there s shocking stuff, but that one made my jaw drop that the president was using the military to seize voting machines. you know me, i tend to be cautious about evidence, and i look at this memo, it s a draft memo. we don t know who wrote it. we don t know how widely it circulated. we don t know, for instance if trump looked at that time. maybe it was enacted, and maybe he looked at it as clearly illegal and this would be unconstitutional and this use of the military to intervene is clearly not a proper exercise of dod s authority under law, and so when i say i m being cautious, i suppose that s a way of saying i have a lot of questions about this memo that demand answers. i think the january 6th