raffensperger, a republican and his wife. joe biden s win. weeks after the first report, the justice department announced he was launching a special task force, dedicated to threats against election workers, saying, quote a threat to any election official, worker, or volunteer is a threat to democracy. well, it is been almost six months since that task force was bounced. today, if for charges. a texas man was indicted, today, for threatening election and government officials in georgia. indictment does not name the official, we re following them as officials a, b and c. on january the 5th, last, year titled, georgia patriot this time to kill official a, the chinese agent, $10,000. i guess the $10,000 was what he was offering to pay to have that official killed. he then goes on to talk about putting bullets in three georgia officials. calling them treasonous traitors. as i said, we do not know who the election officials are that this guy threatened, as for the weird stuff
hard to hide these documents. politico obtained one of them. an unsigned draft of an executive order that directed the department of defense to seize voting machines. the order, which was never signed, is issued is dated, december 16th 2020. it would allow the defense secretary to, quote, sees collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under u.s. law that relates to the preservation of election records. the order also sites to classified documents, suggesting that the author had access to information about the government secrets. this wasn t just some kook with no connection to the trump administration. in addition to new documents like that, political reports of the january six committee is investigating efforts by state level republicans to send republicans alternative slates of 2020 presidential electors. in december of 2020, illegitimate republican electors submitted, forged documen
They are republican, it might be wise to just check how they voted. i m just saying. that does it for us tonight. rachel, you will be delighted to hear, will be back on monday. and i hope to see you on sunday night for my show. the mehdi hasan show on at weeknights on 7 pm on peacock. now jonathan kaye pac is in for lawrence tonight, good evening jonathan. good evening. i m just saying you did a great job for your debut at 9:00. it s very good jonathan. it s good to have some hypocrisy to point to on my way out. many, enjoy the rest of your friday night. thank you. tonight, the full scope of the republican efforts tonight, attempted to block the national archives from handing over. it s not clear why he fought so