trump s allies had no such evidence and of course no legal authority for the federal government to seize state voting machines. here is mr. cipollone again denouncing sydney powell s terrible idea. there was a real question in my mind and a real concern, you know particularly after the attorney general had reached the conclusion that there wasn t sufficient election fraud to chinese the outcome of the election. one other people kept suggesting that there was, the answer is what is it? at some point, you have to put up or shut up. that was my view. why was this bad for the country? how the federal government seize voting machines? it s a terrible idea. that s not how we do things in the united states no legal authority to do that. there is a way to contest elections, you know that happens all the time, but the idea that the federal government could come in and sees election machines. i don t understand why we even
i don t understand why we even have to tell you that s a bad idea, it s a terrible thing. do i need to spell this out? seizing voting machines. that was the kind of wall that trump ran into with trying to seize voting machines. you recall even before this, he told the justice department under bill barr and he should seize voting machines, a debartolo no. under this fake a draft executive order, who s gonna be the pentagon, the defense department, those galaxies devouring machines. he saw the white house counsel s reaction to that idea there. but seizing the voting machines wasn t the only big, terrible idea that draft executive order. the other one would ve had trump order sydney powell put her in power of charging people with crimes and investigating all the fraud which she attributed to dead communists and venezuela. that is something we learned today. that s something he was not only advised to do in this draft executive order, something he not only thought about, doing something
no legal authority to do that. there is a way to contest elections, you know that happens all the time, but the idea that the federal government could come in and sees election machines. i don t understand why we even have to tell you that s a bad idea, it s a terrible thing. do i need to spell this out? seizing voting machines. that was the kind of wall that trump ran into with trying to seize voting machines. you recall even before this, he told the justice department under bill barr and he should seize voting machines, a debartolo no. under this fake a draft executive order, who s gonna be the pentagon, the defense department, those galaxies devouring machines. he saw the white house counsel s reaction to that idea there. but seizing the voting machines wasn t the only big, terrible idea that draft executive
however as we have seen, trump s allies had no such evidence and of course no legal authority for the federal government to seize state voting machines. here is mr. cipollone again denouncing sydney powell s terrible idea. there was a real question in my mind and a real concern, you know particularly after the attorney general had reached the conclusion that there wasn t sufficient election fraud to chinese the outcome of the election. one other people kept suggesting that there was, the answer is what is it? at some point, you have to put up or shut up. that was my view. why was this bad for the country? how the federal government seize voting machines? it s a terrible idea. that s not how we do things in the united states
the specific plan was to name sydney powell a special counsel. the trump lawyer who had spend post election period making out lan dish claims about venezuela and chinese interference in the election among others. what pat cipollone, white house counsel, had to say about sydney powell s qualifications to take on expansive authority. i don t think sydney powell would say that i thought it was a good idea for the special counsel, i didn t think she should be appointed to anything. she told the president these steps were justified because of her evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 election, however as we have seen trump s allies had no such evidence and of course no legal authority for the federal government to seize state voting machines. mr. cipollone again denouncing sydney powell s terrible idea.