Donald Trump told Rudy Giuliani to call the Department of Homeland Security to see if it could take control of voting machines: NYT report
Sarah Al-Arshani
Mon, January 31, 2022, 11:57 PM
Trump played a role in proposals to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.
He asked Giuliani to call the DHS about confiscating voting machines, The New York Times reported.
Trump weighed the prospect of using the military or the Justice Department to obtain the machines.
Former President Donald Trump asked Rudy Giuliani, his attorney, to call the Department of Homeland Security to see whether it could legally take control of voting machines in key states in December 2020, six weeks after the presidential election, The New York Times reported Monday.
Giuliani called Kenneth Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, who told him he did not have the authority to do so, The Times reported.
Insider previously reported people in Trump's orbit had written a draft executive order that was dated to December 2020 that mentioned using the Pentagon to seize machines.
That draft order was recently obtained by the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
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