The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.” Both are reported here in detail for the first time.
Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”
POLITICO has reviewed both documents. The text of the draft executive order is published here for the first time.
The executive order — which also would have appointed a special counsel to probe the 2020 election — was never issued, and the remarks were never delivered. Together, the two documents point to the wildly divergent perspectives of White House advisers and allies during Trump’s frenetic final weeks in office.
It’s not clear who wrote either document. But the draft executive order is dated Dec. 16, 2020, and is consistent with proposals that lawyer Sidney Powell made to the then-president. On Dec. 18, 2020, Powell, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump administration lawyer Emily Newman, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne met with Trump in the Oval Office.
In that meeting, Powell urged Trump to seize voting machines and to appointher as a special counsel to investigate the election, according to Axios.
……..
- Discussion
-
The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled "Remarks on National Healing." Both are reported here in detail for the first time. https://t.co/VK83h1eASz
— POLITICO (@politico) January 21, 2022
🚨🚨🚨
"That the draft executive order’s author knew about Memorandum 21 suggests they had access to sensitive government secrets…"
So the order was not the work of Trump hangers-on. It was written by or with the help of USG officials with clearances.https://t.co/OxoCBxTwke
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 21, 2022
Does anyone know why Donny Boy didn’t sign the order? Was he talked out of it?
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.