The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has obtained fresh evidence that sheds new light on then-president Donald Trump’s attempted coup that day.
On Monday, CNN reported that advisers to former President Donald Trump drafted two versions of executive orders to seize voting machines in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
The orders tasked the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to seize machines in states that Trump lost as part of a broader effort to undermine the presidential election results. At least one of the orders has been handed over by the National Archives to the House investigators.
While the orders were never issued, they flesh out “the depravity of the plotting in the final days of Trump’s White House that had more in common with a developing world tyrant’s desperate bid to cling to power than the conduct expected of a US President,” noted CNN.
The committee is also reviewing some Trump White House documents that had to be taped back together because they had been ripped up, the agency said, Daily Boulder reported Monday.
Separately, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short quietly testified before the committee in a lengthy session last week and supplied a number of documents that were subpoenaed by the committee.
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