He is interested in the plan to confiscate voting machines and replace elected Electoral College representatives in critical states with like-minded ones.
More than 20 million people are addicted to the Jan. 6 public hearings of the commission investigating the Capitol Hill attack that ended Donald Trump’s presidency. Among them are senior Justice Department officials, who have asked the commission for evidence pointing to the former president.
As early as last April, the Justice Department demanded from the commission the transcripts of all the interviews it conducted with more than a hundred witnesses, something it refused as it was deemed too broad. Now the Attorney General’s office appears to have sharpened its focus. Committee chair Bennie Thompson said he is interested in the plan to confiscate voting machines and replace elected college representatives in critical states with others sympathetic to Trump.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the commission drafted a tweet at the White House, but never published, showing that the then president anticipated launching protesters on Capitol Hill. It was not an out-of-control demonstration, but a premeditation that he regarded as his last chance to remain in power. Kind of like pushing the nuclear button.
It was the only option left to him after a frenetic six-hour meeting in the Oval Office described by some witnesses as “the most unhinged of his entire presidency.” Screaming could be heard from outside. In it, White House attorneys tried to convince him and his followers, including attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, that there was no evidence to justify the executive order he drafted. With this, he ordered the confiscation of the election machines of the critical states that did not favor him, arguing that they had been used to commit fraud.
At the end of it, after midnight, the president reluctantly agreed to dispose of it. That morning, at 2:44 a.m., he launched a tweet calling on his followers to rally in Washington for the day Congress would confirm the election results. “Be there. Be wild« (Be there. Be wild).
For some, that order shows the president’s guilt, who can still be tried if the prosecutor’s office believes there is enough compelling evidence. In any case, it would be the only way to abort any new potential bid to run for re-election, as it would disqualify him from running for office again if found guilty. Perhaps that’s why rumors are mounting that the magnate won’t wait for November’s parliamentary elections, as is tradition, because the more sophisticated his campaign is, the more problematic it will be to interrupt it in front of his followers.
Source: La Verdad
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