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The panel investigating the assault on the Capitol spoke with former Attorney General Bill Barr about an order to intervene militarily in the elections

2022-01-23T22:20:36.611Z


The committee's chairman said they spoke with Barr, Trump's former attorney general, and that they have information about alleged plans to seize voting machines in 2020.


By Teaganne Finn -

NBC News

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill spoke with former Attorney General William Barr, the committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said Sunday.

In an interview on

CBS's

Face the Nation

, host Margaret Brennan asked Thompson if the panel intends to speak with Barr about an alleged draft executive order that was prepared for former President Donald Trump who appears to be among the records the committee has been trying to obtain from the National Archives.

“We have already had conversations with the former attorney general.

We've talked to people from the Department of Defense," Thompson said.

We are concerned that our Army is part of this great lie that promotes the idea that the elections were false

.

So if the military is being used to potentially take over voting machines, even if it's just an issue, the public needs to know about it.

We have never had a situation like this before,” he explained. 

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US Attorney General William Barr and US President Donald Trump attend a ceremony on November 26, 2019, in Washington. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Barr, an ardent supporter of Trump during his presidency, resigned in December 2020 amid relentless tension over Trump's false claims of voter fraud.

A draft executive order prepared for Trump and obtained by Politico on Friday

authorized the defense secretary to send National Guard troops

to seize voting machines across the country in the weeks after the 2020 election.

The order, which was never signed by Trump, also would have appointed special counsel "to

initiate all criminal and civil proceedings

as appropriate based on the evidence collected," and asks the secretary of defense to publish an assessment within 60 days of action began, which would have been long after Trump left office on January 20, 2021.

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The Politico article includes a facsimile of the full warrant, but does not say how the news organization obtained the document or in whose possession it was.

Thompson said the committee doesn't know if anyone inside the Pentagon was working on the issue of the possible seizure of the voting machines.

He added that the draft executive order "is reason enough to believe that the plan was proposed."

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“We have information that,

in the Department of Justice, a plan was presented to potentially seize voting machines

in the country and use Department of Defense assets to make that happen,” Thompson said Sunday.

Source: telemundo

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