The Jan. 6 committee has spoken to former AG Barr and is concerned that the military was 'part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false,' committee chairman Rep. Thompson says.
would have authorized the secretary of defense to send National Guard troops to seize voting machines around the country in the weeks following the 2020 election.
The Politico article includes a facsimile of the full order, but does not say how the news organization obtained the document or whose possession it was in. Thompson said the committee does not know if anyone within the Pentagon was working on the issue of possibly seizing voting machines. He added that the draft executive order"is reason enough to believe that it was being proposed."
"We have information that between the Department of Justice, a plan was put forward to potentially seize voting machines in the country and utilize Department of Defense assets to make that happen," he said Sunday.
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