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Jul 12 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
During the #January6thCommitteeHearings, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) detailed a Dec. 18 White House meeting in which Trump allies tried to convince him to sign an executive order to seize voting machines.

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Last month, The Times reviewed documents that appeared to be one of the earliest iterations of a draft executive order presented to the then-president in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, in an effort to take control of voting machines.

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Supporters on the fringes of former President Trump’s circle explored seeking sweeping authority after the 2020 election to enlist armed private contractors to seize and inspect voting machines and election data with the assistance of U.S. marshals.

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Using public records, months of interviews with people behind the scenes and hundreds of never-before-seen documents, The Times assembled accounts of how group of Trump supporters came together to push the false theory that the election was stolen.

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The team of cyber experts and lawyers came together in the days after the 2020 election to try to find information suggesting fraud, in an attempt to keep Trump in office despite his defeat.

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Read the latest from the #January6thCommitteeHearings at latimes.com/politics/story…

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