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Donald Trump<\/a> has said he regrets not getting the US national guard to seize voting machines after his 2020 election defeat ended his first presidency, as he continues to falsely claim that he won the race. But he has also questioned whether national guard troops would be \u201csophisticated enough\u201d to pull something like that off.<\/p>\n Trump made those remarks in an interview <\/a>with the New York Times published on Sunday. The outlet had questioned him about a plan reportedly floated in late 2020, after he lost that year\u2019s presidential election to Joe Biden, to seize voting machines in several key swing states in an effort to search for evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n The Times reported<\/a> that the idea was discussed during a December 2020 meeting in the Oval Office, where several of Trump\u2019s advisers, including lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, reportedly urged him<\/a> to use the military or federal authorities to seize Dominion voting machines in states where Trump baselessly claimed that voter fraud had occurred, with the aim of conducting a recount.<\/p>\n According to reports published in 2022,<\/a> the advisers even presented Trump with draft executive orders<\/a> outlining how such a seizure could be carried out. One draft order, reported by Politico<\/a>, reportedly referenced conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia and Michigan and would have ordered the defense secretary to \u201cseize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under\u201d a US election records law.<\/p>\n Trump reportedly explored <\/a>the idea. But the Times reported that the proposal was met with resistance from several of the Trump administration\u2019s senior officials, including the then attorney general, William Barr, who reportedly \u201cimmediately shot down<\/a>\u201d the suggestion.<\/p>\n Ultimately, Trump did not move forward with the proposal. And in Sunday\u2019s interview, Times reporters revisited the idea with the president.<\/p>\n \u201cYou once threatened, I think, during the 2020 election, to use the national guard to seize election boxes,\u201d the reporter said<\/a>. \u201cYou may remember that. You didn\u2019t, in the end, do it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I should have,\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n \u201cWould that have been \u2013 would that be an option?\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n Referring to the national guard, Trump replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know that they are sophisticated enough. You know, they\u2019re good warriors. I\u2019m not sure that they\u2019re sophisticated enough in the ways of crooked Democrats and the way they cheat, to figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n During the interview, Trump also repeated his unfounded claims that the 2020 election results were fraudulent and that he won. \u201cI won three times,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n Trump has not questioned the integrity of the 2024 election, which he won against Vice-President Kamala Harris to retake the White House. But Trump continues to falsely assert that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Biden and at his expense.<\/p>\n Election integrity experts have said that the 2020 presidential race was the most secure<\/a> to date. And dozens of legal challenges brought by Trump\u2019s camp that sought to challenge the 2020 election failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Trump #regrets #seizing #voting #machines #election #loss #Donald #Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump has said he regre… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}