Recent news reports on the last days of former President Donald Trump's White House are increasingly disturbing and provide a frightening window into just why it is so necessary to get the full, documented details of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
We may have come closer to a coup than anyone has been willing to acknowledge so far. A New York Times story details what appears to be a somewhat elaborate and frantic plan to seize voting machines by whatever means necessary.
According to The Times, Trump, in an Oval Office meeting with his U.S. Attorney General William Barr, queried whether the Justice Department could seize voting machines in key states. Barr, who had often been blindly loyal to Trump, apparently quickly rejected the suggestion. Trump also tried to get state lawmakers in Michigan and Pennsylvania to use local law enforcement to impound voting machines, according to NYT sources. Those state lawmakers, thankfully, refused to do so.
