Posted on 04/06/2023 6:39:54 PM PDT by bitt
Another day, another leak.
National Security officials told Special Counsel Jack Smith’s army of prosecutors that Trump was repeatedly warned he didn’t have the authority to seize voting machines, according to a leak to CNN.
Former DHS official Ken Cuccinelli testified before a grand jury earlier this year on his discussions related to the voting machines.
Cuccinelli told the grand jury that he “made clear at all times” that the DHS didn’t have the authority to seize the voting machines.
Jack Smith doesn’t have a case so he is pursuing potential ‘obstruction’ charges in the classified documents case.
Now he’s grasping at straws in his investigation into Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election.
CNN reported:
Former top national security officials have told prosecutors and testified to a federal grand jury that they repeatedly told former President Donald Trump and his allies that the government didn’t have the authority to seize voting machines after the 2020 election, CNN has learned.
Ken Cuccinelli, the former second in command at the Department of Homeland Security, was asked about discussions inside the administration around DHS seizing voting machines when he appeared before the grand jury earlier this year, according to three people familiar with the proceedings. Cuccinelli testified that he “made clear at all times” that DHS did not have the authority to take such a step, one of the sources said.
Cuccinelli’s former boss at DHS, ex-acting secretary Chad Wolf, met with Justice prosecutors and FBI officials earlier this year after receiving a grand jury subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith’s team, according to Wolf’s lawyer John Coale. Wolf told prosecutors that after the 2020 election he was asked by White House officials if DHS had legal authority to seize voting machines and each time he said no, Coale told CNN.
Trump’s former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, in a closed-door interview with federal prosecutors earlier this year, also recounted conversations about seizing voting machines after the 2020 election, including during a heated Oval Office meeting that Trump participated in, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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It’s not a crime to ask. Nothing burger.
Who cares. What a dumb complaint.
Under his emergency powers. in times of national emergency, I believe the president does.
Oh geez this shit is just getting way stupid
Soooo, just how many were seized ??
When did Trump seize voting machines? Are they what was in those boxes at Mar-a-Lago?
HeeHee, he asked us about seizing machines we told him no
so he didn’t. Honestly, you’d think he was practicing his
signature over Obama’s picture or something.
Note: Stalin reference.
That’s… not a crime…
If they had a solid, substantial case, they would not be leaking nonsense like this. The only thing they have is targeted leaks to manipulate the low information population.
Who cares what he may, or may not have asked.
Cnn and unnamed national security experts
Riiiight
So Trump, as president of the USA, had no recourse but to witness illegal counting and impossible returns spitting out of dubious, unchecked voting machines?
Hey, next time you’re playing poker with your friends just tell them you’re going to cheat right before their eyes and there’s nothing they can do about it. See how that goes over.
F’ these G’D democrats.
I remember the one where PDJT invited some A-A celebrity to the Oval Office, and a national news outlet (may have been Newsweek) published the picture under a headline claiming that — while shaking the man's hand — Trump was thinking the n-word. That was an actual story.
If President Trump were found to have stated the word ‘the’ in a sentence, they will find a DA to indict.
Now, copying thousands of FBI files in the basement, stuffing your pants and socks with classified materials, destroying devices with hammers, gladly taking $140 million from Russia, giving the Chicoms technology to launch rockets, etc etc etc...No Worries.
The demoKKKrats have no conscience, no soul. Anything is possible.
He most certainly does. He blew that, too. Surrounded by backstabbers.
Sure he can. Just declare a national emergency.
When you do that you can order the whole nation to stay indoors, airlines to cease flying, order a nationwide moratorium on evictions, ban bump stocks etc. You can send two divisions of troops into the streets in DC.
Hell, with zero UN authorization, war powers act notice, authorization for use of force, etc, Biden started a war with Russia and simply impounded all their bank deposits.
Grabbing voting machines used in a coup? Of course he can.
New crime category: Cuasing your political opponents to speculate on what you may have said ot may have been thinking.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
We have them on the dominion machines we have all the big wig dems claiming the dominions machines cant be trusted.best one of all is the camal shwoing a demo of how easy it is to hack them.Tehey are toast on some electronic voter fraud.
Problem is there are so many ways to cheat we have to catch at least the majority of them to win.
It’s all here:
https://www.westernjournal.com/flashback-democrats-said-voting-machines-can-hacked-votes-can-switched/
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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar — who was also among the slew of Democrats eager to become the party’s 2020 nominee — also joined in on the “conspiracy.”
“You could easily hack into [voting machines]. It makes it seem like all these states are doing different things, but, in fact, three companies are controlling [elections].”
The real kicker is then-Sen. Kamala Harris’ repeated appearances throughout the video.
It’s incredibly ironic considering the contention surrounding her assumed role as “second in command.”
“There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines, right? Which are vulnerable to being hacked,” Harris said in one segment.
“I actually held a demonstration for my colleagues here at the Capitol where we brought in folks who — before our eyes — hacked election machines, those that are being used in many states,” she added in a separate piece.
It’s a vastly different angle from the one we’re accustomed to now, isn’t it?
I’ll admit that perhaps we should have listened to the possibility of hacked machines after the 2016 election.
They’re shocked the White House sought a legal opinion about limits on federal government authority.
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