According to a new report from Politico based on emails obtained by the group, American
oversight via a freedom of information act, request more Donald Trump allies than we had
previously known about were trying to get the department of Homeland security to seize
the voting machines used in the 2 20 20 election to conduct a full forensic audit in order
to overturn the results of the 2020 election. One of the new people we are learning about
actually happens to be a candidate for Arizona's secretary of state, meaning that he would
be the guy that gets to oversee future elections in the state. It is a state Republican rep
present by the name of mark Finchum. Again from Arizona, he sent an email via the standard
online form with the department of Homeland security saying that we need to do this. Yeah,
we need to have you guys go out seize the voting machines and conduct this, uh, as he
called it, quote a full spectrum forensic exam of voting machines Within minutes of
him, basically just submitting the standard online form that literally I think anybody
can get on there. And do He had an email from acting director, Brandon Wales that said we
need to do a call on today. And Brandon whales of course, was the acting director of the
cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency with the department of Homeland security.
So within minutes of Mr. Benham representative Benham, sending his request via that little
online form, he gets an email back saying, oh, let's have a call all, let let's talk
about this plan of yours to steal the election for Donald Trump.
And if that were the end of the story, that would be bad enough, but no, definitely not.
The end of the story, It continues top C I S a officials reviewed fi and request, which
was sent through a standard online form six days after the oval office meeting of Trump
Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Michael Flyn, and the request made its way up the chain of command
over the following days and an employee whose name was redacted noted. The agency conducted
fact finding on the issue with Arizona, secretary of state, Katie Hobbs and the state eight
election director. So the DHS department of Homeland security, this, you know, C I S a
department Actually reached out to the state of Arizona, the secretary of state and said,
what do you have? Do you have evidence for us? Which suggests of course, that the department
of Homeland security for at least a portion of time
Was open to the idea of seizing the voting machines and overturning the results. At least
as we know of in Arizona of the 2020 election, that should terrify you that as this says,
it went up the chain of command. They went on a fact finding mission and they entertained
this idea to steal the 2020 election. And if that was all it is, that would be bad enough,
but as always, there's more, another email obtained by American oversight appears to
show another Trump ally, which the watchdog believes to be Flint. A Flyn associate Phil
Waldron directly contacted Chad mazel. DHS is acting general counsel on December 21st,
2020 to request a collaboration. WALN reportedly originated the strategy to have the defense
department seizes voting machines. And he also distributed a PowerPoint presentation,
urging Trump to declare a state of emergency.
That is by the way, according to raw there. So based on the emails reported by Politico,
this additional reporting from raw story, this went up the chain of command at the department
of Homeland security. They entertained it. They spoke with state officials and folks.
You have no idea. And I still think we as, as a public, how have no idea how close this
administration actually came to stealing that 2020 election? This is pretty damning stuff,
right? This is the kind of stuff that the DOJ really needs to have in their possession.
I mean, these emails exist. American oversight, the group that FOIA these, they were able
to get their hands on 'em. So where is the department of justice right now? That's what
I want to know. I'm tired of the, the, you know, waiting and CEO. No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, stop it. It's time. It's time for a special prosecutor. It's time to
haul these people in, oh, under subpoena. Don't even give them the option to do it.
Voluntarily, haul them in for depositions in front of a grand jury testimony, whatever
it is, let's get to the bottom of this because this is deeper than we thought this is bigger
than we thought. And they came closer than we could've imagined to being success successful
in their efforts to steal that election.