-The Trump administration
drafted a truly shocking executive order
that would've directed the secretary of defense
to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
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Seems like almost every day we get new details
about the threat to our democracy posed
by Trump and his cronies
as they plotted to overturn the 2020 election,
so, naturally, Fox News has been laser-focused
on the issues that matter most to Americans.
-The maker of M&M's is giving the candy
a woke makeover.
-M&M's characters will be redesigned
for a more progressive world.
-The parent company of M&M's
causing quite the stir
after announcing their candy mascots will be getting
an "inclusive," woke makeover.
-The green M&M, you will notice,
is no longer wearing sexy boots.
[ Laughter ] Now, she's wearing
sensible sneakers. Why the change?
Well, according to M&M's...
Because leading women do not wear sexy boots.
Leading women wear frumpy shoes,
the frumpier the better.
That's the rule.
The brown M&M has "transitioned from high stilettos
to lower block heels."
Also less sexy.
That's progress.
M&M's will not be satisfied
until every last cartoon character
is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous,
until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink
with any one of them.
That's the goal.
When you're totally turned off,
we've achieved equity.
They've won.
[ Laughter ]
-[ As Carlson ] This used to be a country
where you could get aroused by candy,
where you, a hot-blooded youth,
could be watching TV with your girlfriend
and the green M&M would come onscreen
with her full lips and her tantalizing white boots
and you'd have to excuse yourself
to take a cold shower or go for a long bike ride.
And, the next morning, your girlfriend would say,
"Are you okay? You seem distant."
And you wouldn't have the heart to tell her
that you were distant because you no longer felt
any attraction to her dull, flesh-colored human face,
as you now realized a truth that is self-evident --
pure sexuality comes in a green, button-shaped package
with an alluring candy shell.
So, instead, you say, "Everything's fine, sweetie,"
and you'd drive to work,
but you'd stop at the convenience store --
to buy a paper, you would tell yourself.
But, once inside, you'd also grab a bag of candy
and you'd walk to the register praying that bag
wouldn't slip out of your sweat-soaked palms.
And, when you paid, hands shaking and breath quick,
the cashier would look at you and give you a knowing nod
because, as an American man, he understood what you wanted --
to [bleep] a piece of candy.
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And I'm sorry to say we don't live in that country anymore.
So that's what Fox News was focused on
as the rest of us digested the news
that Trump and his cronies
had crafted a plan to seize voting machines,
a plan that was, apparently, so advanced,
they'd written up a draft executive order
that involved the military.
-The January 6th Committee now has access
to a trove of Donald Trump's White House records.
Among them, according to Politico,
a draft executive order
to seize voting machines and keep him in office.
-Do you have proof that there was someone
inside the United States military,
working on this premise
of actually seizing voting machines?
-Well, we have information that,
between the Department of Justice,
a plan was put forth
to potentially seize voting machines in the country
and utilize Department of Defense assets
to make that happen.
-But I'm not going to melt in your hand.
[ Laughter ] I'm going to melt in your mouth.
[ Laughter ]
-Do you, uh, do you promise?
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[ Laughter ]
You guys got to give me a heads-up
when the clips are about to end. Jesus.
[ Laughter ] Now, where were "me"? Right.
I'm not often shocked by Trump's antics anymore,
but I have to say this strikes me as a pretty big deal.
It's one thing, to have a meeting
with a bunch of crazy people,
like Rudy or the pillow lunatic
or that lawyer who looks like she kidnapped 101 Dalmatians,
only to find out later they were actually just
three poodles who'd been spray-painted.
[ As Sidney Powell ] What is the meaning of this?!
But it's another thing to get a bunch
of high-level government officials involved
and draft an actual plan
and sometimes I feel like we're going to be hearing
revelations like this one for the rest of our lives.
Someday, I'll be sitting in a nursing home,
looking out the window at my favorite tree,
and a nurse will come in and say, "Did you hear?
Trump was training an army of rats
to chew the wires out of voting machines."
[ Laughter ]
And, according to Politico,
whoever wrote this executive order
had access to sensitive government information
that was not publicly known.
Wow! So it could've been
a high-level government executive
or a general
or literally anybody at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump was pretty loose
[ Laughter ] with the top secret information.
I'm sure, at least once, he interrupted a wedding
just to read aloud from the X-Files.
[ As Trump ] You may kiss the bride in just a second, but, first,
I think you're going to want to hear
what went down at Roswell. [ Laughter ]
So, whoever wrote this executive order
was presumably someone who had access to government secrets,
which is pretty crazy.
This time, we just happened to get lucky,
since Trump is too dumb to get his way
and a bunch of people stopped him by threatening to quit.
But what happens next time a Republican politician wants
to use the military to stay in power?
Are we just supposed to hope they get distracted
by an M&M commercial?
"I want the military to seize voting machines
and impose martial law.
Wait a second.
Who is that angelic creature?
[ Laughter ] No, wait.
Never mind.
She's wearing flats!"
[ Laughter ]
"Back to treason."
[ Laughter ] And I would just like to point out
to all the people who thought calling Trump's plan
an attempted coup was hysterical,
this latest executive order is
just more proof
that the threat was very real.
Sure, the various schemes were easy to dismiss at the time
because the people advocating for them were known weirdos,
but, it turns out, Trump was actually listening to them.
-One of the president's visitors today,
Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow,
was seen over here at the White House,
outside the West Wing.
A White House official did tell me, Wolf,
that it is believed that the president and Lindell met.
-A Washington Post photographer got a close-up
of the notes that he was carrying with him and, Jake,
when you zoom in on them, you can see
that he is talking about the election.
Things like martial law are mentioned,
the words "taken immediately to save the Constitution."
-The guy from MyPillow is carrying documents
and talking to President Trump,
presumably, about declaring martial law.
-And it's easy to laugh it off and say,
"He was never going to listen to the MyPillow guy,"
but he invited him over --
for non-pillow reasons, it should be noted.
[ Laughter ] I mean, if I said, "I'm never going to take advice
from Mike Lindell," you'd all believe me.
But if I also said, "And I told him that much
at dinner last night," you might think, "Wait, what?"
[ Laughter ] For all we know, they took Lindell's notes
and turned them into an executive order, too,
in which case it would be the first executive order
that used a promo code.
[ As Lindell ] Enter the promo code "Sweet Dreams"
and you won't just save the Constitution.
You'll save an additional 30%.
[ Laughter ] This is yet more proof,
as we've said many times,
that you can be both incredibly dumb
and incredibly dangerous at the same time.
For example, Trump's cronies also had a plan in place,
at roughly the same time, to forge fake certificates
from Trump electors in seven states Trump lost.
And, of course -- and, I guess, thank God --
they put their dumbest henchmen in charge.
-We have breaking news on efforts
from the former president's allies
to undermine the 2020 election results.
Now, according to sources
with direct knowledge of the scheme,
Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani,
oversaw efforts to put forward
illegitimate electors from seven states
that the former president actually lost.
-It was basically Rudy Giuliani
and all these other misfits leading the charge of this plot,
intricately involved in these efforts
in December of 2020 to put forward fake electors
from seven states that Trump lost.
That was a major part of this overall plan by Team Trump
to overturn the 2020 election results,
back when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6.
So, the point was to have Vice President Pence
accept these fake Trump electors,
rather than the valid Biden ones.
One source said there were several calls
between Trump campaign officials and state GOP operatives
to round up fake electors on a state-by-state level.
-Rudy Giuliani rounding up electors
is like an "Ocean's Eleven" where everyone's skill was
being bat[bleep] crazy. [ Laughter ]
[ As Giuliani ] This is Nancy from Phoenix.
When it comes to being a crazy, she's got us covered.
This is Frank from Tempe.
When you need crazy, he's your guy.
[ Laughter ] Patricia's from Scottsdale.
She's like an expert safecracker,
but, instead of cracking safes,
she's being crazy. [ Laughter ]
Trump and his team tried every path
they could possibly think of
to overturn the results of the election
and they came very close to pulling it off.
These are the kinds of schemes they're cooking up
when they're not at home, late at night,
fantasizing about M&M's [ Laughter ]
while resting their heads on their...
-Pillow.
[ Laughter ] -This has been "A Closer Look."
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