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Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has reportedly handed
over a PowerPoint presentation to the House Select Committee looking into
the Capitol riot on 6 January, as a possibly separate leaked document
revealed how the Trump administration was attempting to overturn President
Joe Biden’s election victory.

The presentation bears the title “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan”. The date on the title page is 5 January – the day before the insurrection.

It was not immediately clear whether the PowerPoint that was reportedly
leaked online in an email exchange with the ex-chief is the same one that
Mr Meadows is said to have handed to the committee.

It echoes a series of false claims based on Donald Trump’s so-called Big
Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him through fraud. The defeated president and his supporters had set out a series of allegations which
were subsequently discredited.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2020-election-powerpoint-coup-b1973826.html

In fact, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and
the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council said in a joint statement on 12 November 2020: “The November third election was the most secure in American history.”

“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes,
changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” they added.

In reaction to the leak of the PowerPoint, California Democratic
Representative Eric Swalwell tweeted: “How boldly are Republicans trying
to overthrow the Biden government? They had a PowerPoint plan. Why were
they so bold? Because they think you and DOJ don’t care and thus they
can’t be stopped. We are in a battle for democracy. It’s on life support.”

The Director for the Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia,
Larry Sabato, wrote: “I’m old-fashioned but treason seems like a serious crime. I’m not a lawyer but the PowerPoint seems like real evidence that a treasonous coup was planned.”

A former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Dan Pfeiffer, tweeted: “Hey America — the GOP put the plan to overthrow the government in a f***ing PowerPoint!”

In a tweet posted late on Thursday, Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar called
the document “a plan for a coup”.

“We need [to] get serious about what the consequences for that should be,” she said.

A spokesperson for the select committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the presentation from The Independent, but
committee vice-chair Liz Cheney wrote in a Twitter thread on Thursday that
the committee had “received exceptionally interesting and important
documents from a number of witnesses”, Mr Meadows included.

It’s not clear who wrote the document, but many of the actions recommended
in the presentation – which Mr Meadows reportedly intended to deliver to members of Congress – also match up with ideas floated by other key allies
of former President Trump, including Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, in
hopes of keeping him in the White House for a second term in defiance of
the wishes of American voters.

“The Chinese systematically gained control over our election system constituting a national security emergency,” the document states under the heading “talking points”.

“The electronic voting machines were compromised and cannot be trusted to provide an accurate vote count,” the presentation adds.

“To restore confidence, the ‘failsafe’ of counting paper ballots” should
be “used to determine who won the election for President, Senators, [and] Congressional representatives,” another talking point says.

“Hand counts reported by the media are not really hand counts and easily subverted,” the document adds.

On a slide entitled “summary of domestic voter fraud”, the presentation submitted to the 6 January committee claims that “double voters, deceased voters, out of state and out of county voters, non-citizen or felon
voters, fake ballot” or “ballot stuffing” and “other illegal ballots” were
used “in eight states”: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Another slide claims that “it’s been happening for a while” and includes a
CNN video from when the Democrats won the 2019 race for governor in
Kentucky.

A slide under the headline “irregularities in 2020 Election”, states that “Donald J Trump was winning by a significant margin across all key states
Nov 3 evening”.

“Vote counting stopped in key states where Smartmatic software and either ES&S or Dominion machines were used,” the document adds.

Voting machine manufacturers have sued pro-Trump lawyers for defamation
for their false claims that their equipment stole the election.

“When reporting resumed a massive spike occurred that favoured Joe Biden
and exceeded the counting capabilities that were on hand in many cases,”
the presentation adds.

A number of graphs then follow to show that there was a jump in the count.

One slide shows a complicated web of claims, stating that “adjudicated ballots are totally at the whim of the operator or malicious actor”.

Another slide states that “election fraud and foreign interference” includes “one tactic that is part of a larger strategic plan” and that “other tactics include riots, threats, censorship, looting, etc”.

Presenting it as a “key issue”, the authors of the presentation claim that “China has leveraged financial, non-governmental and foreign allies
including Venezuela to acquire influence and control US voting
infrastructure in at least 28 States”.

They go on to argue that this control will be “utilized as [a] part of
[an] ongoing globalist” and “socialist operation to subvert the will of United States voters and install a China ally”.

The PowerPoint also claims that the Chinese Communist Party has “financial control of Dominion voting machines”.

There’s no evidence to support claims that the 2020 election was subjected
to widespread fraud.

Over the course of several slides, the creators of the PowerPoint state
that the Chinese Communist Party also control “testing for Smartmatic software operation on Dominion voting machines” and that “they embedded anything they wanted!”

On a page of “recommendations”, the authors suggest that members of Congress be briefed on “foreign interference” and that a “national security emergency” be declared.

“Declare electronic voting in all states invalid,” the authors suggest.


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