Donald Trump wanted to seize voting machines in states he lost to Biden

The New York Times reports former U.S. President Donald Trump directed his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states after Trump lost the 2020 election. 

The newspaper cited three anonymous sources who said Trump also explored proposals for two other government agencies — the Pentagon and the Justice Department — to seize voting machines in an effort to reverse his defeat.

The Washington Post reports some of the White House records turned over by the National Archives to congressional investigators had been ripped up by Trump and then taped back together.  Trump reportedly had a habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor — in violation of the Presidential Records Act.

CNN reports that former Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short quietly testified last week before the House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.