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Jan. 6 Committee Examines PowerPoint Document Sent to Meadows

Mark Meadows’s lawyer said the former White House chief of staff did not act on the document, which recommended that President Donald J. Trump declare a national emergency to keep himself in power.

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By Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is scrutinizing a 38-page PowerPoint document filled with extreme plans to overturn the 2020 election that Mark Meadows, the last chief of staff to President Donald J. Trump, has turned over to the panel.

The document recommended that Mr. Trump declare a national emergency to delay the certification of the election results and included a claim that China and Venezuela had obtained control over the voting infrastructure in a majority of states.

A lawyer for Mr. Meadows, George J. Terwilliger III, said on Friday that Mr. Meadows provided the document to the committee because he merely received it by email in his inbox and did nothing with it.

“We produced the document because it wasn’t privileged,” Mr. Terwilliger said.

Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel and an influential voice in the movement to challenge the election, said on Friday from a bar he owns outside Austin, Texas, that he had circulated the document — titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN” — among Mr. Trump’s allies and on Capitol Hill before the attack. Mr. Waldron said that he did not personally send the document to Mr. Meadows, but that it was possible someone on his team had passed it along to the former chief of staff.

It is unclear who prepared the PowerPoint, but it is similar to a 36-page document available online, and it appears to be based on the theories of Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, a Texas entrepreneur and self-described inventor who has appeared with Mr. Waldron on podcasts discussing election fraud.

Mr. Waldron said he was not surprised that Mr. Meadows had received a version of the document, which exists in varied forms on internet sites.

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Jan. 6 committee subpoenas contributor to election-denying PowerPoint

The House committee investigating the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 announced Thursday that it had subpoenaed a retired Army colonel who contributed to a PowerPoint presentation about how to overturn the 2020 election results that was presented to Republican lawmakers ahead of the riot.

"The document he reportedly provided to Administration officials and Members of Congress is an alarming blueprint for overturning a nationwide election," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee's chairman, said in a statement about the subpoena for the man, Phil Waldron .

The PowerPoint presentation was among the documents handed over to the committee by Mark Meadows, who was former President Donald Trump's chief of staff at the time of the attack on the Capitol.

The presentation included baseless assertions that China and Venezuela took control of the U.S. electoral system. Other slides suggested a plan for the Trump administration to "declare electronic voting in all states invalid," call a national emergency and seize ballots.

In a letter demanding documents and testimony, Thompson told Waldron that the committee's investigation and public reporting "have revealed credible evidence that you have information concerning attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of the 2020 election results."

Waldron has told The Washington Post that he was part of a team that briefed lawmakers about the presentation and that he had contributed to the briefing. He also told the newspaper that he had visited the White House several times after the election and had met with Meadows "maybe eight to 10 times" in the run-up to Jan. 6.

Waldron could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

The PowerPoint presentation was one of the documents the committee planned to question Meadows about this month, but he refused to show up for his scheduled deposition. The House voted Tuesday to refer Meadows to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress for defying the panel's subpoena.

Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.

Trump’s White House Emailed About a PowerPoint on How to End American Democracy

By Ryan Bort

The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows , including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump could declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election.

The revelation is the latest indication that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.

The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.

In the 13 months since the election, no evidence has emerged that foreign entities influenced the election, or that any significant fraud occurred.

Latest: Trump White House chief Mark Meadows turned over to Jan. 6 committee an email that referred to a PowerPoint calling for Trump to declare a NatSec emergency and have VP Pence delay Biden’s certification pic.twitter.com/D2wgLS6AoD — Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) December 9, 2021

George Terwilliger, an attorney for Meadows, said on Friday that Meadows provided the committee with PowerPoint because he simply received it in an email. “We produced the document because it wasn’t privileged,” he said, according to The New York Times .

The committee noted in a letter on Wednesday that Meadows had provided text messages in which he discussed a “highly controversial” plan to overturn the election results by appointing alternate electors in certain states. “I love it,” Meadows replied to the idea, which was sent to him by a lawmaker. Meadows discussed the same plan, which was described as a “direct and collateral attack,” in a separate email. The letter referenced the PowerPoint presentation, as well, but did not provide details of its contents.

The letter sent on Wednesday, which was addressed to Meadows’ attorney, explained that the committee had “no choice” but to move to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with his subpoena. How, if Meadows is refusing to comply, did the committee get ahold of all of these damning documents from the former chief of staff? Meadows last week reached an agreement to cooperate, turned over the material, and then earlier this week changed his mind and is now stonewalling the committee. He’s now suing the committee in an attempt to block his subpoena.

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It’s unclear what exactly inspired the reversal. Meadows says the committee was not respecting his claims of executive privilege, to which Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said the committee “tried repeatedly to identify with specificity the areas of inquiry” were subject to privilege, but Meadows wouldn’t cooperate. It’s also possible that Meadows decided to buck the committee after reports began to circulate that Trump was pissed at him for revealing a bunch of damning information about how the White House covered up details of Trump’s bout with Covid last year. It’s also possible that Meadows just isn’t very bright.

Regardless, the committee is now in possession of a trove of his documents indicating the extent of Trumpworld’s very real efforts to overturn the election results, efforts that culminated in a throng of supporters storming the Capitol in a violent attack that resulted in five deaths and dozens of injured police officers.

The material turned over by Meadows may be the tip of the iceberg. Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said last week that the committee is preparing to hold “several weeks” worth of public hearings that will tell the story of the riot at the Capitol in “vivid color.” She added on Thursday that the committee has met with nearly 300 witnesses, that it is conducting multiple depositions and interviews every week, and that it expects a ruling imminently on whether it can obtain Trump’s White House documents. “The investigation is firing on all cylinders,” she wrote.

Hours after Cheney teased an upcoming ruling on Trump’s executive privilege claim, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down .

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January 6 PowerPoint Backer Says He Repeatedly Visited White House, Spoke With Meadows

Philip Waldron, a retired U.S. Army colonel who circulated a PowerPoint presentation proposing ways Donald Trump could hold onto power after losing the 2020 presidential election, has told the Washington Post that he visited the White House multiple times after the election; spoke with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as many as ten times; and briefed several members of Congress about the presentation the day before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in a violent attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory. As the Post notes, Waldron’s account suggests “that Meadows, who also pressed senior Justice Department leaders to investigate baseless  conspiracy theories  about election fraud, was more directly in contact with proponents of such theories than was previously known.”

The 38-page PowerPoint, titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” made many false claims about voter fraud and election irregularities. It also featured recommendations on how to change the election outcome, by having Vice-President Mike Pence reject or replace electors, or by declaring a national security emergency and having National Guard troops and U.S. Marshals “secure” and count paper ballots from certain states. The PowerPoint apparently makes similar claims to a 36-page presentation which surfaced publicly last week. A version of the presentation, which Meadows received in an email on January 5, was part of a tranche of documents turned over by Meadows to the January 6 House Select Committee before he declared last week that he would no longer be complying with their investigation.

The 57-year-old Waldron, who specialized in psychological operations during his military career and later became a cybersecurity consultant, was one of a cast of conspiracy-minded characters in Trump’s orbit, including Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John C. Eastman, who attempted to come up with ways Trump could remain in power. Waldron told the Post that Meadows asked him in late December 2020 whether the election had been hacked — which could have given credence to Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and provide pretext for overturning the election results. Waldron said he repeatedly visited the White House and spoke to Meadows “maybe eight to ten times,” often communicating through Giuliani.

“The presentation was that there was significant foreign interference in the election, here’s the proof,” Waldron told the Post . “These are constitutional, legal, feasible, acceptable and suitable courses of action,” he claimed.

Waldron also told the Post he attended a November 25 meeting with Trump and several legislators from Pennsylvania, once briefed Senator Lindsey Graham in the White House at Meadows’s request, and was among a small group of people who briefed several members of Congress on January 5 about the presentation, though he refused to identify who those lawmakers were.

The Post notes that “it is not clear how widely the PowerPoint was circulated or how seriously the ideas in it were considered.” The publication reports that one of Meadows’s lawyers insisted there is no indication the former chief of staff acted on the presentation after he received it by email, and that “a person familiar with Meadows’s thinking stressed that Meadows had ‘little or nothing to do’ with Waldron and did not endorse the document.”

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Jan. 6 Coup Plot PowerPoint in Hand, House to Vote on Criminal Charges for Mark Meadows

"we can speed up the hearings, put the biggest story on the front page, and arrest the coup plotters, or we can let the fire burn. the choice is ours.".

The U.S. House is expected to vote Tuesday to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena, defiance that came after the Trump loyalist had already handed over more than 9,000 documents to the panel investigating the January 6 insurrection.

"We can and must hold every person involved in the deadly January 6th insurrection accountable--period."

Among the documents Meadows gave the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack was a PowerPoint presentation that outlined possible steps toward overturning the 2020 presidential election and allowing twice-impeached former President Donald Trump to maintain his grip on power.

Meadows' attorney insists that the former chief of staff received the document via email and did nothing with it.

The PowerPoint included a slide suggesting Trump could "declare [a] national security emergency" and deem "electronic voting in all states invalid"--a nod to the right-wing conspiracy theory that voting systems were compromised by foreign powers.

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch argued that while the PowerPoint appears amateurish, "the quickening flow of leaks and new discoveries from the House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is no laughing matter."

"The only thing wrong with describing the PowerPoint for an all-American coup as a 'hair-on-fire moment' is that the term is way too small to describe the existential threat that's smoldering, unextinguished, in the rotting foundation of the United States and its increasingly haywire experiment," Bunch wrote. "It's been said before, but whatever you would have done in 1933 Germany or 1963 Alabama is what you are doing in 2021 America."

"We can speed up the hearings, put the biggest story on the front page, and arrest the coup plotters, or we can let the fire burn," he added. "The choice is ours."

\u201cLatest: Trump White House chief Mark Meadows turned over to Jan. 6 committee an email that referred to a PowerPoint calling for Trump to declare a NatSec emergency and have VP Pence delay Biden\u2019s certification\u201d — Hugo Lowell (@Hugo Lowell) 1639069420

The House select committee voted unanimously Monday night to recommend criminal contempt charges for Meadows, a move that came after the panel unveiled text messages that showed lawmakers, aides, Fox News hosts who amplified election lies , and even Trump's eldest son Don Jr. pleading with Meadows to get the then-president to condemn the insurrection as his far-right supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building.

"Hey Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home... this is hurting all of us... he is destroying his legacy," Fox 's Laura Ingraham wrote in a text to Meadows on January 6, according to the documents.

The House panel also released text messages Meadows received from unidentified lawmakers offering their own ideas for how the Trump administration could prevent the certification of President Joe Biden's victory, which the House and Senate ultimately made official in the early hours of January 7.

"On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all," wrote one unnamed lawmaker.

Dozens of Republicans in the House and Senate voted to overturn the results of the presidential election following the assault on the Capitol, and the GOP is working at the state level nationwide to suppress the vote and ensure that their anti-democratic efforts to seize power are successful the next time around.

\u201cWe can and must hold every person involved in the deadly January 6th insurrection accountable \u2013 period.\nhttps://t.co/NgXS0E7F3s\u201d — Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@Rep. Pramila Jayapal) 1639495800

Award-winning investigative journalist Barton Gellman noted in a recently published feature story for The Atlantic that "for more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party's national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft."

"Elected officials in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states have studied Donald Trump's crusade to overturn the 2020 election," Gellman wrote. "They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time. Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard, which results to certify and which to reject."

"They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November, aiming to replace them with exponents of the Big Lie," he continued. "They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters."

Responding to Gellman's piece--which was headlined "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun"--consumer advocate Ralph Nader   warned Monday that "the ultimate lethal blow to democratic elections, should the GOP lose, is simply to have the partisan GOP majority legislators benefiting from demonically-drawn gerrymandered electoral districts, declare by fiat the elections a fraud, and replace the Democratic Party's voter-chosen electors with GOP chosen electors in the legislature."

"Tragically," Nader added, "a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices--three selected by Trump--has no problem with his usurpation of the American Republic. All this and more micro-repression is broadcast by zillions of ugly, vicious, and anonymous rants over the Internet enabled by the profiteering social media corporations like Facebook."

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Jan. 6 PowerPoint: What we know and what we don't about pro-Trump election plot

A conspiratorial PowerPoint presentation that offered suggestions for how the Trump administration could move to overturn the 2020 election results is getting new attention after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows submitted similar slides to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

The exact origins of the 36-page PowerPoint document are unknown. It appears to have first surfaced online in full in early January. Ahead of Jan. 6 — when a mob of pro-Trump supporters tried to disrupt the electoral vote count formalizing Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election before a joint session of Congress — the presentation was one of a handful of documents that outlined a rationale for overturning the election or disregarding the results that were written and circulated by allies of President Donald Trump or by people sympathetic to his baseless claims of fraud.

The PowerPoint presentation and its allegations and assertions were promoted by ardent supporters of Trump who have repeatedly spread falsehoods about the election.

Here's what we know — and what we don't know — about the presentation, its contributors and who may have seen it.

There are two PowerPoints?

Most likely yes, but the material appears similar.

In a letter to Meadows on Wednesday, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, referred to an email on Jan. 5 about a 38-page PowerPoint briefing titled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for JAN 6."

That PowerPoint document is two pages longer than the 36-page version circulating online. A committee aide said that the 38-page version isn't page for page what the committee received and that the presentation is unlikely to be a major focus for the committee. Still, the titles of the presentations are the same.

Meadows' lawyer, George J. Terwilliger III, told The New York Times and The Washington Post that Meadows submitted the document to the committee because "it was not privileged." He said Meadows had received the document in an email and did nothing with it. Terwilliger didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

It's not yet clear who sent the email to Meadows.

Meadows initially cooperated with the committee but said later that he would no longer engage with it. The House is expected to vote as soon as Tuesday on whether to ask the Justice Department to prosecute Meadows over his refusal to answer questions about the attack.

What's in the PowerPoint?

The presentation includes baseless assertions that China and Venezuela took control of the U.S. electoral system and that there was widespread voter fraud in eight states.

It calls for the Trump administration to "declare electronic voting in all states invalid," as well as to declare a national emergency and seize ballots.

More relevant to Jan. 6 — the date the Constitution sets out for the official counting of Electoral College votes, a step that affirms a president-elect's victory — the document called for then-Vice President Mike Pence to seat alternate electors from swing states Trump lost, reject electors from those states or delay the formal count.

Constitutional scholars have said there was no legal basis for Pence to intervene, while a number of ballot recounts and the courts have repeatedly affirmed Biden's win last fall and haven't turned up any evidence of widespread fraud.

Who is behind the 36-page presentation?

Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who said he visited the White House multiple times after the election, has acknowledged having played a role as one of the document's contributors. He told The Washington Post that he was part of a team that briefed lawmakers about the presentation, adding that he focused on claims of foreign vote manipulation.

Waldron was featured in a film by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a lead proponent and financial backer of false election fraud claims.

Waldron said by email that he "did multiple hours of interviews" about the presentation "and released the slides publicly" in January. He didn't respond to a follow-up asking him where the interviews and the release took place. (Fox News personality Lara Logan tweeted a link to the slide deck on Jan. 5.)

Jovan H. Pulitzer, who has an outsize presence in the election denial community, was linked to the document, too — but he said in an email that he didn't contribute to it. The presentation floated retired astronaut Sidney Gutierrez as someone to lead a national investigation into election fraud. Gutierrez couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Some paragraphs in the presentation were part of a Nov. 24, 2020, blog post by a leading election denier, Patrick Byrne, the founder and former CEO of Overstock.com.

Who saw the presentation?

It's not yet clear, although those involved in the efforts to circulate the scheme say members of Congress were briefed, as well as Trump administration officials and other allies.

Waldron told The Times that members of his team — whom he didn't identify — spoke to a group of senators about the allegations in the PowerPoint document on Jan. 4. Waldron told The Post that he once briefed Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at the White House.

Asked about that, Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Graham, said in an email, "Graham voted to certify the election."

Waldron also told The Post that he briefed Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and his staff ahead of a Dec. 16 hearing the Senate Homeland Security Committee was holding about election fraud. At the time, Republicans controlled the Senate and Johnson chaired the committee.

In a statement obtained by NBC News, Johnson said: "The slides had not been seen by my staff prior to the Washington Post forwarding" it as part of its recent reporting.

"My staff took meetings from many who could offer their expertise on election security and to hear from those who had concerns about irregularities ahead of my December 16, 2020 hearing," he said.

Waldron told The Post that he personally briefed some House members about it on Jan. 5.

Meanwhile, Waldron told The Times and The Post that he communicated to Meadows through former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was Trump's personal lawyer. Giuliani couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Waldron also told The Post that he attended an Oval Office meeting with Trump and Pennsylvania lawmakers on Nov. 25, 2020. It's not clear whether the meeting involved any version of the PowerPoint briefing or its contents.

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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.

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.

On a slide entitled “perpetrators”, the presentation claims that “local zealots” used “illegal ballot harvesting, illegal voter roles, counterfeit mail-in and absentee ballots, and illegal adjudication changes”.

The voting machines shifted “votes from one candidate to another either through an algorithm or adjudications”, the creators claim, adding that “foreign actors” affected the vote “either through adjudications or outright database overwrites”. These events “demonstrably occurred, but not necessarily in a coordinated fashion,” the presentation says.

“Next step – count the paper ballots,” the next slide states. “Regardless of the cheating and stuffing of the ballot box, by eliminating the counterfeit mail-in and absentee ballots -> Trump almost certainly wins,” the presentation says, adding that lower-level races would “turn to Republican”.

By removing what they call “counterfeit” votes and counting the ballots again “by hand”, they would “quickly and easily find out who the elected leaders REALLY ARE and restore confidence in the outcome!” the PowerPoint says.

So-called “foreign actors” had to “shift votes in traditionally Republican strongholds in order to deliver a Biden win because they could jam no more into the major cities (fraud votes)”, the presentation says.

The PowerPoint then moves on to local examples of what the authors say is evidence of fraud and claim that if you count all paper ballots, then-President Donald Trump would “overwhelmingly” win.

On a slide with the heading “restoring confidence in the 2020 General Election”, the authors argue that “a full check to weed out counterfeit paper ballots and then a count of the remaining legal ones across the nation must be done for all races in all states” to “accurately determine who the people of America actually elected as our leaders”.

The presentation states that the recount “must be done in full public view (via web broadcast) where each person has the chance to do the count themselves if they so desire. No more hiding behind barriers, distances, secrecy, and gag orders”.

“Every legal paper ballot will have a camera pointed at it and will be captured for a few seconds. It will be recorded and be broadcast in real-time on the Internet,” the presentation says.

The “top-level plan” to count the votes includes the use of National Guard troops and the US Marshals .

“A trusted lead counter will be appointed with authority from the POTUS to direct the actions of select federalized National Guard units and support from DOJ, DHS and other US government agencies as needed to complete a recount of the legal paper ballots for the federal elections in all 50 states,” the authors suggest.

“US Marshals will immediately secure all ballots and provide a protective perimeter around the locations in all 50 states,” they add.

The National Guard would be “responsible for counting each legitimate paper ballot” and “as the counting occurs each ballot will be imaged and the images placed on the Internet so any US citizen can view them and count the ballots themselves. The process will be completely transparent”, the presentation goes on to state.

The creators of the presentation say that the “legality of each ballot will be determined based on the Constitution and therefore the laws enacted by the state legislatures and in effect at [the] time of the election”. Exceptions would require Supreme Court approval, the PowerPoint says.

“Ballots that are suspect will be sequestered, separately secured, and turned over to the FBI to verify the forensic analysis,” the authors suggest.

The presentation says that examples of suspected ballots are votes that are made “from a different material than real ballots, are of a different colour, different format, photocopies, marked by the same commercial ink that printed them, filled out by a machine, have no creases in the case of mail-in ballots, etc”.

“If the sequestrated ballots are required to determine the winner, then they will be resolved based on the law and precedent in past elections,” the authors state. “The entire challenge process must be on video and broadcast.”

The last page of the presentation from 5 January bears the headline “options for Jan 6” – the day of the insurrection.

Then-Vice President Mike Pence “seats Republican electors over the objections of Democrats in states where fraud occurred,” the presentation states. “VP Pence rejects the electors from states where fraud occurred causing the election to be decided by remaining electoral votes,” and “VP Pence delays the decision in order to allow for a vetting and subsequent counting of the all the legal paper ballots”.

The Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council added in their joint statement on 12 November 2020: “While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too. When you have questions, turn to elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections.”

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Ex-Officer Who Circulated Jan. 6 PowerPoint Says He Met With Meadows Several Times

Philip Waldron, the retired U.S. Army colonel who was an ardent supporter of challenging the 2020 election results, says he was welcomed at the White House numerous times after the November vote. And Waldron, who circulated the PowerPoint presentation that detailed ways to overturn the election, didn’t meet with low-level staffers. Waldron told the Washington Post he spoke with Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, “maybe eight to 10 times.” And Meadows wasn’t alone. Waldron also spoke to several members of Congress before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Waldron, who was working with then-President Donald Trump’s outside lawyers on ways to challenge the election, focused his efforts on the allegations that there was foreign interference in the vote. The PowerPoint specifically said Trump could declare a national emergency to delay the certification of the election results. Although Meadows received the presentation titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference, & Options for 6 JAN” on Jan. 5, Waldron insists he wasn’t the one who sent it to him. George J. Terwilliger III, a lawyer for Meadows, says the former chief of staff only received the PowerPoint presentation by email but didn’t do anything with the document. Meadows handed over the presentation to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot “because it wasn’t privileged,” Terwilliger said.

It remains unclear just how seriously Trump officials took the ideas that were outlined in the PowerPoint. But the recent revelations suggest Meadows was in far closer contact with those who were proposing extreme measures to keep Trump in power than was previously known. And while he was talking to the conspiracy theorists, he was also calling on senior Justice Department officials to investigate wild claims of election fraud. Waldron claims Meadows offered to support him in any way possible to prove the claims that there had been foreign interference in the election.

Even if he wasn’t the one who sent it, Waldron said he wasn’t surprised Meadows had received a copy of the presentation. “He would have gotten a copy for situational awareness for what was being briefed on the Hill at the time,” Waldron told the New York Times . Waldron says members of his team spoke to senators about the claims contained in the presentation and the next day he personally briefed a small group of House lawmakers.

A PowerPoint presentation circulating online — outlining a plan to overturn the 2020 election — is similar to the one Mark Meadows gave to the Jan. 6 panel, report says

• A 36-page PowerPoint presentation on how to overturn the 2020 election was being shared on Twitter Thursday.
• The New York Times confirmed Friday it's similar to the one Mark Meadows gave the January 6 committee.
• A lawyer for Meadows said he was emailed the document on January 5 and did nothing with it.

A PowerPoint circulating online this week — that detailed extreme plans to overturn the 2020 election — is similar to the one former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, The New York Times confirmed Friday.

Meadows, who served in former President Donald Trump's White House, previously sent documents to the committee before announcing earlier this week that he was no longer cooperating with the investigation, putting himself at risk of being held in contempt of Congress .

Parts of a 36-page version of the document, titled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN," were shared on Twitter Thursday . The PowerPoint included many of the false claims about voter fraud and election irregularities that were being shared by former President Donald Trump and his allies after Joe Biden's victory.

The presentation also featured recommendations on how to change the election outcome, including declaring a national security emergency, throwing out all electronic voting, and having Vice President Mike Pence personally select Republican electors.

The New York Times confirmed on Friday the presentation being shared online was similar to the presentation Meadows gave to the January 6 committee. However, the version Meadows provided was 38 pages, and it's unclear how exactly the two differed.

Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who was said to be the one circulating the presentation, did not respond when Insider reached out on Thursday.

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On Friday, he told The Times that he sent the presentation to Trump allies before the January 6 insurrection and that one of his associates may have sent it to Meadows. It was not clear who created the document.

A lawyer for Meadows, George J. Terwilliger III, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. He told The Times that the former chief of staff was emailed the presentation on January 5 and did not do anything with it, adding that they gave it to the January 6 committee simply because it wasn't privileged.

Despite making the rounds on Twitter this week, the document (or apparent versions of the presentation) have been shared publicly online before, including by Fox News's Lara Logan on January 5 and other proponents of challenges to the 2020 election.

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Circulator Of Powerpoint To Overturn Election Results Claims He Repeatedly Met With Meadows

A retired Army colonel who circulated a PowerPoint document detailing a proposal to overturn the 2020 election results claimed to have visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election and met with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to the Washington Post .

Phil Waldron, a retired U.S. Army colonel, told the Post that he met with Meadows “maybe eight to 10 times” and briefed several members of Congress the day before the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Waldron reportedly claimed that he was working with former President Trump’s outside lawyers and was part of a group that briefed lawmakers on a PowerPoint presentation detailing “Options for 6 JAN.”

According to the Post, Waldron said that he contributed claims of foreign interference in the vote to the presentation, and brought up those same claims during his discussions with the White House.

A version of the PowerPoint reportedly made its way to Meadows on Jan. 5 — which is information that surfaced publicly last week when Jan. 6 committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter to Meadows’ lawyer, George J. Terwilliger III, saying that Meadows had turned over an email regarding a 38-page PowerPoint presentation “that was to be provided ‘on the hill’,” titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN.”

“The presentation was that there was significant foreign interference in the election, here’s the proof,” Waldron told the Post. “These are constitutional, legal, feasible, acceptable and suitable courses of action.”

Additionally, the PowerPoint reportedly included proposals for Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 to reject electors from “states where fraud occurred” or replace them with Republican electors. It also included a third proposal seeking a delay in the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory, with the deployment of U.S. marshals and National Guard troops to help “secure” and count paper ballots in key states.

The Post noted that it is unclear how widely the PowerPoint was circulated or the extent to which the proposals in it were considered.

On Friday, Terwilliger denied to the Post that the former Trump White House official did anything with the document after receiving it by email.

“We produced it [to the committee] because it was not privileged,” Terwilliger told the Post.

According to the Post, Waldron denied that he was the person who sent the PowerPoint to Meadows. Waldron reportedly claimed that a meeting he and others had with Meadows in the days around Christmas last year involved questions about how to determine whether the election had been hacked. Waldron told the Post that Meadows asked, “What do you need? What would help?” Waldron said his team produced a list for Meadows that contained information on IP addresses, servers and other data that he believed needed to be investigated “using the powers of the world’s greatest national security intelligence apparatus.”

Waldron recalled Meadows indicating that he would pass the list on to then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, but was unsure whether Meadows followed through on delivering it, according to the Post. A spokesman for Ratcliff denied receiving the document to the Post.

According to the Post, Waldron said that he and Meadows “weren’t pen pals” and that their communication was often through Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who would sometimes ask Walldron to “explain this to Mark” over the phone.

Waldron also reportedly attended attended a Nov. 25 meeting with Trump and several Pennsylvania legislators in the Oval Office and claimed to have briefed Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at the White House in Meadows’ office with Giuliani in attendance.

The Post’s report on the PowerPoint presentation that Waldron circulated comes days after Thompson detailed the materials that Meadows has offered up thus far to the Jan. 6 committee during his short-lived stint of engaging with the panel in a letter to Terwilliger. According to Thompson, Meadows produced communications documenting an early White House effort to push for the appointment of “alternate slates of electors” on the day networks called Biden’s presidential victory. Thompson also said that Meadows provided the committee with an email from Jan. 5 regarding a 38-page PowerPoint briefing titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN” that was to be provided “on the hill” and another email on Jan. 5 about having the National Guard on standby during the joint session of Congress certifying Biden’s electoral victory.

In his letter to Terwilliger last week, Thompson also informed him that the committee has been “left with no choice” but to advance contempt proceedings against his client, after the panel  warned  that the former Trump official would be referred for contempt if he failed to show up for his deposition. Meadows swiftly moved to sue the Jan. 6 committee, its members, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as part of his latest attempt to block the enforcement of a committee subpoena for his insurrection-related records and testimony.

CNN also reported last week that Meadows produced text messages and emails that show he was “exchanging with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway” to the committee prior to going back to stonewalling the panel. Meadows reportedly handed over messages on his personal cell phone and email account voluntarily to the committee, without any claim of executive privilege.

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