Media Matters has found that other election deniers have been discussing a draft executive order. A figure known as Juan O. Savin who is tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory — and who previously recruited election denial candidates for positions where they would be in charge of election administration around the country — said that his “team … wrote up” a “17-page document” on elections which it “provided to the president last spring” and said that Trump is “going to use … 80, 85, 90%” of it.
Another election denier, Mark Cook, also suggested on a podcast that he “co-authored” the proposed executive order Savin said he was involved with, adding that “a lot of brains got together and put that together to offer our president and the Trump administration, you know, a path to solve the problem.”
Election deniers have also been advocating for a national emergency, saying they were “encouraging the president to declare a national emergency right now on this issue” and urged Trump to “execute his National Emergency Act powers” to supposedly protect elections because executive orders “are permissible in states of national and foreign emergencies.” Other election deniers advocating for a national emergency include former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who alongside attorney Sidney Powell attended a December 2020 Oval Office meeting where Trump was urged to seize voting machines.
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