The most glaring takeaway from the draft Executive Order of December 16, 2020 to my mind is the assignment to the Secretary of Defense of seizing voting machines used to elect President Biden. Download Draft Executive Order dated December 16 2020.
Why the Secretary of Defense and not the Attorney General? Why order the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines and not not the Attorney General, who is more involved with elections than the Pentagon, after all?
Because they did not think the Attorney General would do it.
The Attorney General at the time -- remember that this document is dated "December 16, 2020" -- already showed that he was not inclined to seize voting machines, we now know. The Secretary of Defense at the time was a protege of TFG, appointed as recently as November 2020.
The goal was to seize voting machines, so the goal had to include picking someone who was likely to perpetrate the seizure of voting machines rather than oppose it. This first question has a simple answer. That's why the Attorney General was not included here. He wouldn't be likely to go along with it. Someone else had to be the choice to perpetrate the scheme.
Really, in the end, simple as that. But why mobilize the National Guard, and why not the Army?
To be continued .... For more of an "inside baseball" look at this problem, see today's post at Insurance Claims and Bad Faith Law Blog, https://insuranceclaimsbadfaith.typepad.com/insurance_claims_badfaith/2022/01/questions-raised-by-the-draft-executive-order-dated-december-16-2020.html.
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