Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT

President Trump said during an interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election, even though he doubted whether the Guard was “sophisticated enough” to carry out the order effectively.

The remarks by Mr. Trump in the interview last week harked back to one of the most perilous moments from his first term in office, when he was urged by some advisers to order his national security agencies to take control of machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems in an effort to find evidence that they had been hacked to rig the election against him.

The statement also came as he has continued his attacks on digital voting machines, saying that he wants to “lead a movement” to get rid of them altogether in advance of this year’s midterm elections.

Mr. Trump has long been obsessed with voting machines, particularly those built by Dominion, a company that has figured prominently in conspiracy theories that technology was used to rob him of victory in his race against Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/trump-voting-machines-2020-election.html

[SheltieLover]

1. Kick

[sakabatou]

2. "Dammit! I should've cheated more during the election!" -Dump, probably

[yellow dahlia]

3. He is going to do whatever it takes to make sure Dems don't flip either chamber

in Congress for the midterms. Whatever it takes!

We will use technology...and tabulators...and Musk.

He will use martial law, if he can.

[thought crime]

11. Yep, here we go...

Trump is moving into campaign mode, which means cheating wherever possible.

[tonekat]

4. There he goes again

Saying the quiet part out loud, so we know what is going to happen the next time. And, of course, they'll do it armed to the teeth.

[slightlv]

7. You heard he has come up with an "approved Voter Ballot" form

and is threatening states that don't implement for the next election, etc...

We are NOT going to have a clean election this year nor any other year until the dictator and his minions (including most ALL republicans are gone or dead). There are some who I have respect for their character. I may not agree with their ideas, and would fight them all levels on implementing those ideas. But they've stood up for this country when it counted. I don't take that lightly.

[creon]

5. Admits that he lost

That is an admission that he lost the election

[Polybius]

12. Not really

It's an admission that those were the results that he disputed. He is saying that seizing the machines would show that he won. It's crazy how he thinks.

[Stargazer99]

6. Trump does not need to worry now a Republican now OWNS Dominion voting

and half of you don't know it, what do you think will happen??

[slightlv]

8. No, Stargazer99, I didn't know that...

though I suspected they did. And even if not... I really assumed they'd just implement the ones Ivanka got a Chinese patent for, instead.

[oldmanlynn]

9. This is all becoming normalized

This is all becoming normalized to the point that they expect him to do these things and so it comes as no shock and so it just keeps happening more and more and more

[moniss]

10. Precursor to 2028. But of course

there are apologists who are convinced that somehow the military won't go along with unlawful orders. Despite going along with unlawful orders in Venezuela. Apparently some people think the lawfulness of an order is whether the crooks in charge say it's lawful.

[Javaman]

13. As I keep saying...if we have midterms.

I do not completely believe we will.