CNN said that US President Donald Trump discussed during a meeting with a number of his aides and allies the issue of declaring martial law, to change the election outcome that was won by his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
The network quoted its sources as saying that the former advisor to the president for national security, General Michael Flynn - who had raised this idea a few days ago - was present at the meeting held yesterday, and that the discussion intensified when Flynn accused the president's aides, led by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, of not doing anything. Needed to defend Trump.
For his part, AXIOS said that the attorney of the outgoing president called an official in the Ministry of Homeland Security to ask him about the possibility of the ministry confiscating voting machines.
The website added that the Homeland Security official responded to Trump's lawyer that the ministry does not have the authority to confiscate the voting machines.
Trump had said that Joe Biden did not win the election, and that he lost in swing states by a large margin before the fraud took place.
He added, in a tweet on Twitter, that they had canceled hundreds of thousands of votes in each of these states, saying that they had been "seized," referring to the Democrats.
The US President said that Republican politicians must fight a battle so that their victory is not stolen, and that they should not be foolish and weak, as he put it.
Trump still insists that the presidential elections were rigged, even though he lost all the lawsuits that he filed in US courts, alleging widespread fraud.
The electoral college recently approved Biden's victory in the elections, while an American website reported that Trump threatened that he would not leave the White House on the day of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, on January 20.