While Donald Trump has obviously checked out on the pandemic, the economy and running the government, he still has interest in overturning the elections. The New York Times reports Trump is actively considering appointing one of his election attorneys, Sidney Powell, as a special counsel on election fraud.

“…[A}s a lawyer for his campaign team Powell) unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.”

The Times reports most of Trump’s advisers opposed the idea, including another Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani had another idea. He proposed having the Department of Homeland Security seize voting machines to examine them for possible fraud. The Times reports DHS has no authority to do that.

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman writes: “The fact of the meeting – and Giuliani hope of seizing the voting machines – has alarmed some of the president’s advisers, who see his desire to take his refusal to accept the election results as in a dangerous new place.”