A U.S. army cyber lawyer expressed confusion at the apparent plans among Trump’s allies to put him in a senior national security post as part of a proposed move to impose martial law and reverse the president’s electoral defeat.
The day after his name and location appeared in notes taken to the White House by My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, Frank Colon told New York magazine that he was “just a government employee who works for the army” in Fort Meade, in Maryland.
Reporter Ben Jacobs added that Colon “looked confused [over] why he would be taken to the president in any senior position and said he never met Lindell “, although he said” he saw him on TV “.
Advertisements for his pillows that help him sleep made the mustachio Lindell a familiar figure on American screens before emerging as an important ally and supporter of Trump.
The president suffered a second impeachment this week for inciting supporters to attack the United States Capitol on January 6, leaving five dead. Trump will step down on Wednesday, when Joe Biden becomes the 46th president. However, Trump has yet to admit defeat in an election that claims without evidence that it was stolen through mass electoral fraud. Lindell insisted that Trump will start a second term.
“I am called on for a number of projects for the Pentagon,” Colon told Jacobs, formerly of The Guardian, saying that such projects included the Operation Warp Speed program for developing and distributing coronavirus vaccines.
He also said that “it would be weird to get this far” in the Department of Defense for a role as a national security adviser, but he also said that “people know me at the Pentagon” because few people practice cyber law.
Jacobs reported that although Colon said he didn’t use Twitter, one account under the name of Frank Colon Esq contained messages of support for Trump and said of Biden: “If you need the military to protect you from the people during its fraudulent inauguration, the people did not vote for you.”
Lindell did not respond to the reporter at the White House pool on Friday, when his notes were captured by a Washington Post photographer. He did not comment on New York magazine.
But on Friday the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported that Lindell was “carrying the notes of a lawyer he is working with to prove that the election was actually won by Trump, I would not say who it was. He said that part is related to reports that Trump now can’t see because he doesn’t have Twitter. “
Twitter and other platforms banned Trump after the attack on the Capitol, in which a police officer who confronted protesters and a supporter of the president shot by police officers were among those who died. Several arrests were made amid reports of more pro-Trump protests before the inauguration.
Haberman said Lindell’s White House meeting was “brief” and “contentious”.
“Lindell,” she wrote, “insists that the papers he was holding, which were photographed and visible, made no reference to ‘martial law’. A government official said they definitely made reference to martial law.
“But a government official said that Trump was not really enjoying what Lindell was saying. Lindell also seemed frustrated that he was unable to get an audience. “
Haberman also reported that “among the items on Lindell’s list was the replacement [national security adviser Robert] O’Brien ”.