## Documented Actions: 2020-2022

1. Late December 2020: Created and circulated a 38-page PowerPoint presentation titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN.” The document outlined specific mechanisms to overturn the election: (a) have Vice President Pence reject electors from contested states, (b) replace Biden electors with Republican electors, or (c) delay certification while U.S. Marshals and National Guard troops “secured” and recounted paper ballots in key states.

2. November 2020 – January 2021: Visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election. By his own admission, spoke with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows “maybe eight to 10 times.” Claimed his contribution focused on allegations of foreign interference in election systems.

3. January 5, 2021: A version of the PowerPoint was transmitted to Meadows — one day before the Capitol assault. The timing demonstrates that detailed operational plans for overturning the election were reaching the White House in the final hours before January 6.

4. January 5, 2021: Participated in meetings at the Willard Hotel “war room” in the days immediately preceding January 6, placing him at the nerve center of the effort to block certification.

5. December 2021: Subpoenaed by the House Select Committee investigating January 6. The committee sought information about his promotion of election fraud claims, circulation of the PowerPoint, communications with Trump officials and members of Congress, and participation in the Willard Hotel meetings.

## Democratic Malice Assessment

> Cumulative Designation: Active Subversion Campaign

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> Qualifying actions scored: 3

> Highest individual DMS: 5 — Systemic Malice

> Primary categories: Election Process Sabotage, Election Process Sabotage (Institutional), Rule of Law Destruction

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> | # | Action | Category | DMS | Key Evidence | Ideology vs. Malice Determination |

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> | 1 | 38-page PowerPoint blueprint for overturning the election — authored “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” outlining: (a) VP Pence rejecting electors from contested states, (b) replacing Biden electors with Republican electors, and (c) U.S. Marshals and National Guard troops seizing and recounting ballots; circulated to White House officials and members of Congress; transmitted to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 5, 2021 — one day before the Capitol assault; participants in the Willard Hotel war room received the document | Election Process Sabotage | 5 — Systemic Malice | J6 Select Committee documentation; Waldron’s own acknowledgment of the document and his circulation of it; Meadows transmission records (January 5, 2021); reporting on Congressional member briefings; Waldron’s White House visit records | Malice. A retired U.S. Army Colonel with a career in psychological operations and cyber operations created a step-by-step operational document for overturning a certified presidential election and circulated it to the White House and members of Congress one day before January 6. This is the most detailed documented institutional coup blueprint in modern American history. The ideological path: political advocacy, legal challenges, electoral participation. Waldron instead created an instruction manual for using legitimate governmental mechanisms — military deployments, VP procedural powers, legislative action — to override a democratic outcome. His PSYOP background is directly relevant: he knew how to construct an influence operation. DMS 5 because the document constitutes a systemic blueprint that provided both a plan and false legitimacy to the institutional component of the January 6 operation. |

> | 2 | Willard Hotel war room participation — participated in the operational coordination center (January 5–6, 2021) with Giuliani, Bannon, Eastman, Epshteyn and others; provided both his PowerPoint as an institutional planning document and his presence as a retired military officer lending operational credibility to the coup coordination | Election Process Sabotage | 4 — Active Direction | J6 Select Committee documentation of Waldron’s Willard Hotel presence; overlap of his participation with documented Willard coordination (Pence pressure, state elector strategy, Congressional member coordination) | Malice. Waldron’s Willard Hotel presence is scored separately from the PowerPoint because it represents operational participation in real-time coordination, not just document authorship. His military background and the “legitimizing” function his presence served within the war room constitute Active Direction. The convergence of the PowerPoint document delivered to Meadows on January 5 with his physical presence at the Willard on January 5–6 establishes that Waldron was integrated into the operation at its most consequential moment. |

> | 3 | Congressional briefings on electoral rejection — directly briefed members of Congress on mechanisms to reject certified electoral slates, providing elected officials with a military officer’s framing of procedural pathways to overturn the election; the briefings translated the PowerPoint’s contents into actionable instruction for legislators | Rule of Law Destruction | 4 — Active Direction | J6 Select Committee subpoena documentation; Waldron’s own statements about Congressional access; reporting on the distribution of his materials to Congressional members | Malice. Briefing elected officials on how to use their legislative authority to override a certified presidential election is not political advocacy — it is Active Direction of a rule-of-law destruction effort. The ideological path: testifying before Congress about election security concerns through legitimate channels. Waldron instead provided Congressional members with an operational framework designed to convert their procedural authority into a tool for overturning democratic outcomes. |

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> Ideology vs. Malice — what is NOT scored here: Waldron’s military service, his beliefs about election security vulnerabilities, his general concerns about foreign interference in election systems, and his views on election administration reform are not scored. The DMA scores the specific conduct: creating and circulating a detailed operational blueprint for overturning a specific certified election, with timed transmission to the White House Chief of Staff one day before January 6.

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> Assessment basis: The PowerPoint’s existence, contents, and circulation are documented by the J6 Select Committee. The timing of the Meadows transmission (January 5, 2021) is documented in Committee records. Waldron has acknowledged the document and his authorship. The absence of criminal charges against Waldron — despite his being the author of the most detailed documented institutional coup blueprint from January 6 — is itself a notable accountability gap documented in the profile.

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> Legal disclaimer: The Democratic Malice Assessment is an analytical framework applying defined criteria to documented public conduct. Designations are evaluative conclusions, not statements of criminal guilt. No DMS score constitutes a finding of criminal liability. The factual predicates are cited to primary sources; the evaluative conclusions are protected expression under New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.