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Exclusive: Recordings, emails show how Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC in final push to overturn 2020 election (www.cnn.com)

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Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.

So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to the nation’s capital, relying on a haphazard chain of couriers, as well as help from two Republicans in Congress, to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification.

The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.

The new details provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the chaotic last-minute effort to keep Donald Trump in office. The fake electors scheme features prominently in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment against the former president, and some of the officials who were involved have spoken to Smith’s investigators.

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[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

I’m going to need all you libtards to show me where on the constitution it says that crimes are illegal or that presidents can’t commit a lil treason every now and then

Also, what’s taking so long to throw this shitbag in jail already

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

If SCOTUS rules that sitting presidents are immune from all crimes I want biden to just fucking chainsaw the cheeto in the face. Maybe that'd be a big enough object lesson for maga zombies, but probably not even then.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

They've got quite the conundrum on their hands. Do they affirm the power of states and the presidency, and strengthen Democrats? Or do they weaken the power of states and the presidency, and weaken Republicans and Trump's position? Or do they try to have the best of both worlds, and deepen their reputation as corrupt and become even more highly unpopular?

I hope they're really frustrated about this.

[-] occhionaut@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

This feels like the democratic equivalent of putting out a flaming bag of dog shit.

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