‘Team Normal’ Just Looked The Other Way While Alternate Elector Scheme Unfolded

The January 6 Committee laid out new details in the fake elector scheme at its Tuesday hearing, providing a look at how senior Trump officials tried to limit their own involvement in the plan while allowing it to go forward.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1420785

Trump’s minions and supporters, in and out of government, are (and were) modern day members of a Sturmabteilung, i.e. power hungry, politically motivated thugs.

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Every day, more rage. I don’t know that my heart can take it.

FUCKING COWARDS.

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There was never team normal. They did nothing to stop the 5th grader. Absolutely Nothing !

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It’s a piece of evidence which suggests that the plan to feed alternate electors to Pence may have had support from within the Senate.

Anybody looking at that little rat bastard Josh Hawley?

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Hey Alexa Henning: yeahhhhh BULLSHIT

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Not to mention Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, and Charles (I’m not dead yet despite what you think) Grassley.

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Alexa Henning, a Johnson spokeswoman, said in a statement that the senator “had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office.”

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His polling has to be odd, if it’s necessary to get a rapid response statement out.

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“I had no knowledge of the plot to overturn the election that I was involved in, or the slate of fake electors that my office was delivering to VP Pence in order to illegally install Trump as president.”

I think that about covers what Johnson is trying to say…how the fake elector list passes through his office without him knowing anything about its production is surely a good story. Or, I should say lie, his staffer made it clear they were passing it along for the Senator, that’s not something they would say if Johnson wasn’t pushing it through. It sure would be interesting to see the evidence behind that, and see Johnson try to defend his effort to overturn the WI and MI election results during the campaign.

As for “Team Normal”…normal would have been resigning en masse and declaring that there was a plot to overthrow the government. Sitting back and waiting to see if a coup is pulled off is not what patriotic Americans do, even if it’s going to come out in your favor. I guess they are doing better than Pence, who is still licking Trump’s boots in an effort to get back into power, but it’s really too late for those that could have made a difference by publicly denouncing what happened or giving evidence for the second impeachment.

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It’s a piece of evidence which suggests that the plan to feed alternate electors to Pence may have had support from within the Senate.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/17/john-eastman-pardon-list/

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“…And I most certainly never received any text messages from Rudy Giuliani at 2:30 pm or 4:00 pm on Jan 5!”

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During closing arguments, a lawyer for Bill Cosby told jurors they need to look past years of public accusations against the actor and comedian and consider only the evidence presented by Huth.

And that’s exactly what they did…

“I was trying to deflect,” she said. “But he didn’t stop. I just closed my eyes. … It was so fast. Maybe five minutes. Quick.”

The premature rapist?

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Hahaha!

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On to some great news Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis has ruled that Dominion Voting Systems can proceed with their defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network and Fox Corp, which includes Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.

According to US News Report “Dominion has adequately pleaded actual malice with respect to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch,” wrote the judge.

In other reports, they are stating that the Murdochs told Trump that he lost the election. Judge Davis wrote in his brief, “newspapers under Rupert Murdoch’s control – including the Wall Street Journal and New York Post – condemned Trump’s claims and urged him to concede defeat.” In his ruling, the judge wrote, “that Dominion had met the standard for actual malice.” Davis wrote the Murdochs “caused Fox News to broadcast false claims about Dominion even though they did not personally believe Trump’s election fraud narrative.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2022-06-21/fox-news-parent-must-face-defamation-lawsuit-over-election-coverage

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T3…
Trump Turdlicking Traitors

Team Slightly Less Seditious

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The most significant concern is that the right/center-right electorate does not appear to have turned away from Trump and his minions. Reminds me of Hitler’s increased popularity after he was jailed in 1923 following his Munich putsch.

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Do I have to? I so want him to fall so hard that he loses three inches.

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