The attorney who first developed the fake electors plot emphasized to TPM last year that the Trump campaign’s disputes over the election were in good faith. Now, special prosecutor Jack Smith says that key aspects of them were “pretext,” aimed squarely at keeping a criminal scheme alive.
All these machinations and schemes that have never been used before, where/how did Chesebro figure this out?
Thanks for this reporting, Mr. Kovensky. Well done.
Likely in a Rightwing Legal Hothouse financed by Dark Money Billionaires. It’s how they do their scheming.
A guy like J. Smith is probably rare nowadays; a guy who just unravels stuff, one thread at a time. What a deadly sleuth to have on your ass. Many thanks to the many gods and demons that this guy is here at this time.
When Josh discussed the Trump Plot a few weeks ago, I agreed with his original premise. I also thought that the J6 riot was an event ‘caused’ by but not ‘planned by’ Donald J Trump Sr.
He (and I) never thought he would plan out the destruction of the American Republic.
I wish we had a talent of the brilliance of Dante to come up with the HELL The Donald belongs in.
I seem to recall it mentioned during the 2000 Florida morass that in 1960 in Hawaii, there was a bipartisan agreement that both slates of electors vote on the mandatory date, and the one that was found by an as yet uncompleted recount to have won would be presented to Congress the following year. It was the state’s first presidential election, the vote was very close and they naturally were not all that experienced in handling a statewide election. In the end, it was agreed by all that Nixon had won the state (but of course not the election) and his slate’s votes were counted by Congress in 1961 (and Nixon as Vice President was presiding over the count, as Gore would in 2001).
Look at all the games you get to play when your daddy is rich and the Supreme Court is walking point for the requirements of your odious and bloodthirsty race.
This reminds me of the Deep Throat quote “These aren’t very bright people, and then things got out of control” or words to that effect. This is a stunning display of hubris, arrogance and audacity.
They will be singing the chorus to Paperback Writer before long. (I found out etc…)
Cheesy Bro is just too clever for his own good and clearly sees democracy as nothing more than a game to play. Powell is absolutely ensconced in LaLa land, Guiliani is ready for either or both rehab and a memory care unit. The wanna be AG is nothing but greedy for power. And then there is Eastman, a man who who pretends to be conservative but is nothing but a radical right wing autocrat loving democracy hating creep. As a Coloradan, I think we should be looking at the president of CU who was foisted off on the University by the equally dimwitted and (at the time) right wing dominated Board of Regents to represent the interests of the oil and gas industry. He was the one who hired Eastman for a sinecure for unemployed wingnuts of the right. There is one thing that Trump is really good at these days: scraping the bottom of the barrel and finding the worst of the worst to do his bidding. These are people with big mouths and zero shame. I doubt any of them will sing but indictments would be nice.
And former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley was “all in.”
Paraphrasing Grassley:
“We don’t expect VP Pence at the count of electors… I (Grassley) will be presiding”
Justice demands a fair trial for every fake elector.
Chesebro is irritatingly thick and pathetic. I’ll leave it there.
They’ve been working up to this since Bush v Gore. Plenty of time to fill the white board, erease, and try something else.
The attorney who first developed the fake electors plot emphasized to TPM last year that the Trump campaign’s disputes over the election were in good faith.
No one around Trump does anything in “good faith”
Nothing to add, but this needs to be repeated. As loudly, and as often as possible. Grassley belongs in jail.
(Also, I don’t believe he was chairman of the Judiciary, at that point, (I could be wrong), but, he was certainly in line to be President of the Senate Pro-Tempore.)
Hey, if election fraud is just improving our Democracy by increasing debate and airing of our differences, where else would a little light fraud improve our lives?/snark
Oh they are around but what they do is tedious esp to the media that wants drama, a horserace or blood and guts.
We are in the bread and circus era of our nation, I hope we survive it better than the ancient Romans.
I hope Mr. Smith is going to nail this fat turd. Case looks pretty airtight to me, but IANAL.
John Eastman has made a career out of concocting fringy constitutional law theories, and there are other FedSoc lawyers in the same mould. The most recent prior to J6: Kamala Harris is not a natural born citizen of the US. Would have to look up some of the ancient history, but he was active in the legal fight against marriage equality back in the day.