A month after Election Day, a lawyer working on Donald Trump’s bid to steal a second term in office was brutally honest — if only in private — about the effort to submit fraudulent slates of Electoral College votes from several states around the country.
“‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes,” he said in a follow-up email, alongside a smiley face emoji.
Alternafake? Alternafraud.
Members of Congress, Wilenchik said, “could technically argue that they’re not bound by federal law because they’re Congress and make the law, etc.”
You gotta love the “etc.”
“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted,” said the Arizona lawyer Jack Wilenchik, in an email to trump advisor Boris Epshteyn.
Enjoy the sentencing phase of your trial, boys.
(You’ve earned it!)
The Judge Dredd defense. 90% of the time it works every time.
Looks like somebody may be having a discussion with their bar association ethics committee.
Whatever happened to Toensing and diGenova? Did they get out before all hell broke loose?
Fascistic Thugs hellbent on using the rights people died for to dismantle the bases of those rights.
I’m looking for the “sitting president calls vote fraud so therefore automatically wins” clause in the constitution. Still haven’t found it.
Funny how many supposed “journalists” were apparently directly involved in these schemes.
To the extent that anyone who works for OAN and its ilk could ever be called a journalist.
Pandoras Box was at the foot of that 2015 Escalator. The term criminal is not only weak, but is, in fact, a mockery.
Eh, they’re really only aspiring rogues. More of a rougey cheeks gallery.
@emptywheel just reported they’re on a list of people of interest to DoJ’s investigators, in the context of the fake electors scam (x.com .)
OT, but sounds like a very good idea.
Fake electors = Real seditious conspiracy.
From Wikipedia:
DiGenova and his wife were among several Trump associates who were emailed by OANN anchor Christina Bobb on December 13, 2020 regarding efforts by Republicans in seven states to appoint false electors and create fraudulent certificates of ascertainment to be submitted to vice president Mike Pence for certification on January 6, 2021.[55]
The good news is that soon no one will be working for the onanism network.
Sounds like another investigation waiting to happen.
GC has thoughts:
