'Dangerous precedent': Jan. 6 committee trains its sights on false pro-Trump electors

[hookaleft]

Source: POLITICO

As Capitol attack investigators dig into efforts by state-level Republicans to send Congress “alternative” slates of 2020 presidential electors, they're zeroing in on the involvement of Donald Trump's White House and campaign operations.

As presidential electors gathered in December 2020 to affirm Joe Biden’s victory, the Republicans who would have been Trump’s electors in several states that Biden won gathered anyway to cast unofficial votes. In five of those states — Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia — those electors then signed certificates claiming they were “duly elected and qualified” to represent their states.

Those certificates were then mailed to the National Archives and Congress. Now the Jan. 6 select panel is looking deeper at the Trump network's role in that strategy, which Democrats increasingly say may have amounted to a crime.


“We want to look at the fraudulent activity that was contained in the preparation of these fake Electoral College certificates,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Capitol riot committee. “And then we want to look to see to what extent this was part of a comprehensive plan to overthrow the 2020 election.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/january-6-committee-precedent-pro-trump-electors-527528

[empedocles]

1. Important

[gab13by13]

2. Important that DOJ is involved.

[viva la]

3. Rachel had a great opening segment on fake electors

With a voicemail from Dec 1 2020 from Angela, a weary Trump campaign staffer calling state GOP legislators telling them about this cool new way they can help steal the election. She mentions how banal it sounds, this young woman reading monotonously from a script.... apparently having called dozens of people... And yet it's a year later, and we're just now hearing about this. None of the GOPers called took this public? Thought it was worth discussing?

Angela talked to committee in Nov, btw.

https://m.

[orangecrush]

4. KICK

[Midnight Writer]

5. They are like roaches in a house. Every time you turn on a light, you send them scurrying away.

[Harker]

6. Alternative electors from the people who brought you alternative facts.

Trumpsky and Co. are running out of alternatives.

[Zambero]

9. That raises another question

Whatever has become of Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway??

[Harker]

10. I can only guess... she's on an otherwise deserted beach...

yakking on her phone.

[Thunderbeast]

7. This solicitation was made to hundreds of individual legislators.

Of ALL the Republican state legislators in swing states called, NOT ONE OF THEM had the courage to expose this obvious corruption. NOT ONE!

The party has become a crime syndicate with a ruthless mob boss at it's throne. It is imperative that we cleanse the democracy of it's criminal element using state and federal prosecutions. Our laws were written to prevent EXACTLY what has been happening to our nation.

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. A crime syndicate from Queens, NYC, just like the John Gotti mob.

Everyone around TFG was participating including his family. Capos in state campaign organizations, state legislatures, and media outlets. Each one a patriot dedicated to doing what's best for the United States by destroying the government of the United States, its institutions and norms.

[Mz Pip]

11. Who was the idiot

Who thought no one would notice when the phoney electors votes were cast for Trump? If they actually managed to switch out electors I think there would be serious outrage from the States who’s votes they changed.

[myohmy2]

12. okay...

" “We want to look at the fraudulent activity that was contained in the preparation of these fake Electoral College certificates," "

...but don't take too long, time's a-wastin'...

...there's a lot more "Dangerous precedents" heading our way if we don't get a handle on this...

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