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This puts to rest the idea the fraudulent electors thing was a stunt or just in case maneuver (Original Post) EleanorR Jan 2022 OP
I'd advise her to turn on TFG ASAP because he will clearly say she concocted the document MLAA Jan 2022 #1
Cleta Mitchell was on trump's illegal GA call EleanorR Jan 2022 #6
I know, really awful. My only point was TFG will turn on her in a second and MLAA Jan 2022 #9
Wow, that is an amazing article. crickets Jan 2022 #13
where she is now- EleanorR Jan 2022 #31
Gary "Mr. Prezadent, it's time for you to resign" Bauer is still alive? rsdsharp Jan 2022 #2
Off to the greatest page malaise Jan 2022 #3
Ken Freaking Blackwell wryter2000 Jan 2022 #4
No shite.. & DeMented.. Cha Jan 2022 #21
+1, all the fuckin traitors are coming out of the wood work !! uponit7771 Jan 2022 #26
Cleta Mitchell is about to go through some things. Wow. nt crickets Jan 2022 #5
How many of these insane clowns have no idea their files have metadata with incriminating evidence? L. Coyote Jan 2022 #12
Metadata may end up saving the country. crickets Jan 2022 #14
Strange days indeed. tanyev Jan 2022 #15
That is some thin gruel, right there. dchill Jan 2022 #19
Braindead. Cha Jan 2022 #22
Kickety kick DeeNice Jan 2022 #7
It's time for the DOJ to start making arrests! Emile Jan 2022 #8
State of Georgia, State of New York, Fake Elector states, also, bar insurrectionists L. Coyote Jan 2022 #16
They'll spill their guts if they were under arrest. Emile Jan 2022 #18
Get rid of them now and it would wnylib Jan 2022 #29
If we want to protect our democracy, Mr.Bill Jan 2022 #10
I'm pretty well convinced at this point, that if you commit election fraud.. Volaris Jan 2022 #45
At last the light is intensifying. Keep increasing the wattage and illumination. Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #11
Kick dalton99a Jan 2022 #17
Rts TY this is important information! Cha Jan 2022 #20
There is an active, motivated... appmanga Jan 2022 #23
The enemy within is still the enemy. . . Aussie105 Jan 2022 #24
It depended on whether or not the "fake" electors were ruled legitimate. kentuck Jan 2022 #25
Also these heroes who saved the actual electoral ballots FakeNoose Jan 2022 #30
A group of the rioters leftieNanner Jan 2022 #33
So much owed to those women, and many other upright citizens! Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2022 #37
Seems a patriot could have tipped them off Generic Brad Jan 2022 #41
I'm wondering why the Capitol attack, then. wnylib Jan 2022 #32
The attack was to buy time. BadgerMom Jan 2022 #44
It isn't rocket science, gab13by13 Jan 2022 #27
You're right, it isn't rocket science. sop Jan 2022 #46
Yes, but no. Aussie105 Jan 2022 #28
Not ILLEGAL ! The Mail-In ballot rules were VOTED ON by state legislatures as a COVID TeamProg Jan 2022 #34
The fact that the prosecution & incarceration of the criminals would gut the GOP is IRRELEVANT Mr. Ected Jan 2022 #35
All part of little Donny's turd collection Blue Owl Jan 2022 #36
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Jan 2022 #38
Oh come on ... it was just a JOKE! Just a silly PRANK for crying out loud. Get real people! KPN Jan 2022 #39
This is the stuff of nightmares. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2022 #40
Still angry and sick about how damned close we came. niyad Jan 2022 #42
Lock them up. BadgerMom Jan 2022 #43

MLAA

(17,165 posts)
1. I'd advise her to turn on TFG ASAP because he will clearly say she concocted the document
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 05:21 PM
Jan 2022

all on her own and he never saw it.

MLAA

(17,165 posts)
9. I know, really awful. My only point was TFG will turn on her in a second and
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 06:06 PM
Jan 2022

she should make a cooperation deal ASAP to minimize her own sentence. Of course I’d love to see them all locked up for the maximum, but someone in the inner circle on planning the electorate path of stealing the election for TFG will get some consideration for cooperating against their co-conspirators.

crickets

(25,896 posts)
13. Wow, that is an amazing article.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 06:28 PM
Jan 2022

Cleta Mitchell and co. are appalling. The level of partisan hackery and outright gleeful meanness is beyond... just beyond. ALEC is a menace.

rsdsharp

(9,042 posts)
2. Gary "Mr. Prezadent, it's time for you to resign" Bauer is still alive?
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 05:24 PM
Jan 2022

Still a sleazy dick after all these years.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
12. How many of these insane clowns have no idea their files have metadata with incriminating evidence?
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 06:19 PM
Jan 2022

Some of this investigation must be LMAO way too easy thanks to how stupid you have to be to do a coup coup coup.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
16. State of Georgia, State of New York, Fake Elector states, also, bar insurrectionists
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 06:52 PM
Jan 2022

from holding office, bring lawsuits against every single one of them in office or seeking new offices and make them prove they are not treason weasels.

Every Republican Congress member who voted for the coup can be sued for insurrection and should be barred from holding any office every again.

Emile

(21,909 posts)
18. They'll spill their guts if they were under arrest.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:06 PM
Jan 2022

I can't believe they're not all behind bars!

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
10. If we want to protect our democracy,
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 06:09 PM
Jan 2022

the prudent thing to do would be to make sure all of these people are in prison at least until after the 2028 elections.

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
45. I'm pretty well convinced at this point, that if you commit election fraud..
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:27 PM
Jan 2022

You should be locked up for as long as the person you committed the fraud FOR, is still in office.

'Oh. So you fucked around with a presidential election, and that guy won? Ok then, you're going away for 4 years. If he wins another term on his own, you're staying in there for another 4.

Because go fuck yourself, that's why.

Oh, it was senate election, and that guy keeps winning now?
Oh, hes on his 5 term? Guess what. 30 years, bitch, and we will let you out when he QUITS.

OWN IT, traitors.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
20. Rts TY this is important information!
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:23 PM
Jan 2022

Clea Mitchelle, Mary Voight, and the FAKE electors can FO to Prison.

Fucking slobbering Drooling Fascists.

appmanga

(523 posts)
23. There is an active, motivated...
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:30 PM
Jan 2022

...fifth column in this country, and they attempted a coup that came close to working.

The Heritage Foundation, once led by rat Jim DeMint, maintains a "Voter Integrity" database which document over in the past 40 years less than 1400 actual cases of proven voter fraud. Including this frightening attempt from 2005:

"Chad Staton pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts for filing false voter registrations in exchange for crack cocaine. Staton allegedly filled out more than 100 forms with names such as Mary Poppins, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Dick Tracy, and George Lopez prior to the 2004 presidential election. He then handed them over to Georgianne Pitts, who worked on behalf of the NAACP National Voter Fund, who turned in the form to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Staton was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment each for six counts of the fifth-degree felony, to be served consecutively, according to court personnel".

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search

The attempted coup was conspiracy on a grand scale and if Democrats fail to hold the House, the extent of it may never be brought to light.

Aussie105

(5,215 posts)
24. The enemy within is still the enemy. . .
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:34 PM
Jan 2022

The enemy within the city walls needs to be treated with the same severity as the enemy outside the city gates.

Harder to identify, but identified they must be!
And treated harshly, for not only are they enemy, but traitors also.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
25. It depended on whether or not the "fake" electors were ruled legitimate.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:39 PM
Jan 2022

Once that happened, if Pence had done what they wanted, they were then going to sign the Executive Order and confiscate all of the election machines in those states that were gotten on the sly. Then, no one could prove Donald Trump did not win those states.

How much must Mike Pence be hated?

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
30. Also these heroes who saved the actual electoral ballots
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 08:01 PM
Jan 2022

(link) https://19thnews.org/2021/01/the-women-who-saved-the-boxes-of-electoral-college-votes-during-a-riot-in-the-capito



The women who saved the boxes of electoral votes during a riot in the Capitol

A Senate aide directed staff to protect the three mahogany boxes containing the certified electoral college votes while rioters stormed the Capitol Wednesday afternoon.

With insurrection at the door, one woman’s thoughts turned to the mahogany and leather boxes in the Senate chamber. The three boxes contained the votes — the very documents that had drawn a mob into the nation’s Capitol during a violent assault on democracy Wednesday afternoon.

The woman, a Senate aide who The 19th is not naming for safety reasons, was the one who directed staffers to gather the 18-inch by 10-inch boxes and transport the votes to a secure location while President Donald Trump supporters incited a riot within the building, sending senators, representatives, aides, interns and reporters to seek shelter while offices were ransacked.

Earlier in the day, the president had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol in protest of the certification of the election taking place.

The certified electoral votes symbolized an election many of them felt they were robbed of. That’s why the aide’s quick thinking has been hailed as heroic by many — though few knew who was the person behind the move to protect the certified electoral votes.

“One of the staff members was very quick thinking and was able to grab and secure the electoral college ballots and take them with her to this location, so we have them with us and we will be able to proceed as long as Mitch McConnell calls us back into session,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth told CBS Evening News Wednesday afternoon.

In the aftermath of the riot, images of staffers carrying the boxes to the joint session of Congress went viral on social media, with many praising the women. But the photos did not depict the moment the boxes were saved — they were from earlier in the day.


- more at link -

Had those electoral documents been altered or destroyed that day, we would have had a hell of a time getting Biden's election certified.

leftieNanner

(14,998 posts)
33. A group of the rioters
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 08:10 PM
Jan 2022

Targeted the Parliamentarians office, apparently searching for those very boxes. The fact that they knew where to go is a mystery that has not yet been solved.

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
32. I'm wondering why the Capitol attack, then.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 08:08 PM
Jan 2022

Just trying to intimidate Pence would not have worked for them. Did they expect to kidnap him? Put someone in his place? Or just use the violence of the attack to declare a national emergency?

BadgerMom

(2,766 posts)
44. The attack was to buy time.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:15 PM
Jan 2022

Elected officials were meant to be held. Proud Boys would move in, armed now. Martial law would be invoked. The Supreme Court stooges were to rule (lookin’ at you, Alito). Pence was to accept the new electors. Hello Trump, buh-bye free and fair elections. (I know. Not that fair, after all.) The insurrection was one part of a seditious puzzle they’d put together in their fevered heads.

gab13by13

(20,867 posts)
27. It isn't rocket science,
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 07:57 PM
Jan 2022

a group of seditionists went right to the office of the Parliamentarian and ransacked it looking for the ballots. If those ballots had been in that office they would have disappeared, and the fraudulent ballots would have appeared.

Thank goodness those aides thought to grab those ballots.

sop

(9,946 posts)
46. You're right, it isn't rocket science.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:33 PM
Jan 2022

The objective was finding and destroying legitimate ballots, then replacing them with fraudulent documents. It's also crystal clear Trump and his henchmen orchestrated the entire thing from beginning to end. This is breathtaking in its criminality.

TeamProg

(5,788 posts)
34. Not ILLEGAL ! The Mail-In ballot rules were VOTED ON by state legislatures as a COVID
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 08:32 PM
Jan 2022

precaution!

Scum bags..

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
35. The fact that the prosecution & incarceration of the criminals would gut the GOP is IRRELEVANT
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 09:04 PM
Jan 2022

From state to federal, executive to legislative, to RNC royalty, the deeper the DOJ digs, the more culpable criminals they'll discover. Hundreds no doubt. Maybe even thousands. Enough to devastate and destroy the Republican Party.

Fully expect that this will be characterized as a political witch hunt, since all the culprits are Republican. This is not political persecution. It's criminal prosecution.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
40. This is the stuff of nightmares.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 01:49 PM
Jan 2022

It should be one of those near misses that leaves you rattled and shivering, like having a speeding car miss you so closely in a crosswalk that you could have reached out and touched it.

niyad

(112,435 posts)
42. Still angry and sick about how damned close we came.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 02:10 PM
Jan 2022

Bookmarking so that I can read the attched memo later. Maybe I won't be screaming and swearing then.

BadgerMom

(2,766 posts)
43. Lock them up.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:08 PM
Jan 2022

I mean it. The right used it as a hollow rallying cry. Their side actually committed crimes against the voters of this country. They turned their back on democracy. Charge them. Try them. Lock them up.

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