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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis puts to rest the idea the fraudulent electors thing was a stunt or just in case maneuver
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MLAA
(17,165 posts)all on her own and he never saw it.
EleanorR
(2,374 posts)MLAA
(17,165 posts)she should make a cooperation deal ASAP to minimize her own sentence. Of course Id 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)Cleta Mitchell and co. are appalling. The level of partisan hackery and outright gleeful meanness is beyond... just beyond. ALEC is a menace.
EleanorR
(2,374 posts)Highly recommend NOT reading if one has blood pressure issues. It is infuriating.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/cleta-mitchell-election-assistance-commission-advisor/index.html
rsdsharp
(9,042 posts)Still a sleazy dick after all these years.
malaise
(267,823 posts)HUGE!
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)There's a blast of noxious gas from the past.
Cha
(295,926 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)crickets
(25,896 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Some of this investigation must be LMAO way too easy thanks to how stupid you have to be to do a coup coup coup.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Metadata and Dan Quayle. Wheeee!
tanyev
(42,360 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)Cha
(295,926 posts)DeeNice
(574 posts)Emile
(21,909 posts)As a matter of fact, it's past time!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)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)I can't believe they're not all behind bars!
wnylib
(21,146 posts)wipe out half of the GOP in Congress.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)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)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.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Cha
(295,926 posts)Clea Mitchelle, Mary Voight, and the FAKE electors can FO to Prison.
Fucking slobbering Drooling Fascists.
appmanga
(523 posts)...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)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)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)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 womans 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 nations 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. Thats why the aides 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.
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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)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.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Generic Brad
(14,270 posts)Thank goodness.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)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)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 theyd put together in their fevered heads.
gab13by13
(20,867 posts)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)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.
Aussie105
(5,215 posts)It was a serious attempt.
Saying 'we were joking, just messing about' won't cut it.
TeamProg
(5,788 posts)precaution!
Scum bags..
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)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.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)KPN
(15,587 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)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)Bookmarking so that I can read the attched memo later. Maybe I won't be screaming and swearing then.
BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)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.