The timeline of the conspiracy
It started the moment Donald Trump entered the arena. The moment he came down the golden escalator and started blaming the immigrants for all our problems. He was always the victim. If Hillary won the election, that means it was rigged, he said.
So one year out from his re-election bid, he began anew. There was no way Biden could win unless the election was stolen. He would leave the country if Sleepy Joe won, he said. It was impossible for him to lose, he told his supporters.
Then, he lost.
He wanted revenge and the conspiracy began. Plan A. He went to all the courts. He lost all his cases. He had zero evidence anything was "stolen" from him. He used the courts in an attempt to get them to rule in his favor. This was immediately after the election in early November.
When he saw that was not going to work, he moved to plan B. He would pressure the politicians and the state legislatures in the toss-up states. He would call them and threaten them, as he did with Raffensberger in GA. He conspired heavily with the Republicans in Arizona and they were willing to cooperate with him in every instance, including a recount of the votes by the Cyber Ninjas.
Then he moved to Plan C, as a backup if none of the above worked. He would get the Republican legislators in the toss-up states to create "alternate" ballots to mail in declaring Donald J Trump the winner in their states. He would use Rudy as his point man in the plot. In the interim, he would pressure Mike Pence to declare the "alternate" ballots as the real ballots on January 6th and he would remain in the White House. If Pence balked at that idea, he could simply send the ballots back to the states and let them verify the winner. In the end, Pence chose to do neither.
There was nothing left but Plan D.
On December 19th, 6 days before Christmas, he sent out a tweet to his followers. He was requesting they be in Washington DC on January 6th, the day Pence would make his decision. "It will be wild", he told them.
Then he set up a team to handle Plan D. They would work out of the Willard Hotel in a "war room" with Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn and others. They would coordinate the final step in the conspiracy. They would prevent the ballots from being verified by Pence on January 6th. Trump would handle his Republican friends in the House and Senate to make sure they did their job to block the certification of Joe Biden as the next President. People like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, and many others were more than willing to do his bidding.
When it became evident that Pence was not going to go along with their plot, Plan D was put into place. If they did not "show strength, they would have no country", he told them in his speech. He incited them to march down to the "Cap-i-tol" and that he would be with them. But he never went with them. He went back to the White House to watch it on TV and to enjoy what they were willing to do just for him.
And now, the Select Committee is putting all the pieces together.
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