Trump campaign documents give inside look at fake-elector plan

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Anthony Michael Kreis
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Jun 20, 2022
What seems clearer from this is that the fake electors were not simply designed to preserve legal claims— which was a preposterous excuse in any case— but a calculated decision deemed necessary to empower Pence to unilaterally undo the election. #gapol

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Trump campaign documents give inside look at fake-elector plan
A review of emails and memos shows that lawyers advising the former president knew the plan was baseless but pursued it anyway.

Anthony Michael Kreis
@AnthonyMKreis
It’s starting to feel like the evidence is mounting to show a well planned conspiracy to commit election fraud. The real question, for me, is what other stuff is out there that the DOJ or the J6 Committee are holding onto— or the special grand jury has yet to uncover. #gapol
9:16 AM · Jun 20, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/20/trump-documents-fake-elector-plan/

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The convening of the electoral college on Dec. 14, 2020, was supposed to mark the end of the wild, extended presidential election that year.

But when the day arrived, a strange thing happened. In seven swing states won by Joe Biden, when the Democrat’s electors assembled to formally elect him president, Trump supporters showed up, too, ready to declare that their man had actually won.

“The electors are already here — they’ve been checked in,” a state police officer told the group in Michigan, according to a video of the encounter, as he barred the Republicans from the Capitol in a state Biden won by more than 154,000 votes.

In Nevada, a state Biden had won by about 33,600 votes, a photo distributed by the state Republican Party showed Trump supporters squeezing around an undersize picnic table dressed up with a bit of bunting, preparing to sign formal certificates declaring that they were “the duly elected and qualified” electors of their state.

At the time, the gatherings seemed a slapdash, desperate attempt to mimic President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede.

But internal campaign emails and memos reveal that the convening of the fake electors appeared to be a much more concerted strategy, intended to give Vice President Mike Pence a reason to declare the outcome of the election was somehow in doubt on Jan. 6, 2021, when he was to preside over the congressional counting of the electoral college votes.

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