Donald Trump Says Fake Electors Scheme Was 'Official Act'

[orangecrush]

A Donald Trump lawyer has said that an alleged fake elector scheme was an "official act" and so should be immune from prosecution in Trump's federal election interference case.

Speaking to CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday night, Will Scharf, an attorney for the former president, laid out the next steps for special counsel Jack Smith's case following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have absolute immunity for their official acts but no immunity for private acts.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fake-electors-scheme-supreme-court-1919928

And so it begins...

[Irish_Dem]

1. Raping women and children were official acts too.

All in the line of duty.

[Progressive dog]

2. Of Course he does

and the Imperial SCOTUS might agree with him.

[Omnipresent]

3. So sending fake electors is a constitutional duty of the president's?

The six children playing dress up, and pretending to be SCJ’s need to be impeached immediately!

[underpants]

4. If threatening tweets are "official acts" everything is

According to Jennifer Rubin on Morning Joe, the reason for the sentencing delay was because tweets he sent IN OFFICE threatening Cohen were submitted as evidence AND because SCOTUS reached out to cover that in the ruling there is a delay.

So if he is in office I guess everything is an official act. 🙄

[Emile]

5. Thanks to the Supreme Court the American people lost a right

to no one is above the law in our justice. We now are open to a dictators like Hitler and Castro. Be interesting
to see how the Miami Cuban community votes. Will they be hypocrites and vote for the Magic R or will they vote
for Biden?

[Mz Pip]

6. Even Amy Coney Barrett disagrees

Of course for Trump, anything he does counts as an official act. If the lower courts rule against him, he’ll take it to his friends on SCOTUS.

[tetedur]

7. Article II Section 1

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress. . . .

The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. . . .

So how do they get to "an official act" by the President when the Constitution states clearly the States appoint the Electors?

This is gas lighting. This is bullshit. Any media repeating their bullshit as if it has validity is in on the subversion of our government.

[shrike3]

8. Gee. What a shock. Who'd have known?

[GreenWave]

9. Flushing documents is also official, right?

As is throwing ketchup, etc.