Sitting Republican Lawmakers Are Now Directly Implicated In Trump's Fake Elector Scheme- Ring of Fire

[Rhiannon12866]

Multiple Republican lawmakers were directly implicated in Trump's fake elector scheme by the January 6th Committee during their hearings on Tuesday, including Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson had his staff reach out to Mike Pence's staff directly and offered to hand-deliver the fake electors to the then-Vice President. Other members of the House were actively reaching out to state leaders to coordinate other aspects of the scheme, as well. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

[ancianita]

1. Ronna Daniels stated under oath that Trump called her personally to get RNC help.

Maddow just showed the video of that.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I'm also watching Rachel now - and she's the one who broke the fake electors story!

These guys just keep digging themselves in deeper - and the more the Committee investigates, the more they uncover! The way it's been going, they might as well have these hearings every week for the rest of the year...

[ancianita]

3. Yes.

Not sure, offhand, what law they broke, but Laurence Tribe laid out two, IIRC:

18 U.S.C. § 371—CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us

or 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Thanks so much for this! And DOJ needs to listen to Professor Tribe

Not to mention that Merrick Garland was his student!

[ancianita]

5. Right. I'd like to think that Garland listens when his professor talks.

The DOJ seems to be moving and had better keep the FBI on its toes about this "clear and present danger" of this crisis.

[Duppers]

6. K & R