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Background

COVID

Lockdowns

BLM Riots

Q-Anon Theories

Third party planning from outside groups

Republican “Centipede”

Media Complicity

Dominion Voting Machine Scandal

Tucker Carlson

Amplifying anti-election claims

Republican Lawmakers

Certification of the Electoral Votes

Support for Donald’s Election-denial

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/politics/liz-cheney-gop-conference-vote/index.html

Punishing members who speak against Trump

• Cheney was ousted from the Republican leadership from the third highest position in the House for her intense criticisms of Donald Trump’s claims about election rigging.
  • Cheney had one of the most conservative voting records in Congress, and voted in line with Trump’s agenda 92.9% of the time.
• Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) were censured by the Republican party for participating in the J6 House Select Committee. Cheney would go on to get crushed in her election, Kinzinger had already announced he would not be running again.

Donald Trump

Demeanor towards political opposition

Attacks on Institutions

”The Big Lie”

• Trump has knowingly spread false information despite being informed multiple times exactly how election night would go down.
  • In the weeks before election day 2020, Donald Trump’s campaign experts, including his campaign manager Bill Stepien, advised him that the election results would not be fully known on election night.
  • Prior to the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien, along with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, urged President Trump to embrace mail-in voting as potentially beneficial to the Trump Campaign. Presidential advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner recounted others giving Donald Trump the same advice.
    • Donald Trump won in numerous States that allowed no-excuse absentee voting in 2020, including Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
• People knew ahead of time that Trump was going to attempt to claim victory early.
  • Steve Bannon: And what Trump’s gonna do is just declare victory, right? He’s gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner … The Democrats—more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re gonna have a natural disadvantage, and Trump’s going to take advantage of it—that’s our strategy. He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm … . Also, if Trump, if Trump is losing, by 10 or 11 o’clock at night, it’s going to be even crazier. No, because he’s gonna sit right there and say “They stole it. I’m directing the Attorney General to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states.” It’s going to be, no, he’s not going out easy. If Trump—if Biden’s winning, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.
  • Roger Stone: I really do suspect it will still be up in the air. When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. Possession is nine-tenths of the law. No, we won. Fuck you, Sorry. Over. We won. You’re wrong. Fuck you.
  • On election day, Vice President Pence’s staff, including his Chief of Staff and Counsel, became concerned that President Trump might falsely claim victory that evening. The Vice President’s Counsel, Greg Jacob, testified about their concern that the Vice President might be asked improperly to echo such a false statement. Jacob drafted a memorandum with this specific recommendation: “It is essential that the Vice President not be perceived by the public as having decided questions concerning disputed electoral votes prior to the full development of all relevant facts.”
• On election night
  • Stepien: You know, very, very, very bleak. You know, I—we told him—the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief and chances for success at this point. And then we pegged that at, you know, 5, maybe 10 percent based on recounts that were—that, you know, either were automatically initiated or could be—could be initiated based on, you know, realistic legal challenges, not all the legal challenges that eventually were pursued. But, you know, it was—you know, my belief is that it was a very, very—5 to 10 percent is not a very good optimistic outlook.
  • Miller: I was in the Oval Office. And at some point in the conversation Matt Oczkowski, who was the lead data person, was brought on, and I remember he delivered to the President in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose.
  • President Trump refused, and instead said this in his public remarks that evening: “This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election … . We want all voting to stop.” And on the morning of November 5th, he tweeted “STOP THE COUNT!” Halting the counting of votes at that point would have violated both State and Federal laws.
    • William Barr: “Right out of the box on election night, the President claimed that there was major fraud underway. I mean, this happened, as far as I could tell, before there was actually any potential of looking at evidence. He claimed there was major fraud. And it seemed to be based on the dynamic that, at the end of the evening, a lot of Democratic votes came in which changed the vote counts in certain States, and that seemed to be the basis for this broad claim that there was major fraud. And I didn’t think much of that, because people had been talking for weeks and everyone understood for weeks that that was going to be what happened on election night … .”
  • In one of the Select Committee’s hearings, former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt was asked what the chance President Trump had of winning the election after November 7th, when the votes were tallied andevery news organization had called the race for now-President Biden. His response: “None.”
• After the election
  • As the Committee’s hearings demonstrated, President Trump made a series of statements to White House staff and others during this time period indicating his understanding that he had lost.50 President Trump also took consequential actions reflecting his understanding that he would be leaving office on January 20th. For example, President Trump personally signed a Memorandum and Order instructing his Department of Defense to withdraw all military forces from Somalia by December 31, 2020, and from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021.51 General Keith Kellogg (ret.), who had been appointed by President Trump as Chief of Staff for the National Security Council and was Vice President Pence’s National Security Advisor on January 6th, told the Select Committee that “an immediate departure that that memo said would have been catastrophic. It’s the same thing what President Biden went through. It would have been a debacle.”
  • Barr: And I repeatedly told the President in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud, you know, that would have affected the outcome of the election. And, frankly, a year and a half later, I haven’t seen anything to change my mind on that.
  • Exchange between Staff and Stepien
    • Committee Staff: How did he react to those types of conversations where you told him that an allegation or another wasn’t true?
    • Stepien: He was—he had—usually he had pretty clear eyes. Like, he understood, you know—you know, we told him where we thought the race was, and I think he was pretty realistic with our viewpoint, in agreement with our viewpoint of kind of the forecast and the uphill climb we thought he had.
  • Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller told the Committee that he informed President Trump “several” times that “specific to election day fraud and irregularities, there were not enough to overturn the election.”
  • Pence: There was never evidence of widespread fraud. I don’t believe fraud changed the outcome of the election. But the President and the Campaign had every right to have those examined in court. But I told the President that, once those legal challenges played out, he should simply accept the outcome of the election and move on.
  • The General Counsel of President Trump’s campaign, Matthew Morgan: What was generally discussed on that topic was whether the fraud, maladministration, abuse, or irregularities, if aggregated and read most favorably to the campaign, would that be outcome determinative. And I think everyone’s assessment in the room, at least amongst the staff, Marc Short, myself, and Greg Jacob, was that it was not sufficient to be outcome determinative.
  • A group of prominent Republicans have more recently issued a report—titled Lost, Not Stolen—examining “every count of every case brought in these six battleground states” by President Trump and his allies. The report concludes “that Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case.” President Trump and his legal allies “failed because of a lack of evidence and not because of erroneous rulings or unfair judges … . In many cases, after making extravagant claims of wrongdoing, Trump’s legal representatives showed up in court or state proceedings empty-handed, and then returned to their rallies and media campaigns to repeat the same unsupported claims.”
  • Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed by Donald Trump himself.
  • One of those Trump nominees, Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, rejected an appeal by the Trump Campaign claiming that Pennsylvania officials “did not undertake any meaningful effort” to fight illegal absentee ballots and uneven treatment of voters across counties. Judge Bibas wrote in his decision that “calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.” Another Trump nominee, Judge Brett Ludwig of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, ruled against President Trump’s lawsuit alleging that the result was skewed by illegal procedures that governed drop boxes, ballot address information, and individuals who claimed“ indefinitely confined” status to vote from home. Judge Ludwig wrote in his decision, that “this Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits” because the procedures used “do not remotely rise to the level” of breaking Wisconsin’s election rules.
  • Nor is it true that these rulings focused solely on standing, or procedural issues. As Ginsberg confirmed in his testimony to the Select Committee, President Trump’s team “did have their day in court.” Indeed, he and his co-authors determined in their report that of these post-election cases were dismissed by a judge after an evidentiary hearing had been held, and many of these judges explicitly indicated in their decisions that the evidence presented by the plaintiffs was wholly insufficient on the merits.
  • Not a single witness ever provided proof to the J6 committee that fraud existed on any reasonable scale in any state.

Undermining the Electoral Process

• “Beginning election night and continuing through January 6th and thereafter, Donald Trump purposely disseminated false allegations of fraud related to the 2020 Presidential election in order to aid his effort to overturn the election and for purposes of soliciting contributions. These false claims provoked his supporters to violence on January 6th.”
• “Despite knowing that such an action would be illegal, and that no State had or would submit an altered electoral slate, Donald Trump corruptly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes during Congress’s joint session on January 6th.”
• “Donald Trump sought to corrupt the U.S. Department of Justice by attempting to enlist Department officials to make purposely false statements and thereby aid his effort to overturn the Presidential election. After that effort failed, Donald Trump offered the position of Acting Attorney General to Jeff Clark knowing that Clark intended to disseminate false information aimed at overturning the election.”
• ”. Without any evidentiary basis and contrary to State and Federal law, Donald Trump unlawfully pressured State officials and legislators to change the results of the election in their States.”
• “Donald Trump oversaw an effort to obtain and transmit false electoral certificates to Congress and the National Archives.”
• “Donald Trump pressured Members of Congress to object to valid slates of electors from several States.

Plan to Overturn Election Results

• “Knowing that he and his supporters had lost dozens of election lawsuits, and despite his own senior advisors refuting his election fraud claims and urging him to concede his election loss, Donald Trump refused to accept the lawful result of the 2020 election. Rather than honor his constitutional obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome.”

Speech on January 6th

• “Based on false allegations that the election was stolen, Donald Trump summoned tens of thousands of supporters to Washington for January 6th. Although these supporters were angry and some were armed, Donald Trump instructed them to march to the Capitol on January 6th to “take back” their country.”

The Protest

Timeline

Deaths on January 6

Actions of coordinated groups

Police allowed protestors in

Potential FBI Involvement

• Ray Epps

Donald Trump’s failure to act

Aftermath

Prosecutions

Donald Trump Impeachment

Dominion Case

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-incited-january-6-defendants/

Tucker Carlson
Whitmer Kidnapping Attempt
Comparison to BLM stuff

Donald Trump Speech Transcript

• https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
  Donald Trump Speech
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBH7ql34Ex0

al gore toss out votes???

LAWSUITS FOR ELECTION THINGS FROM RUDOLPH GIULIANA, how many of these did Trump’s campaign file?

• page 237 for case breakdown

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/18uri2p/weird_how_biden_won_alot_of_these_states_in_2020/

• Trump was never calling people to violence
• He just wanted people to vote out their leaders
• Who caused it? What set things off?
• Police removing barricades, waving them in
• Ray Epps telling people to storm the capitol, he admitted to orchestrating it

What are they protesting?

• We’re going to vote you out?
  • The protesters were there to get the Republicans to not certify the vote
• Pence
  • Was throwing the election out a coup?
    • “Keep the election in his favor.”

Hillary and FBI

• Strozk “insurance policy”
• Russia collusion scheme

Deserved to know about Hillary
Hunter Biden

He agrees with them

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Sources 

1. @realDonaldTrump, tweet calling on his fans to protest the election on 2012-11-06.
2. @realDonaldtrump, tweet claiming America wasn’t a Democracy after Obama won the election
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Belligerents

1. Country/Faction 1
   1. Division of Country 1’s Forces (optional)
      1. Notable Leaders
      2. Strength in numbers

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1. Country/Faction 2
   1. Division of Country 2’s Forces (optional)
      1. Notable Leaders
      2. Strength in numbers

Casualties and losses

1. Country/Faction 1
   1. Deaths
   2. Wounded
   3. Imprisoned

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1. Country/Faction 2
   1. Deaths
   2. Wounded
   3. Imprisoned

Location

Causes

Undermining The Electoral Process

Donald Trump made statements about the election being rigged even prior to his 2016 election, and continually called for the complete and total ban on mail-in ballots. ABC News catalogueda lot of the false election claims, and I’ve included some below.

Foreknowledge of Disparate Attitudes Towards Mail-in Voting

10 states allowed early voting via mail as early as September for the 2020 election. Donald Trump was making multiple claims of voter fraud via mail-in ballots, which Democrats were known to utilize in greater numbers than Republicans, despite Trump having absolutely no evidence of said voter fraud and despite counting having not even yet begun and no numbers being published. 

Dominion v Fox News pages 18-19

Fox News was also complicit in the process, helping Trump fabricate and prepare to push lies in the event that he lost the election.

The Daily Beast, Fox News Pushes ‘Brain Room’ to Find Evidence for Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims, Insiders Say on October 31st, 2020

Some politicians, like Bernie Sanders, literally predicted (on October 23rd, 2020) the exact outcome of election night because it was already known that mail-in ballots might take a bit longer to count and they would likely dramatically favor Democrats. Sanders even predicted Trump trying to end the voting early.

A leaked audio recording from October 31st, 2020, of Steve Bannon shows him speaking about Trump’s plan to call the election early.

2012 Election

• On November 6th, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that people should “march on Washington” to protest the election results. A few minutes later, he claimed that America “is not a democracy.”

2016 Election

• In February 2016, Donald Trump claimed that Ted Cruz’s campaign rigged the Iowa Caucus.
• On April 16th, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that the Republican primaries were rigged and boss controlled. On that appearance that he references, he goes on to speak about how delegates are just bribed and paid off to vote for certain candidates.
• On August 1st, 2016, Donald Trump claimed the last election in 2012 was rigged, and claims with certainty that the 2016 election on November 8th is going to be rigged, and that Republicans “better be careful.”
• In October 2016, Donald Trump claimed they were trying to rig the election at the polling booths, saying dead people were voting, illegal immigrants were voting, and that they were fighting in a rigged election.
• On November 27th, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that he would have won the popular vote against Hillary “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

From May 11th, 2017 to January 3rd, 2018, Trump created the Presidential Advisory commission on Election Integrity, also known as the Voter Fraud Commission. It requested an unusually invasive amount of voter data from the states, but all 50 states refused to comply. After Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap filed a lawsuit against the Republican members of the Commission for not sharing documents or scheduling information, the commission was disbanded by Trump. The Commission was not able to find any evidence of voter fraud.

2020 Election

• On April 7th, 2020, Donald Trump claims that there is voter fraud in the form of people filling out multiple ballots and dumping ballots for Trump, after claiming mail-in voting was okay when he did it, but not when other people do it.
• On May 20th, 2024, Donald Trump answered in a press briefing that “thousands and thousands” of mail-in ballots were fraudulently filled out.
• On May 24th, 2020, Donald Trump tweeted that the United States “cannot have Mail in Ballots,” saying it would be the “greatest Rigged Election in history.”
• On August 24th, 2020, Donald trump states that the only way they can lose the election is if it’s rigged and someone takes it from us.
• On September 23rd, 2020, Donald Trump would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, claiming that the mail-in ballots were fraudulent and out of control.
• On September 29th, 2020, Donald Trump claimed that mail-in ballots being sent out pre-emptively were all fraudulently done by the Democrats, and that Americans were going to see a “fraud like you’ve never seen.” He also claims that “we won’t know for months” for the counting of the mail-in ballots.

Trump fluidly switched between definitions when he claimed the election was “rigged,” meaning it could be officials rigging polls, ballot boxes being stuffed, ballots being not counted, boxes being tossed, vote totals being changed, etc…etc…

It’s important to note that while Donald Trump claims ahead of time that voter fraud would be rampant in 2020, he never actually gives a way to make mail-in ballots more secure, he simply advocates for the elimination of them altogether, repeatedly, because he knows they will favor Democratic voters. 

Donald Trump attempted to call the election early, on the night of, despite everyone across the nation knowing it would take some time to count the incoming mail-in ballots. He also falsely claimed he won many states by margins that were impossible to be overcome, despite it having been completely untrue, and continues to call the mail-in ballots fraudulent, claiming that he already won the election. On November 5th, the next morning, he went as far as to tweet”STOP THE COUNT!” so he wouldn’t lose his majority.

Dominion v. Fox News

In June of 2021, Dominion filed a complaint against Fox News, alleging that the company engaged in a widespread campaign of defamatory behavior towards Dominion in order to salvage its reputation among conservative media listeners. Dominion’s lawsuit accused Fox of lying on four separate claims:

1. Dominion committed election fraud by rigging the 2020 Presidential Election
2. Dominion’s software and algorithms manipulated vote counts in the 2020 Presidential Election
3. Dominion is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for the dictator Hugo Chávez; and
4. Dominion paid kickbacks to government officials who used its machines in the 2020 Presidential Election.

Factual Allegations

• Dominion was established in 2002 by CEO John Poulos and procured its first contract with New York state in July 2009. 
• After it became clear that Trump would lose into the election, on November 6th, Donald Trump began to complain that his lead had “mysteriously disappeared.”
• On November 7th, Fox projected Trump had lost the election.
• On November 8th, Fox invited Sidney Powell onto the Sunday Morning Futures show to discuss Dominion voting fraud.
  • Powell declared that there was “a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from We the People of the United States of America, to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, to manufacture votes for Joe Biden.” 
• …more to the complaint, I don’t have time to read through all of this right now, though.

Dominion’s motion for summary judgement contains many damming emails showing that Fox News was knowingly capitalizing on fraudulent election claims to win back their audience after election night

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 1

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 2

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 3

Election Night

The election occurred on November 3rd and went as everyone predicted, with Donald Trump initially having a large lead and then slowly losing it as mail-in ballots were counted as the night progressed.

At 11:20 PM, Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden, sending Donald Trump and his team into a fury. Jason Miller tweeted out, admonishing Fox News for calling the election early. Jared Kushner was also in contact with Rupert Murdoch as the night went on. At 2:30 AM the following morning, Trump told supporters “this is a fraud on the American public.” Trump said he wanted to go to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of ballots, then declared himself the winner of the election. Pence went up on stage afterwards, contradicting Trump and saying that, while he was sure they’d won the election, he would wait until every vote was counted.

Legal Challenges

In July of 2022, a collection of 8 different conservative judges, politicians and analysts published a report called “LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election.” In the report, they go through all 64 cases that the Trump campaign put forth to Judges, claiming that every case was without merit and affirming the results of the 2020 election.

LOST, NOT STOLEN, page 4

The Trump Campaign’s Court Cases

Quoting from LOST, NOT STOLEN:

“Of the 64 cases brought by Trump and his supporters, twenty were dismissed before a hearing on the merits, fourteen were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before a hearing on the merits, and 30 cases included a hearing on the merits. Only in one Pennsylvania case involving far too few votes to overturn the results did Trump and his supporters prevail.”

Other Court Cases

2000 Mules

On May 20th, 2022, well known far right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza published a film called “2000 Mules,” where they alleged, with no solid evidence, that Democrats had organized a sophisticated system of ballot harvesting across several states.

In October of 2022, Atlanta citizen Mark Andrews filed lawsuits for defamation, conspiracy and intrusion on seclusion. A state investigation found that he had not committed any of the crimes alleged about him in the film, and on May 31st, 2024, Salem Media Group settled with Andrews, releasing a public apology and taking down the film and book.

Trump’s Calls States to Change Votes

Donald Trump’s January 2nd, 2021 Call to Brad Raffensperger

(Trump made a phone call to the Election Investigator Frances Watson on December 23, 2020, repeating a lot of the false claims he’ll go on to repeat to Raffensperger later on.)

On January 2nd, 2024, Donald Trump (joined by trade advisor Peter Navarro, Justice Department official John Lott, law professor John C. Eastman, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Cleta Mitchell, Alex Kaufman, Kurt Hilbert, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows) called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (joined by Raffensperger’s chief of staff Jordan Fuchs and general counsel Ryan Germany) to discuss finding enough votes to win the election.

Trump claimed, with no evidence, that:

1. there were hundreds of thousands of signature forgeries
2. that 50’s of thousands of people had already been voted for
3. 4,502 people voted who were not on the voter registration roll
4. 18,000 people voted with vacant addresses
5. 900 voters who used a PO Box number
6. at least 18,000 voters counted multiple times by Ruby Freeman
7. the water main breaking disrupted the vote process for malfeasance
8. that boxes of faked votes were brought in to be counted
9. more and more dumb claims with absolutely zero evidence cited.

Trump continued to make accusations during the call, dismissing claims that he was simply getting these accusations from social media by countering that they were actually coming from “Trump media.” He also accuses Raffensperger of being criminally liable for not finding enough votes for Trump because they must have known about the voter fraud, and says that it would be a “big risk” for both of them if they weren’t able to flip the election in favor of Trump.

Trump says to Raffensperger: “I think it’s very dangerous for you to say that [there’s no criminality].” and alludes to him engaging in criminal behavior many times during the call.

Multiple times on the call Donald Trump implies that he will refuse to help in the future elections if Raffensperger won’t acquiesce to his demands for 11,000 votes. “I need 11,000 votes give me a break.”

Trump’s campaign launched lawsuits against the state to contest the results, but ended up voluntarily dismissing it the day before court.

Trump Pushing Knowingly False Claims

People Who Told Trump he Lost

”Black Box” Votes Hidden Under Table

Rudy Giuliani tweeted a heavily cut up video propagated by OAN that claimed boxes of illegitimately filled ballot boxes were being counted after election officials told counters to go home. Election officials investigated and released additional video and explanations showing that these claims were fabricated. Giuliani would later admit to lying in court about this case, claiming it was his 1st amendment right to lie. He would lose that case to the tune $148,000,000, and then have a bankruptcy case dismissed that he filed to avoid paying this debt due to lying about his assets.

False Elector Scheme

https://imgur.com/a/Jc2l3UU
https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1762175606312116667
https://web.archive.org/web/20201107181652/https:/twitter.com/BadgerPundit/status/1325140117497896966
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/politics/kenneth-chesebro-secret-twitter-account-kfile/index.html

The “Coup” Memos from Eastman

Pressuring Mike Pence

Pressuring Acting A.G. for False Election Claims

Events

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/pdf/GPO-J6-REPORT.pdf

Speech at the Ellipses

Riot at the Capitol

Ray Epps

Embedded Intelligence\

Trump’s Behavior During the Insurrection

https://x.com/keithboykin/status/1812558868184277419

Statements by Rioters During Interrogation

Outcome

Important Notes

Why would Democrats try to rig the election with both mail-in ballots AND with Dominion voting machines?

“I don’t expect you to do that,” President Trump responded. “Just saythe election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”151 PDF PAGE 412

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23731963-dominion_3-21-23_hearing_slides-used-at-hearing_redacted SYDNEY POWEL THROUGHLINE OF BULLSHIT P128

Rupert Murdoch, January 20th, 2021.
The more I think about McConnell’s remarks or complaint the more I agree.

Trump insisting on the election being stolen and convincing 251 of Americans was a huge
disservice to the country. Pretty much a crime. Inevitable it blew up Jan 6th

Best we don’t mention his name unless essential and certainly don’t support him.
We have to respect people of principle and if it comes to the Senate don’t take sides.

I know he is being over demonized, but he brought it on himself.

Can you think of a SINGLE example over the past 40+ years where Trump has admitted he has legitimately lost anything? The Emmys: Rigged; Lost 2016 Iowa Caucus: Fraud; Lost 2016 Popular Vote: Voter Fraud (even before the election, which he won?!); E Jean Carroll Case: Fake accusation (even after losing the first trial, and I’m waiting for Round 3); NY Trial: (criminal) Rigged (bnd civil); Golf against Tiger Woods (former #1 golf player): He says he won (he cheated); Golf against Phil Mickelson (former #2 golf player): Says he won (how is a 70-some year old obese man beating professional golfers?); Trump Golf Club Champion (20 times by 2019 and was this years the most improved player…after winning consecutive senior championships) Trump Airline: Great Deal; Trump Steaks: Greatest, Trump University: Great, he will win the lawsuits, and students will comeback; Trump Magazine: Great; Trump Wine: Largest Winery in the US (false); Bankruptcy: “Brilliant” (to get tax breaks). I honestly want to know what he is like playing Monopoly.

2022.12.022 - FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL

Composition

• Formation - Wikipedia
  • On May 19th, 2021, the House voted to form an independent bicameral commission to investigate the Jan 6th insurrection.
    • Vote passed 252-175 with 35 Republicans joining in favor.
  • Senate Republicans blocked the bicameral commission, leading to House Speaker Pelosi to appoint a select committee using only House members.
  • On June 30th, 2021, House Resolution 503 “Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on teh United States Capitol” passed the House 222-190. All Democrats and only two Republicans, Kinzinger and Cheney, voted in favor.
  • On July 1st, Pelosi appoints eight members, with Cheney being the sole Republican.
  • On July 19th, McCarthy suggests Jim Banks, Jim Jordan, Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls.
    • Banks, Jordan and Nehls voted to overturn the EC results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
    • Banks and Jordan signed onto the Supreme Court case Texas v. Pennsylvania to invalidate the ballots of voters in four states.
  • On July 21st, Pelosi announced that she would reject Jordan and Banks, but would accept the other three recommendations.
    • McCarthy said it was all or nothing, costing Republicans almost all of their representation on the January 6th Select Committee.
  • On July 25th, Pelosi announced her appointment of Adam Kinzinger to the committee.
    • Notably, Kinzinger was one of only ten House Republicans to vote for TRump’s second impeachment.
  • Members
    • BENNIE G. THOMPSON (D) Mississippi, Chairman
    • LIZ CHENEY (R) Wyoming, Vice Chair
    • ZOE LOFGREN (D) California
    • ADAM B. SCHIFF (D) California
    • PETE AGUILAR (D) California
    • STEPHANIE N. MURPHY (D) Florida
    • JAMIE RASKIN (D) Maryland
    • ELAINE G. LURIA (D) Virginia
    • ADAM KINZINGER (R) Illinois
  • Majority of the witnesses involved in the J6 Select Committee Report were Republicans.
    • Two of President Trump’s former Attorneys General, his former White House Counsel, numerous members of his White House staff, and the highest-ranking members of his 2020 election campaign, including his campaign manager and his campaign general counsel.

Sources 

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2. @realDonaldtrump, tweet claiming America wasn’t a Democracy after Obama won the election
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   1. 2016-02-03. Accessed 2024-07-19.
4. Fox News, “Trump: As a business guy, I can spot a rigged system” 
   1. 2016-04-16, Accessed 2024-07-18.
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9. @MSNBC, twitter video of Donald Trump talking about mail-in ballot fraud.
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10. @realDonldTraump, tweet claiming we shouldn’t do mail-in ballots.
    3. 2020-05-24. Accessed 2024-07-18.
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    1. 2020-09-23, Accessed 2024-07-18.
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    1. 2020-10-31, Accessed 2024-07-19.
17. The Guardian, “‘Blue shift’: why votes counted after election day skew to the Democrats”
    1. 2020-11-01, Accessed 2024-07-18.
18. Jason Miller tweet attacking Fox News for calling Arizona.
    1. 2020-11-03, Accessed 2024-07-19.
19. ABC News, “President Trump’s election night remarks”
    1. 2020-11-04, Accessed 2024-07-18.
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    1. 2020-11-04, Accessed 2024-07-18.
21. The New York Times, “Fox’s Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters”
    1. 2020-11-04, Accessed 2024-07-19.
22. C-SPAN, “President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence Election Night Remarks”
    1. 2020-11-04, Accessed 2024-07-20.
23. @realDonaldTrump, tweet to “STOP THE COUNT!”
    1. 2020-11-05, Accessed 2024-07-18.
24. Pew Research Center, “The voting experience in 2020”
    1. 2020-11-20, Accessed 2024-07-18.
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26. WSB-TV, “Georgia election officials shows frame-by-frame of State Farm Arena Election Night video | WSB-TV”
    1. 2020-12-05, Accessed 2024-07-20.
27. @RudyGiuliani tweet retweeting oan fake news about Georgia ballots.
    1. 2020-12-03, Accessed 2024-07-20.
28. Bannon’s War Room, “Ep 625: New Year, Old Fights (w/ Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn and John Eastman)”
    1. 2021-01-02, Accessed 2024-07-23.
29. CNN, “Pence ‘welcomes’ congressional Republicans’ bid to challenge electoral votes”
    1. 2021-01-03, Accessed 2024-07-23.
30. NBC News, “Full Phone Call: Trump Pressures Georgia Secretary of State To Recount Election Votes | NBC News”
    3. 2021-01-03, Accessed 2024-07-20.
31. Bloomberg Quicktale, “LIVE: Trump Stumps for Georgia Republicans David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler Ahead of Senate Runoff”
    1. 2021-01-04, Accessed 2024-07-25.
32. @meredithllee, tweet about Trump’s false response to a NYT story the prior day.
    1. 2021-01-05, Accessed 2024-07-25.
33. Georgia Secretary of State, “Trump Legal Team Folds”
    1. 2021-01-07, Accessed 2024-07-20.
34. American Oversight Press, “Audio: Recording of Trump Phone Call to Georgia Election Investigator”
    3. 2021-03-01, Accessed 2024-07-20.
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37. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN DIVISION, Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM
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41. CNN, “Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators”
    1. 2024-02-26, Accessed 2024-07-23.
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    1. 2024-04-15, Accessed 2024-07-20.
43. NPR, “Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology”
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Belligerents

1. Country/Faction 1
   1. Division of Country 1’s Forces (optional)
      1. Notable Leaders
      2. Strength in numbers

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1. Country/Faction 2
   1. Division of Country 2’s Forces (optional)
      1. Notable Leaders
      2. Strength in numbers

Casualties and losses

1. Country/Faction 1
   1. Deaths
   2. Wounded
   3. Imprisoned

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1. Country/Faction 2
   1. Deaths
   2. Wounded
   3. Imprisoned

Location

Causes

Undermining The Electoral Process

Donald Trump made statements about the election being rigged even prior to his 2016 election, and continually called for the complete and total ban on mail-in ballots. ABC News catalogueda lot of the false election claims, and I’ve included some below.

Foreknowledge of Disparate Attitudes Towards Mail-in Voting

10 states allowed early voting via mail as early as September for the 2020 election. Donald Trump was making multiple claims of voter fraud via mail-in ballots, which Democrats were known to utilize in greater numbers than Republicans, despite Trump having absolutely no evidence of said voter fraud and despite counting having not even yet begun and no numbers being published. 

Dominion v Fox News pages 18-19

Fox News was also complicit in the process, helping Trump fabricate and prepare to push lies in the event that he lost the election.

The Daily Beast, Fox News Pushes ‘Brain Room’ to Find Evidence for Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims, Insiders Say on October 31st, 2020

Some politicians, like Bernie Sanders, literally predicted (on October 23rd, 2020) the exact outcome of election night because it was already known that mail-in ballots might take a bit longer to count and they would likely dramatically favor Democrats. Sanders even predicted Trump trying to end the voting early.

A leaked audio recording from October 31st, 2020, of Steve Bannon shows him speaking about Trump’s plan to call the election early.

2012 Election

• On November 6th, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that people should “march on Washington” to protest the election results. A few minutes later, he claimed that America “is not a democracy.”

2016 Election

• In February 2016, Donald Trump claimed that Ted Cruz’s campaign rigged the Iowa Caucus.
• On April 16th, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that the Republican primaries were rigged and boss controlled. On that appearance that he references, he goes on to speak about how delegates are just bribed and paid off to vote for certain candidates.
• On August 1st, 2016, Donald Trump claimed the last election in 2012 was rigged, and claims with certainty that the 2016 election on November 8th is going to be rigged, and that Republicans “better be careful.”
• In October 2016, Donald Trump claimed they were trying to rig the election at the polling booths, saying dead people were voting, illegal immigrants were voting, and that they were fighting in a rigged election.
• On November 27th, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that he would have won the popular vote against Hillary “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

From May 11th, 2017 to January 3rd, 2018, Trump created the Presidential Advisory commission on Election Integrity, also known as the Voter Fraud Commission. It requested an unusually invasive amount of voter data from the states, but all 50 states refused to comply. After Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap filed a lawsuit against the Republican members of the Commission for not sharing documents or scheduling information, the commission was disbanded by Trump. The Commission was not able to find any evidence of voter fraud.

2020 Election

• On April 7th, 2020, Donald Trump claims that there is voter fraud in the form of people filling out multiple ballots and dumping ballots for Trump, after claiming mail-in voting was okay when he did it, but not when other people do it.
• On May 20th, 2024, Donald Trump answered in a press briefing that “thousands and thousands” of mail-in ballots were fraudulently filled out.
• On May 24th, 2020, Donald Trump tweeted that the United States “cannot have Mail in Ballots,” saying it would be the “greatest Rigged Election in history.”
• On August 24th, 2020, Donald trump states that the only way they can lose the election is if it’s rigged and someone takes it from us.
• On September 23rd, 2020, Donald Trump would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, claiming that the mail-in ballots were fraudulent and out of control.
• On September 29th, 2020, Donald Trump claimed that mail-in ballots being sent out pre-emptively were all fraudulently done by the Democrats, and that Americans were going to see a “fraud like you’ve never seen.” He also claims that “we won’t know for months” for the counting of the mail-in ballots.

Trump fluidly switched between definitions when he claimed the election was “rigged,” meaning it could be officials rigging polls, ballot boxes being stuffed, ballots being not counted, boxes being tossed, vote totals being changed, etc…etc…

It’s important to note that while Donald Trump claims ahead of time that voter fraud would be rampant in 2020, he never actually gives a way to make mail-in ballots more secure, he simply advocates for the elimination of them altogether, repeatedly, because he knows they will favor Democratic voters. 

Donald Trump attempted to call the election early, on the night of, despite everyone across the nation knowing it would take some time to count the incoming mail-in ballots. He also falsely claimed he won many states by margins that were impossible to be overcome, despite it having been completely untrue, and continues to call the mail-in ballots fraudulent, claiming that he already won the election. On November 5th, the next morning, he went as far as to tweet”STOP THE COUNT!” so he wouldn’t lose his majority.

Dominion v. Fox News

In June of 2021, Dominion filed a complaint against Fox News, alleging that the company engaged in a widespread campaign of defamatory behavior towards Dominion in order to salvage its reputation among conservative media listeners. Dominion’s lawsuit accused Fox of lying on four separate claims:

1. Dominion committed election fraud by rigging the 2020 Presidential Election
2. Dominion’s software and algorithms manipulated vote counts in the 2020 Presidential Election
3. Dominion is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for the dictator Hugo Chávez; and
4. Dominion paid kickbacks to government officials who used its machines in the 2020 Presidential Election.

Factual Allegations

• Dominion was established in 2002 by CEO John Poulos and procured its first contract with New York state in July 2009. 
• After it became clear that Trump would lose into the election, on November 6th, Donald Trump began to complain that his lead had “mysteriously disappeared.”
• On November 7th, Fox projected Trump had lost the election.
• On November 8th, Fox invited Sidney Powell onto the Sunday Morning Futures show to discuss Dominion voting fraud.
  • Powell declared that there was “a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from We the People of the United States of America, to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, to manufacture votes for Joe Biden.” 
• …more to the complaint, I don’t have time to read through all of this right now, though.

Dominion’s motion for summary judgement contains many damming emails showing that Fox News was knowingly capitalizing on fraudulent election claims to win back their audience after election night

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 1

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 2

Dominion v Fox Death Threat 3

Election Night

The election occurred on November 3rd and went as everyone predicted, with Donald Trump initially having a large lead and then slowly losing it as mail-in ballots were counted as the night progressed.

At 11:20 PM, Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden, sending Donald Trump and his team into a fury. Jason Miller tweeted out, admonishing Fox News for calling the election early. Jared Kushner was also in contact with Rupert Murdoch as the night went on. At 2:30 AM the following morning, Trump told supporters “this is a fraud on the American public.” Trump said he wanted to go to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of ballots, then declared himself the winner of the election. Pence went up on stage afterwards, contradicting Trump and saying that, while he was sure they’d won the election, he would wait until every vote was counted.

Legal Challenges

In July of 2022, a collection of 8 different conservative judges, politicians and analysts published a report called “LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election.” In the report, they go through all 64 cases that the Trump campaign put forth to Judges, claiming that every case was without merit and affirming the results of the 2020 election.

LOST, NOT STOLEN, page 4

The Trump Campaign’s Court Cases

Quoting from LOST, NOT STOLEN:

“Of the 64 cases brought by Trump and his supporters, twenty were dismissed before a hearing on the merits, fourteen were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before a hearing on the merits, and 30 cases included a hearing on the merits. Only in one Pennsylvania case involving far too few votes to overturn the results did Trump and his supporters prevail.”

Other Court Cases

2000 Mules

On May 20th, 2022, well known far right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza published a film called “2000 Mules,” where they alleged, with no solid evidence, that Democrats had organized a sophisticated system of ballot harvesting across several states.

In October of 2022, Atlanta citizen Mark Andrews filed lawsuits for defamation, conspiracy and intrusion on seclusion. A state investigation found that he had not committed any of the crimes alleged about him in the film, and on May 31st, 2024, Salem Media Group settled with Andrews, releasing a public apology and taking down the film and book.

Trump’s Calls States to Change Votes

Donald Trump’s January 2nd, 2021 Call to Brad Raffensperger

(Trump made a phone call to the Election Investigator Frances Watson on December 23, 2020, repeating a lot of the false claims he’ll go on to repeat to Raffensperger later on.)

On January 2nd, 2024, Donald Trump (joined by trade advisor Peter Navarro, Justice Department official John Lott, law professor John C. Eastman, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Cleta Mitchell, Alex Kaufman, Kurt Hilbert, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows) called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (joined by Raffensperger’s chief of staff Jordan Fuchs and general counsel Ryan Germany) to discuss finding enough votes to win the election.

Trump claimed, with no evidence, that:

1. there were hundreds of thousands of signature forgeries
2. that 50’s of thousands of people had already been voted for
3. 4,502 people voted who were not on the voter registration roll
4. 18,000 people voted with vacant addresses
5. 900 voters who used a PO Box number
6. at least 18,000 voters counted multiple times by Ruby Freeman
7. the water main breaking disrupted the vote process for malfeasance
8. that boxes of faked votes were brought in to be counted
9. more and more dumb claims with absolutely zero evidence cited.

Trump continued to make accusations during the call, dismissing claims that he was simply getting these accusations from social media by countering that they were actually coming from “Trump media.” He also accuses Raffensperger of being criminally liable for not finding enough votes for Trump because they must have known about the voter fraud, and says that it would be a “big risk” for both of them if they weren’t able to flip the election in favor of Trump.

Trump says to Raffensperger: “I think it’s very dangerous for you to say that [there’s no criminality].” and alludes to him engaging in criminal behavior many times during the call.

Multiple times on the call Donald Trump implies that he will refuse to help in the future elections if Raffensperger won’t acquiesce to his demands for 11,000 votes. “I need 11,000 votes give me a break.”

Trump’s campaign launched lawsuits against the state to contest the results, but ended up voluntarily dismissing it the day before court.

Trump Pushing Knowingly False Claims

Propagating Knowingly False Claims

All of these are taken from the January 6th report, starting on page 48:

• A District Court declared that Trump and Eastman knowingly filed bogus court cases in order to further fight over the certification of the election and to obstruct the January 6th Committee from obtaining evidence of any conspiracy.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN DIVISION, Case No. 8:22-cv-00099-DOC-DFM, filed October 19th, 2022

People Who Told Trump he Lost

1. All of these people were trusted by Trump to investigate claims of election fraud:
   1. Bill Stepien, Trump’s National Field Director for his campaign, a lifelong Republican, who also worked on Giuliana’s presidential campaign in 2007-2008, told Trump he had lost on election night.
   2. Chris Miller, Trump’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, attested that Matt Oczkowski, Trump’s campaign’s top data scientist, told him on election night that he was going to lose.
   3. William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General of the Department of Justice, told Trump repeatedly that he’d investigated and found absolutely no signs of voter fraud.
   4. Jeffry Rosen, Trump’s acting Attorney General of the Department of Justice, called or met with Trump almost every day to tell him there was no election fraud.
   5. Richard Donoghue, Trump’s acting deputy attorney general, told Trump the information he was getting was false.
   6. Chris Stirewalt, former Fox New political editor, said that Trump had no chance of winning the election after the votes were counted.
   7. Jason Miller, the Trump Campaign Senior Advisor, informed Trump several times that there wasn’t enough evidence of fraud to overturn the election.
      1. “When our research and campaign legal team can’t back up any of the claims made by our Elite Strike Force Legal Team, you can see why we’re 0-32 on our cases. I’ll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it’s tough to own any of this when it’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.”
   8. Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President, said there was never evidence of widespread fraud, and that he believed there was no good evidence of enough fraud to overturn the election.
   9. Matthew Morgan, the General Counsel of Trump’s campaign, claimed that the Trump staff, including him and Marc Short and Greg Jacob, didn’t believe there was sufficient evidence of voter fraud.
   10. Brad Raffensperger, the Republican Georgia Secretary of State, denied every single claim that Trump made about election Fraud.
   11. Brian Kemp, the Republican Governor of Georgia, denied that the election was stolen in Georgia.
   12. A group of prominent Republicans (4 Federal Judges, 2 former Senators, a lawyer and someone who worked on Capitol Hill for 20 years) published a conservative report, titled Lost, Not Stolen, which claimed 
       1. The report concludes “that Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case.” President Trump and his legal allies “failed because of a lack of evidence and not because of erroneous rulings or unfair judges … . In many cases, after making extravagant claims of wrongdoing, Trump’s legal representatives showed up in court or state proceedings empty-handed, and then returned to their rallies and media campaigns to repeat the same unsupported claims.”
   13. Eleven of the judges who ruled against Trump were Trump federal judiciary appointments.
       1. One of those Trump nominees, Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, rejected an appeal by the Trump Campaign claiming that Pennsylvania officials “did not undertake any meaningful effort” to fight illegal absentee ballots and uneven treatment of voters across counties. Judge Bibas wrote in his decision that “calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.” Another Trump nominee, Judge Brett Ludwig of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, ruled against President Trump’s lawsuit alleging that the result was skewed by illegal procedures that governed drop boxes, ballot address information, and individuals who claimed“ indefinitely confined” status to vote from home. Judge Ludwig wrote in his decision, that “this Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits” because the procedures used “do not remotely rise to the level” of breaking Wisconsin’s election rules.
   14. Ivanka and Kushner, Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, prepared to move right after the election, with Ivanka stating she believed Barr’s testimony.
   15. Alex Cannon, Trump’s campaign lawyer, said he told advisers that there was no election fraud.
   16. Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s counselor, wrote in her published memoir that she had told Trump he lost.
       1. “The team had failed on November 3, and they failed again afterward. By not confronting the candidate with the grim reality of his situation, that the proof had not surfaced to support the claims, they denied him the evidence he sought and the respect he was due. Instead supplicant after sycophant after showman genuflected in front of the Resolute Desk and promised the president goods they could not deliver.”
   17. Ken Block, a data mining firm hired by Donald Trump to find evidence of voter fraud, said they found very little evidence of voter fraud, and that it was equal on the Democratic and Republican side.

”Black Box” Votes Hidden Under Table in Georgia

Rudy Giuliani tweeted a heavily cut up video propagated by OAN that claimed boxes of illegitimately filled ballot boxes were being counted after election officials told counters to go home. Election officials investigated and released additional video and explanations showing that these claims were fabricated. Giuliani would later admit to lying in court about this case, claiming it was his 1st amendment right to lie. He would lose that case to the tune $148,000,000, and then have a bankruptcy case dismissed that he filed to avoid paying this debt due to lying about his assets.

False Elector Scheme

Kenneth Chesebro’s Initial Memos

Kenneth Chesebro was an attorney from Wisconsin who began working with the Trump campaign at the behest of Jim Troupis, another lawyer for Trump’s campaign, around November 9th, 2020. He was responsible for the creation of the first few memos outlining a potential scheme that Trump could utilize to challenge the certification of the electoral vote on January 6th.

Chesebro believed that if people gathered and falsely attested to being legitimate state electors and transmitted said votes on December 14th to Congress (and NARA) that it would keep Trump’s chances alive to win the election should a court rule in his favor from between December 14th, the date that the electors in all 50 states certified their votes for president, and January 6th, the date that Congress was scheduled to count the electorate slates.

Ultimately there were 7 different states whom were selected to send false slates of electorates out from, here are those states and the accompanying state laws that dictate how slates of electors are legally supposed to be chosen:

1. Arizona
   1. Arizona law [states]((https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00212.htm):
      1. A. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1956, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a number of presidential electors equal to the number of United States senators and representatives in Congress from this state.
      2. B. After the secretary of state issues the statewide canvass containing the results of a presidential election, the presidential electors of this state shall cast their electoral college votes for the candidate for president and the candidate for vice president who jointly received the highest number of votes in this state as prescribed in the canvass.
   2. The false Arizona slate of electors were not elected and did not cast their ballots in concordance with the popular vote reported by the state.
2. Georgia
   1. Georgia laws states:
      1. The presidential electors chosen pursuant to Code Section 21-2-10 shall assemble at the seat of government of this state at 12:00 Noon of the day which is, or may be, directed by the Congress of the United States and shall then and there perform the duties required of them by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
   2. The false electors did not meat in the seat of government, and were not chosen by the state legislature.
3. Michigan
   1. Michigan law states:
      1. The electors of President and Vice President shall convene in the senate chamber at the capitol of this state at 2 p.m., eastern standard time, on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December following the elector’s election. At any time before receiving the certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors from the governor or within 48 hours thereafter, an elector may resign by submitting the elector’s written and verified resignation to the governor…
   2. The false slates didn’t meet in the senate chambers in the capitol.
4. Nevada
   1. Nevada law states:
      1. The Secretary of State shall preside at the meeting of presidential electors held pursuant to 3 U.S.C. § 7. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 298.075, the nominees for presidential elector whose candidates for President and Vice President receive the highest number of votes in this State at the general election are the presidential electors.
   2. The Secretary of State was obviously not present when the Nevada false electorscertified and transmitted their vote.
5. Pennsylvania
   1. Pennsylvania law states:
      1. The electors chosen, as aforesaid, shall assemble at the seat of government of this Commonwealth, at 12 o’clock noon of the day which is, or may be, directed by the Congress of the United States, and shall then and there perform the duties enjoined upon them by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
   2. The false slates didn’t meet at the seat of government.
6. Wisconsin
   1. Wisconsin law states:
      1. The electors for president and vice president shall meet at the state capitol following the presidential election at 12:00 noon the first Monday after the 2nd Wednesday in December.
   2. The false electors were not able to meet in the state capitol.
7. New Mexico
   1. New Mexico law states:
      1. B. The presidential electors shall be nominated by the state convention according to the rules of that party on file with the secretary of state.
      2. C. Upon the nomination of presidential electors, the chair and secretary of the convention shall certify the names and addresses of the nominees not less than sixty-three days prior to the election to the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall record the nominees’ names in the secretary’s office as the presidential elector nominees of that party.
   2. The false electors were not nominated by the state convention, nor did the chair or secretary of the convention certify the names and addresses of the nominees.

January 6th Select Committee, page 378

Even Chesebro admitted his plan was dicey at best in his December 9th Memo:

“In conclusion, it appears that voting by an alternate slate of electors is unproblematic in Arizona and Wisconsin; slightly problematic in Michigan (requiring access to the senate chamber); somewhat dicey in Georgia and Pennsylvania in the event that one or more electors don’t attend (require gubernatorial ratification of alternates); and very problematic in Nevada (given the role accorded to the Secretary of State).”

On December 13th, Chesebro lays out to Eastman how Pence could declare the ECA unconstitutional and disrupt the expected electoral vote count proceeding to allow Trump to win the election. He says that Pence should break from the stated procedures of the Electoral Count Act, claiming it to be unconstitutional (in violation of the 12th amendment). Once Pence has recused himself from his role in the senate, some other Republican leader will take over and act “confused” about how to read which slate of electors is legitimate.

“He then opens the two envelopes from Arizona, and announces that he cannot and will not, at least as of that date, count any electoral votes from Arizona because there are two slates of votes, and it is clear that the Arizona courts did not give a full and fair opportunity for review of election irregularities, in violation of due process.”

Chesebro would then go on to outline ways in which the states contesting their electoral votes being counted could recertify new electoral slates in the future, either by “rerunning the election, or engaging in adequate judicial review, or having its legislature appoint electors.”

Chesebro’s December 13th Memo

Chesebro’s secret Twitter account was leaked in which he’d made multiple tweetsdetailing how Trump could win the election via Pence overturning the vote while the electoral votes were being counted.

Donald Trump’s Direct Involvement

On December 6th, Mark Meadows forwarded the November 18th Memo from Chesebro to Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller. Meadows and Miller began to work to gather the 79 needed Republican electors on the November ballot in the 7 states they planned to have transmit false elector votes to Congress.

Trump Campaign Associate General Counsel Joshua Findlay told the January 6th Select Committee ““it was my understanding that the President made this decision” to pursue the electorate scheme by December 7th or 8th. Findlay claimed that the campaign’s general counsel, Matthew Morgan directed the campaign lawyers to “look into electors in these potential litigation States.”

In deposition testimony provided to the Jan 6th Committee, RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said that on or around December 12th, Trump, along with Eastman, called her to stress the importance of gathering alternate slates of electors.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney, J6 Report deposition, page 9

Testimony from Special Assistant to the President, Cassidy Hutchinson, also confirms that Trump knew of the legal dubiousness of this elector plot, especially after most of the lawsuit had failed by mid December and his legal staff on his campaign began to quit and distance themselves from the campaign:

“Committee Staff: [T]o be clear, did you hear the White House Counsel’s Office say that this plan to have alternate electors meet and cast votes for Donald Trump in States that he had lost was not legally sound? 

Hutchinson: Yes, sir.”

Many Doubted Alternate Electors Legitimacy

From the J6 Committee Report, page 378:

“Even so, 14 of the original Republicans who had been listed as electoral college nominees on the November ballot bowed out when the fake Trump electors gathered in December. Former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land declined to attend, which the State’s GOP chair, Laura Cox, told the Select Committee was because “I think she just said she was uncomfortable with the whole thing” and that she “has her own beliefs.” A senior advisor for the Pennsylvania GOP said that Chairman Tabas “did not serve as an elector because Joe Biden won the election and it was Biden’s electors that were certified.” Former U.S. Representative Tom Marino (R-PA) said he backed out because “I’m a constitutionalist,” and “as a former prosecutor, when the attorney general says that he’s not finding anything there, that’s good enough for me.” The other eleven dropouts included a Georgia State lawmaker, a former State party chair from New Mexico, two former State party chairs from Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania’s RNC national committeewoman.

Other participants asserted that they would have had much greater concerns if the Trump team had been more forthcoming about how the fake electoral votes would be used. The Trump Campaign’s director of election day operations in Georgia told the Select Committee that “I absolutely would not have” wanted to participate in organizing the Trump team’s fake electors in Georgia “had I known that the three main lawyers for the campaign that I’d spoken to in the past and were leading up were not on board.” He said he felt “angry” because “no one really cared if—if people were potentially putting themselves in jeopardy” by doing this, and “we were just . . .useful idiots or rubes at that point.””

The “Coup” Memos from Eastman

Eastman sent out two memos, one on December 23rd, and another one “war gaming the alternatives” on January 3, detailing how to get Pence to contradict the Electoral Count Act and either choose to count the false electors or force the house delegation, where the Republicans held a majority, to cast a vote for president (ideally choosing to reseat Donald Trump).

Pressuring Mike Pence

On January 2nd, Pence went over the procedures of the certification of the election, as set out in the Electoral Count Act, with his counsel, Greg Jacob, Chief of Staff Marc Short, and the Trump Campaign’s General Counsel Matt Morgan. Marc gave a statement to CNN intending to clarify that the Vice President does not have the power to unilaterally change the election outcome, attempting to clarify as concisely as possible to the public as to the role of the Vice President on January 6th, and that only lawful objections to the election should be entertained.

On that same day, Steve Bannon’s show, “Bannon’s War Room,” went live with an episodefeaturing Rudy Giuliani, Trump Campaign Strategic Advisor Boris Epshteyn , and John Eastman. They repeated many of the same false claims, both about voter fraud existing across multiple states, and Eastman continued to falsely assert that Pence has the authority to contravene the Electoral Count Act and subvert the expected process on January 6th to certify the election. He also claims that Congress can make a decision on their own about which slates of electors to accept, hoping that the states will accept all of the Republican slates due to the false claims that were continuing to be pushed concerning voter fraud. Eastman said that the outcome of the election comes down to the “courage and spine” of Mike Pence.

In his January 3rd Memo, where Eastman goes over several ways for Trump to remain president, he makes it clear that the only way Trump can possibly steal the election is if Pence acts in a way contrary to the ECA.

On January 4th, Trump and Eastman hold a meeting with Pence to pressure him to throw out the election. During the meeting, Eastman acknowledges that there are several foundational problems with the plan: the plan violates the Electoral Count Act which calls for all vote certificates to be “acted upon,” with objections being “finally disposed of,” whereas Eastman wanted Pence to set these aside and not resolve them. Secondly, the plot called for an extended break, when the ECA only specified two very short breaks to verify the submitted votes. Third and finally, the alternate slates of electors were not legitimate, as they had received no certificates of ascertainments from any state governors and no state legislatures were willing to go along with their plot. Pence found the arguments unconvincing, and was steadfast in his adherence to his proper role for January 6th.

On the night of January 4th, Trump began to ramp up the public pressure against Pence, calling for him to “come through for us” in a Georgia rally.

Donald Trump in a January 4th, 2021 Georgia Rally

On January 5th, another meeting was between Eastman and Greg Jacob and Marc Short. Jacob recorded Eastman’s request that the Vice President needed to unilaterally reject the electors. Trump made multiple tweets that morning, one claiming that two senators would join in his plot in the senate to “#stopthesteal”, and another claiming that “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” applying more pressure to Pence.

At Trump’s request, him and Pence had another meeting that same day. Although the J6 Committee was unable to inquire about the exact details of the meeting, Marc Short seems to suggest that it was concerning Trump requesting Pence once again toss the votes during the certification. That night, in response to a NYT article leaking the earlier conversation, Donald Trump put out a statement containing multiple lies, the principle one being that him and Pence were “in total agreement” about what Pence could do on January 6th.

Mike Pence on Fox News, August 2nd, 2023

The same night, Steven Bannon went live with another episode of the War Room, applying even greater pressure to Pence while claiming “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this: All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s going to be quick … It’s the fog of war.” Bannon also discussed putting Sen. Grassley’s number on the screen, and suggested they encourage users at TheDonald.win to contact the Senator.

Pence ultimately carried out his Constitutional duty as Vice President and certified the vote for Biden on January 6th.

Pressuring Acting A.G. for False Election Claims

Barr’s Final Days

President Trump began making claims of voter fraud on the same night of the election before all of the ballots had even been counted. On November 9th, two days after Biden was declared the winner, Barr authorized widespread investigations by the DoJ and FBI into allegations of voter fraud. On November 23rd, Trump had a meeting with Barr, trying to figure out why the DoJ didn’t have any strong cases yet for voter fraud, with Barr explaining that all of the accusations that had been made were without merit. On November 29th, Trump falsely claimed on Fox News that the FBI and DoJ were “missing in action” and that he would “stay out of it” despite him interfering at multiple levels of federal and state government in investigations into voter fraud.

On December 1st, Barr invited an AP reporter for an interview about the ongoing DoJ and FBI investigations, stating that they’d found absolutely nothing credible up to that point. Trump fought with Barr over the following two weeks, desperately attempting to get him to substantiate any kind of voter fraud. Repeating the same false claims to Barr that he had been over the last month, nothing was ever substantiate, with Barr eventually turning in his resignation on December 14th.

Bill Barr, January 6th Committee Deposition

Clark Introduced to Donald Trump

On December 15th, Trump had a meeting with his new Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, Pat Cipollone, Mark Meadows, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli, and Acting General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Mizelle. This meeting was largely focused on a report on Dominion machine fraud by the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), which Barr had had the DoJ investigate and found no evidence supporting. 

On December 22nd, Representative Scott Perry introduced Donald Trump to Jeffery Clark Acting Head of the Civil Division and Head of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice. On December 24th, Trump mentioned Clark’s name to Rosen, which Rosen felt was strange because he had no idea why Trump would be communicating with Clark, and Clark communicating with Trump would be against DoJ policies.

On the 27th, President Trump had another phone call with Rosen and Donoghue in which he continued to make false claim after false claim, with Donoghue debunking each and every claim. The Georgia claims about Ruby, the Pennsylvania claims of the 205,000 supposed additional votes, the ASOG report, etc…etc…Eventually during this phone call, Rosen said to Trump that he needed to understand “understand that the DOJ can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. It doesn’t work that way.”

Trump responded to Rosen, saying “I don’t expect you to do that, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.” Donoghue explained in his deposition that this was “an exact quote from the President.”

Richard Donoghue, Transcribed Interview of Richard Peter Donoghue, (Oct. 1, 2023)

Trump brought up that people had told him that “Jeff Clark is great,” and that he “should put him in,” laying the groundwork for the events to come.

Clark’s Letter

On December 28th, 2020, Clark had Ken Klukowski, a senior counsel under Clark in the DoJ’s Civil Division, draft a letter to the Georgia Governor and Legislature alleging the DoJ had “identified significant concerns
that may a have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.” Everything in the letter, however, was a lie; the DoJ had zero reason to suspect any voter fraud at this point in time, and every investigation thus far has been a dead end.

Clark emailed Rosen and Donoghue, asking for a promotion so his title would look more authoritative on the letter, as well as requesting both of them to sign the letter.

Jeffrey Clark, in an email to Rosen and Donoghue, December 28th, 2020

Donoghue responded, saying “there is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this,” with Rosen agreeing in a follow-up email.

Over the following days, Clark continues to speak with Trump, as well as Donoghue and Rosen, eventually making it clear that Trump wants appoint him to being the Acting Attorney General, replacing Rosen as Rosen was unwilling to cosign Trump’s fraud while Clark was willing to play ball.

The January 3rd Oval Office Meeting

With tensions building in the White House between Trump and his DoJ, events would finally culminate in a dramatic meeting in the Oval Office on January 3rd.

Rosen requested a meeting at 6:15 PM with Donald Trump thorugh Mark Meadows on the 3rd. Before the meeting, Rosen and Donoghue discussed the potential leadership change in the DoJ with Cipollone and Pat Philbin, who both opposed the change in leadership. Rosen and Donoghue had previously had a conference call where almost every Assistant Attorney General agreed they would resign if Rosen were removed from office and replaced with Clark.

Clark made an impassioned argument for why he should be made the new Attorney General, but every person present in the room confirmed to Trump that they would resign (along with hundreds of others in the DoJ) if Trump actually appointed him to the role.

Ultimately, Trump was too scared by the threat of mass resignations to push through with Clark’s appointment, despite Clark’s pleas otherwise.

Events

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5eWiVJtVubbA122gu4XGshGmPlrTmRiiKbmoytBofs/edit?pli=1&gid=2054751229#gid=2054751229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfLbrUa5Ng

The January 6th Rally

Motivation and Purpose of the Protest

Donald Trump hyped his supporters up for a large protest on January 6th, the day that the electoral vote would be certified, weeks before the actual event itself. The purpose of the protest was clearly aimed at protesting the certification of the election, with the goal of halting (or at least delaying) the certification. Trump continued to deny the results of the election and accused the media and political establishment of fighting against him. He tweeted for weeks to apply pressure as well to news networks and lawmakers to back his coup attempt in Congress.

December 19th, 2020

• Trump tweets out a 36-page report alleging election fraud that would “swing victory to Trump,” and tells people that there will be a “Big Protest in D.C.’ that “will be wild!”
• Trump tweets out that Russia and China may have been involved in hacking the voting machines during the election.
• Trump tweets out “the lie of the year is that Joe Biden won!”

December 20th, 2020

• Trump tweets out “GREATEST ELECTION FRAUD IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY!!!”
• Trump retweeted a tweet about GA Senator David Perdue about “fighting for Donald Trump” to challenge the Electoral College on January 6th.
• Trump retweeted a tweet claiming Senator-elect Tuberville “will challenge Electoral College” on January 6th.

December 21st, 2020

• Trump tweets out his disappointment in Brian Hagedorn, a Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice, and expresses his anger at his ruling against him in a case despite Trump endorsing him in his election.
• Trump tweets out a call for Conservatives to “call on state legislators to appoint new electors.”

December 22nd, 2020

• Trump tweets out another lie, “THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS IN THE SWING STATES LATE IN THE EVENING. IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION!!!”
• Trump tweets out attacking John Thune over his recent statements that the Senate shouldn’t try to overturn the election, and pressuring the Republicans in the Senate to follow through on January 6th with the plan to overturn the election.
• Trump tweets out a video from OAN of Newt Gingrich saying he won’t accept Joe Biden as president, exclaiming “Newt Gingrich gets it, we are going to WIN!”
• Trump tweets out a video he recorded where he repeats many fraudulent election claims, claiming he “won big.”

December 23rd, 2020

• Trump uploads a video describing how China is secretly controlling movies, the media and the Democratic party. The video also alleges that the only trustworthy media is OAN, Newsmax and the Epoch Times, far right, alternative media news outlets that had all uniformly helped Trump push false claims of voter fraud.
• Trump retweeted a tweet with an attached image called “Operation “PENCE” Card”, which contained false information about how Pence could reject “fraudulent” electors.

December 24th, 2020

• Trump tweets out and reminds 8 Senators that he helped them win their elections, encouraging them to “fight” over the stolen election.
• Trump tweets out “VOTER FRAUD IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY, IT IS A FACT!!!”

December 26th, 2020

• Trump retweets a video from Ali Alexander with Congressman Andy Biggs as he talks about fighting on January 6th with the hashtags “DoNotCertify” and “JAN6.”
• Trump tweets out that the “2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud [was] the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history,” saying he’ll “see everyone in D.C. on January 6th.”
• Trump retweets Greg Kelly who claims “A COUP was waged against” Donald Trump, and then implores several senators to “STEP FORWARD at the MOMENT OF TRUTH.”
• Trump tweets out that it’s “Time for Republican Senators to steo up and fight for the Presidency.”

December 27th, 2020

• Trump tweets out that he’ll “see you in Washington, DC, on January 6th.”

December 29th, 2020

• Trump tweets out to remind Republicans in Congress once again that he helped many of them win their elections.

December 30th, 2020

• Trump tweets out “JANUARY SIXTH, SEE YOU IN DC!”
• Trump tweets out an article by Mark Levin about Congress contesting the election results on January 6th.

December 31st, 2020

• Trump tweets out two different OAN videos, making more false claims about election fraud, with one explicitly referencing the electorate plot to overthrow the election, including the plan to steal the election in the House.

January 1st, 2021

• Trump retweets an account exclaiming “The calvary is coming” on “JANUARY 6TH”, with the hashtags “MarchForTrump” and “StopTheSteal” with the slogan “Be there, will be wild”
• Trump tweets out that a “BIG Protest Rally” in D.C. will take place on January 6th with the attached slogan “StopTheSteal!”
• Trump tweets out a thank you to Madison Cawthorn, a Representative who claims he will object to the 2020 election results.
• Trump retweets the same OAN video falsely claiming that multiple slates of electors are available to choose from on January 6th and that Republicans should steal the election in the House.

January 2nd, 2021

• Trump tweets out more threatening messages against politicians who oppose him, focusing once more on Georgia.
• Trump tweets out his thanks for the 11 senators (Cruz, Johnson, Lankford, Daines, Kennedy, Blackburn, Braun, Lummis, Marshall, Hagerty, Tuberville and Hawley) who have agreed to help him oppose the election on January 6th.
• Trump tweets out that the election was “An attempt to steal a landslide win. Can’t let it happen!”
• Trump tweets out a video, saying “This could be the biggest event in Washington D.C. History” to encourage people to join the January 6th protest.

January 3rd, 2021

• Trump tweets a Fox News video where Judge Jeanine details how the Republicans could steal the election by rejecting the electoral vote. “With 3% of the population fighting against tyranny [under Washington]…to many January 6th is such a moment.”
• Trump retweets an account falsely claiming that Pence can delay the inauguration date.
• Trump retweets Congress Owens statement “If you only do what’s easy, you will seldom do what’s right.”
• Trump retweets an account, exclaiming “We The People Refuse To Concede To A Fraudulent Election!!”.
• Trump retweets another endorsement of the January 6th protest with the hashtags “SaveAmerica” “DoNotCertify” “MillionMagaMarch” and “StopTheSteal.”
• Trump retweets Mike Lindell, who is “honored to be invited to speak at the biggest event in DC history!” and who believes that Donald Trump “will be our President for the next 4 years!!!”
• Trump tweets out a Breitbart article of a call he made encouraging State Legislators to decertify their electors.

January 4th, 2021

• Trump tweets out “How can you certify an election when the numbers being certified are verifiably WRONG. You will see the real numbers tonight during my speech, but especially on JANUARY 6th.”
• Trump retweets a tweet for the January 6th march that uses the hashtags “MarchForTrump” “StopTheSteal” and “DoNotCertify”.
• Trump tweets out a quote from Senator Ron Johnson “We are not acting to thwart the Democratic process, we are acting to protect it.”
• Trump tweets out “The “Surrender Caucus” within the Republican Party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective “guardians” of our Nation, who were willing to accept the certification of fraudulent presidential numbers!”

January 5th, 2021

• Trump tweets out “Pleased to announce that @KLoeffler & @sendavidperdue have just joined our great # StopTheSteal group of Senators. They will fight the ridiculous Electoral College Certification of Biden. How do you certify numbers that have now proven to be wrong and, in many cases, fraudulent!""
• Trump tweets out “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” This is not within the powers of the Vice President.
• Trump tweets out “I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D.C. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.”

January 6th, 2021

• Trump tweets out “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!"" None of this is true, Pence did not have the power to reject the vote.
• Trump tweets out “States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” None of this is true, Pence did not have the power to reject the vote.
• Trump tweets out “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, OUR COUNTRY, NEEDS THE PRESIDENCY MORE THAN EVER BEFORE - THE POWER OF THE VETO. STAY STRONG!”

Speech at the Ellipse

Riot at the Capitol

Ray Epps

Embedded Intelligence

Proud Boys Convictions

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1eewbdm/the_14_j6ers_convicted_of_seditionist_conspiracy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/JamiePullDatUp/comments/1ambwrx/announcing_the_debunking_master_list/

Trump’s Behavior During the Insurrection

https://x.com/keithboykin/status/1812558868184277419

Statements by Rioters During Interrogation

Outcome

Important Notes

Why would Democrats try to rig the election with both mail-in ballots AND with Dominion voting machines?

“I don’t expect you to do that,” President Trump responded. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”151 PDF PAGE 412

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23731963-dominion_3-21-23_hearing_slides-used-at-hearing_redacted SYDNEY POWEL THROUGHLINE OF BULLSHIT P128

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=IVTrS-hjjLE&feature=youtu.be

Rupert Murdoch, January 20th, 2021.
The more I think about McConnell’s remarks or complaint the more I agree.

Trump insisting on the election being stolen and convincing 251 of Americans was a huge
disservice to the country. Pretty much a crime. Inevitable it blew up Jan 6th

Best we don’t mention his name unless essential and certainly don’t support him.
We have to respect people of principle and if it comes to the Senate don’t take sides.

I know he is being over demonized, but he brought it on himself.

Can you think of a SINGLE example over the past 40+ years where Trump has admitted he has legitimately lost anything? The Emmys: Rigged; Lost 2016 Iowa Caucus: Fraud; Lost 2016 Popular Vote: Voter Fraud (even before the election, which he won?!); E Jean Carroll Case: Fake accusation (even after losing the first trial, and I’m waiting for Round 3); NY Trial: (criminal) Rigged (bnd civil); Golf against Tiger Woods (former #1 golf player): He says he won (he cheated); Golf against Phil Mickelson (former #2 golf player): Says he won (how is a 70-some year old obese man beating professional golfers?); Trump Golf Club Champion (20 times by 2019 and was this years the most improved player…after winning consecutive senior championships) Trump Airline: Great Deal; Trump Steaks: Greatest, Trump University: Great, he will win the lawsuits, and students will comeback; Trump Magazine: Great; Trump Wine: Largest Winery in the US (false); Bankruptcy: “Brilliant” (to get tax breaks). I honestly want to know what he is like playing Monopoly.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FINAL-Day-2-Transcript-Aug-16-2022.pdf page 23
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Couy-Griffin-Sept.-6-2022-1.pdf page 34
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/griffin-naacp-new-mexico-state-conference-brief-aug-23-2022.pdf page 11