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In other words, who was in on the scheme to deny American Voters our essential American right to participate in our own self-determined destiny?
Here’s one “inside guy” promoting the “Alternate Electors” scheme, shortly after President Biden was the officially the winner of the of the Election according to the certified results from all 50 states:
Stephen Miller: 'Alternate' electors will keep Trump election challenge alive
by Brett Samuels, The Hill — Dec 14, 2020
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[Stephen] Miller, appearing on Fox News as a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, brushed off the idea that the Electoral College vote marked any kind of end to the process.
"The only date in the Constitution is Jan. 20. So we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election," Miller said on "Fox & Friends."
"As we speak, today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to Congress," he continued. "This will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open. That means that if we win these cases in the courts, that we can direct that the alternate state of electors be certified."
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Miller indicated that Trump supporters will act as "alternates" in a handful of contested states, including Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, to submit their own, unofficial results. Should the Trump campaign succeed in overturning the outcome in any of those states, Miller said, the alternate electors could then be recognized by Congress.
Nothing in the Constitution or state electoral processes allows for such an "alternate" slate of electors.
Miller also raised the idea of state legislatures stepping in to overturn the results or of Congress interceding.
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Alternate electors: The latest far-fetched Trump plan to overturn the election, explained
by Andrew Prokop, Vox — Dec 14, 2020
[...] [Senior White House adviser Stephen] Miller said. “This will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open.”
And Trump’s chosen electors did indeed meet in states including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan to cast their votes for Trump — though some involved tried to downplay the significance of this move, calling it merely a legal formality.
[...] Despite Trump’s efforts to pressure GOP leaders in key states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, Biden’s wins were certified on schedule — and no state legislature tried to appoint Trump electors instead.
According to Miller, though, Trump’s team is trying to ignore this impediment by having Trump’s chosen electors in states Biden won meet on their own authority and cast their electoral votes for Trump, despite having no actual authority to do so. These electors would effectively just be some people, not the certified electors for states.
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Here’s are a couple of “inside guys” promoting the “Alternate Electors” scheme, as explained by one of them, who is hawking his book to cash-in on his collusion:
Trump Adviser Worried He’s Not Getting Enough Credit for Trying to Ruin American Democracy
by Tim Dickinson, RollingStone — Dec 28, 2021
[...] [Trump economic adviser Peter] Navarro recently published a memoir, and is now pushing out interviews to reporters, bragging of a scheme he dreamed up with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to overturn the results of the 2020 election. They even had a cringey name for it: the Green Bay Sweep.
The plot sought to keep Trump in office by exerting maximum pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of the Electoral College votes from pivotal swing states, by drawing out the proceedings on national television for as long as 24 hours. “It was a perfect plan,” Navarro told the Daily Beast. “We had over 100 congressmen committed to it.”
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The goal was [...] to “put the certification of the election on ice for at least another several weeks” while Congress and the state legislatures pursued the “fraud” allegations. [...]
Regardless, Jan. 6 began auspiciously — to Navarro’s view of things. He told the Daily Beast that Trump was “on board with the strategy,” which he writes also had the backing of “more than 100” members of Congress. Navarro elaborated that the plan started off “perfectly” as Congress opened the proceedings to count Electoral College votes. Rep. Paul Gosar objected to results from his home state of Arizona, seconded by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas — an action that received standing applause from GOP colleagues in the chamber.
Navarro writes that the insurrection at the Capitol actually undermined the Green Bay Sweep by disrupting the official proceedings. [...]
What does Vince Lombardi and the 'Green Bay sweep' have to do with the Jan. 6 attack on the capitol?
by JR Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Yahoo.com -- Jan 5, 2022
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[Former Trump White House adviser Peter] Navarro said he cooked up the plot with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, naming it after the play that helped the 1960s Green Bay Packers pile up five NFL championships.
Navarro feels that Pence, described as the "quarterback" in the scenario, wasn't fully on board and didn't "hand off" the opportunity to state legislatures. The members of Congress continually challenging state results served as the metaphorical blockers.
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Here’s are a couple of “inside guys” promoting the “Alternate Electors” scheme, to rile up the mob their national audience, to show up in D.C. — and to take back — what they wholehearted sold as — rightfully theirs:
WAR ROOM: PANDEMIC — Week 82 — Aired On: 01/02/2021
[2nd Video down the page: Episode 625] www.dailykos.com
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[Steve] Bannon: We turn now to one of the great thinkers about the Constitution. And also a man of action. He's the president's -- Rudy Giuliani runs the overall -- he's the president’s lawyer, he runs the overall operation over there. But John Eastman is a Constitutional Lawyer that has been putting up these lawsuits.
John, first off this, this argument of what's actually happening at the state basis, and what happened in the Constitution -- that you and I happened to be on a call last night. And you were walking people through it. It was so brilliant.
Could you just walk people through what the framework is for this week [1st week of January 2021], and why you think -- and you've been arguing for it. And putting these briefings and these suits out there. That this is just outrageous that were going down this path?
[John] Eastman: Sure I mean the U.S. Constitution very clearly assigns the power of selecting the manner for choosing Electors, to the legislatures of the state. For many years in our nation's history, the legislatures just picked the Presidential Electors themselves.
But, but, modernly, and for about the last century -- or century and a half in some cases -- ah, the legislatures have said: were going do this by popular vote. But were going to do it in accord with Election Laws, that we pass.
Election Laws requiring signature verification on Absentee Ballots. Election Laws require you to prove Voter ID. All of those things designed to minimize the risk of fraud, in how we conduct the Election.
And in a number of states, in most egregiously in Georgia, and Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, partisan elected officials -- and in some cases partisan judicial officials -- ignored or altered those legislative commands. And conducted the Election in violation of the manner that the legislature had set out.
That means the Election was illegally conducted.
And you don't even have to get into all the number of Ballots affected. It was illegally conducted.
And I give you I think the most egregious example: in Georgia, they have a provision, that if you have evidence of fraud, or or irregularities -- or evidence that a sufficient number of illegally Ballots have be cast; or legal Ballots not properly counted -- you can bring and Election Contest within 5 days after the conclusion of the Recount.
They did that on December 4th in Georgia. And here we are a month later, and we still don't even have a Judge assigned to hear that case. And yet the Governor went ahead, 3 days after that challenge was brought, and certified the Electors. Completely ignoring the statutory mechanism, set out for resolving Election disputes.
And that means we have a failed Election.
And there's another provision in Federal Law, 3 United States Code Section 2, that says when the state has failed to choose Electors on the date assigned by Congress, the power to choose Electors devolves back to the legislature. Because they have the ultimate Constitutional authority here.
And we've got a lot of legislatures that are afraid to exercise that Constitutional power, because they think that they have to get permission from the Governor, to have their session. Or they've got to get permission from the Courts, to do anything.
No! This is a power the Constitution assigns exclusively to those state legislatures. And they need to act.
Because what we have here is massive evidence that this Election was at least conducted illegally -- ah, you know in violation of the states' statutes. But lots of evidence as well, that as a result of that illegal conduct -- removing checks against fraud, in the Absentee Ballot process -- that we have Absentee fraud. More than enough to effect the outcome of the Election.
Ah, and I think it's the duty of these legislatures to fix this egregious conduct. And make sure that were not putting in the White House -- some guy that didn't get elected.
Bannon: This is what the Constitutional crisis is. I want to be very specific and drill down to this. It's going to be historic, this, we are entering into one of the most ah, important Constitutional crisis the country has ever had.
Your theory of the case, essentially if you've got, if you did, if they give you an expedited hearing; if you went through all this process, and you're filing other suits that are just as powerful -- at the end of day, isn't what the Supreme Court gonna say -- and look I'm not a Constitutional guy -- but aren't they say:
'Hey John great argument, ah were not going to overturn the Biden Electors. Were gonna flip this whole thing back to the state legislatures. And they've got to either reaffirm -- they've gotta stand up.'
Isn't this all get back to the state legislatures? And particularly in these 5 states?
Eastman: There there's 2 places it gets back to: it get back to the state legislatures, because they're process was not followed. And it was deliberately not followed. This was a concerted effort to thwart the checks, the anti-fraud provisions they have put into place. And so it devolved back to the state legislatures
And the only other place it devolves back to, is the Congress. And particularly the Vice President, who will sit in presiding over the Joint-session of Congress, beginning January 6th, to count the Ballots. And they got, they got multiple slates of Ballots, from 7 states.
They [Congress] got to decide, which, which is the Ballots slate to count. Ah, ah, I think they have that authority to make that determination on their own. But it would certainly be -- help immensely, if the legislatures in the states looked at what happened in their own state; and weigh in, exercising their power under the U.S. Constitution.
And here's the biggest problem: We haven't had this happen -- you'll know there was one minor event in 1960 out of Hawaii -- we haven't had it happen on the scale that we have now -- with multiple slates from multiple states, since 1876.
They don't understand that the power they have to exercise here, is not derived from their State Constitution. It's derived from the Federal Constitution.
So restrictions on that power, like we can only meet with the permissions of the Governor of our state -- restrictions on that power are pre-empted by the Federal Constitution. They have this power directly from the the Federal Constitution.
And it's there for a reason. Because it's much easier to corrupt a single executive official, than it was to corrupt the entire legislature to have an outcome. And they wanted the branch of government, closest to the people, which is the legislatures, to be the one that has the ultimate say about it here.
And these guys need to understand the Constitutional authority, and ah, their Constitutional duty -- to put a stop to this egregious violation of Law that has occurred.
Bannon: The Louie Gomer suit is essentially saying that the Electoral Count Act of 1877 is unconstitutional. You got to go back to the Constitution, and there the president of the Senate, the Vice President of the United States is hard-wired in. And he is actually the decision-maker. He's not ministerial. Is that correct?
Eastman: Right ...
Bannon: And last night the ruling was so important, because the Judge didn't want to touch the merits, right? Once again, you got 'no standing'.
Eastman: Right.
Bannon: Are we to assume that this is gonna be a climactic battle -- that's gonna take place this week -- about the very question of the Constitutionality of the the Electoral Count Act of 1877?
Eastman: Well I think a lot of that depends on the courage and the spine of the individuals involved. But look, ah, I love Representative Gomer. I think he's terrific.
Bannon: Can we ask you to stay through the commercial break -- I know you're swamped --
Eastman: Sure.
Bannon: But here's the reason: you just said 'the courage and the spine' -- we know Louie Gomer has got all the courage -- He's pure honey-badger. Judge Gomer from down Texas-One. That is guy, is tough as Texas Boot-leather, OK? Are you talking on the other side of the football -- would you be, that would be a nice way to say: 'A guy named Mike, Vice President Mike Pence?'
Eastman: Yes.
Bannon: I don't want to put you on the spot like that, John. John you're too good a man. {Laugher ...}
John Eastman, one of the most decent guys I've ever met. So hell, were going to take a short commercial break. We'll return with the President's Constitutional Lawyer, John Eastman.
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John Eastman, Trump’s “constitutional lawyer” and one of the architects of the Green Bay Sweep plot, recently hid behind the Fifth Amendment, because testifying to the January 6 Committee would only to serve to confirm and expose his own illegal activities in the Electoral overturn attempt.
Seeing that Eastman knew about “7 states who had multiple slates” that the Congress would have to “decide which slate to count” — the guy is probably is as guilty compromised as it gets. [The Maddow Team has only found 5 of them, so far.]
How did he know about those seven states submitting fraudulent, unofficial, unauthorized alternate slates of electors, anyhow?
Unless that was the purpose of the conference “call from the night before,” that ‘Coach Bannon’ was gloating about? The call only “laid out the framework” for the Insurrection week … how convenient.
How incriminating. Who else was on that call? How many congressmen? How many coup plotters? … How many “fake electors”? … were dialed-in, put on mute by the promoters …?
Did any of them record the call? If so, they should seriously think about turning the recording over to the authorities, unless they want to have to rely on the 5th too, to protect them from the ever-widening Insurrection investigation. (They didn’t initiate that Call, did they?)
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The Green Bay Sweep plot didn’t happen in a vacuum — at least 100 congressmen were in on the scheme: To halt the ceremonial certification of the certified slates of Biden electors, and submit their own fraudulent pretend-electors instead.
Those dupes even signed there names on the dotted line, for the overturn scheme. Poor schmucks.
Question is, who convinced them to do so — to risk everything for a con-artist, who will turn on them, at the drop of a subpoena?
Inquiring investigators at the DOJ would really like to hear their stories … while the ‘listening window’ is still open. Hurry, act now — while supplies last!
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