Step-by-step. recounting ballots may become revising history in 2022, as the 2020 coup plot and 2021 insurrection gets more gravitas. And a “booby trap” for 2024, as the GOP tries to make the math work, because Biden would have won a 2020 majority even with Eastman’s math applied. That doesn’t mean that manipulation of the Electoral Count Act won’t happen again, because of its roots in back-room dealing in the Hayes-Tilden election.
“John Eastman’s view is that the legislature has absolute power in terms of picking presidential electors,” elections expert Richard L. Hasen told the WaPo.
That would give political bad actors "a path to steal an election" by “ignoring the will of the voters” or their own prior rules for picking electors, Hasen said, and Trump loyalists are already running for positions of authority over state elections, and that could put them in place to enact Eastman's scheme.
“This shows the country one more strategic booby trap that was improvised by Trump’s team that can sit there for use by bad-faith actors in future elections,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the select committee.
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The transcript shows Rhodes alluding to the QAnon conspiracy theory, that the world is ruled by a Satanic cabal of cannibalistic child sex traffickers.
"So the only way to really stop them is for Trump to, first of all, refuse to concede. The second thing he's got to do is he has got to use his authority as commander-in-chief to do two critical things. One is to declassify all of the dirty secrets and do a massive data dump," Rhodes said on the "Oath Keepers National Call."
"And to do that, it can't be the normal channels with the CIA, FBI, et cetera. (Indiscernible). So what he needs to do is have the military do is to seize those buildings, seize all those records, seize all the databases, and turn them over to military intelligence. Let them take care of the declassification with all of those orders," he explained. "He should use his, you know, U.S. Special Forces, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, you know, use [United States Special Operations Command], as backed up by his Marine Raiders and, you know, whatever else he's got, 82nd Airborne."
Rhodes suggested that the U.S. government had sex tapes of members of Congress and that he could use the videos to get Congress to keep Trump in office despite the fact he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
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(2021) ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of his victory margin in those states.
The cases could not throw the outcome into question even if all the potentially fraudulent votes were for Biden, which they were not, and even if those ballots were actually counted, which in most cases they were not.
The review also showed no collusion intended to rig the voting. Virtually every case was based on an individual acting alone to cast additional ballots.
The findings build on a mountain of other evidence that the election wasn’t rigged, including verification of the results by Republican governors.
The AP review, a process that took months and encompassed more than 300 local election offices, is one the most comprehensive examinations of suspected voter fraud in last year’s presidential election. It relies on information collected at the local level, where officials must reconcile their ballots and account for discrepancies, and includes a handful of separate cases cited by secretaries of state and state attorneys general.
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