From The New York Times:
Previously undisclosed emails provide an inside look at the increasingly desperate and often slapdash efforts by advisers to President Donald J. Trump to reverse his election defeat in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack, including acknowledgments that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up to its billing as “fake.”
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In emails reviewed by The New York Times and authenticated by people who had worked with the Trump campaign at the time, one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word “fake” to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome. And lawyers working on the proposal made clear they knew that the pro-Trump electors they were putting forward might not hold up to legal scrutiny.
“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted,” Jack Wilenchik, a Phoenix-based lawyer who helped organize the pro-Trump electors in Arizona, wrote in a Dec. 8, 2020, email to Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for the Trump campaign.
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According to the article, this Wilenchik stooge wrote in an ensuing email that perhaps “alternative” would be a better word than “fake”, followed by a nudge-nudge-wink-wink smiley face emoji. Egads, these people are such traitorous monsters. And thank goodness, incompetent, to boot.
It may come as little surprise that Wilenchik was also Sherriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyer. That’s surely how he landed the fake elector gig.
This latest obviously does not look good for TFG and his dubious claim that he really thought he had won in 2020. It is well past indictment time for the lot of them.