It’s not yet fixed, Trump could still win in 2024 and “get out of jail free” much like a hope that even declaring candidacy earlier would deter the DoJ from prosecuting him. New cases before SCOTUS could support a theory of “independent state legislatures” that would make swing states a recurring problem in state and local corruption.
In the ECA’s continuing ambiguity, coup plotters like John Eastman and Mark Meadows saw the potential of the elector-swap scheme as a means to keep Trump in office. Even Chuck Grassley knew why he was substituting for Mike Pence on 6 January 2021.
One piece of evidence among so many others was the 38 minute live-streamed broadcast of the Nevada GOP fraudulent electoral college signing ceremony. Another was the group of fake electors in Michigan trying to bum-rush the state police at the door.
It's pretty clear that Trump understands the presidency to be a "get out of jail free" card.
John Eastman, the constitutional scholar most responsible for the plot to have Mike Pence single-handedly reject the electoral college votes on January 6th, also appeared at a hearing and told Georgia officials that they had the power to simply appoint new electors for Donald Trump, which is, of course, crazy. Ellis wrote some memos passing on the same rationales and she and Deason spoke at the same hearing. Chesbro is alleged to have worked with a local GOP chairman to get fake electors to meet secretly in the state capitol. Last, but not least, Sen. Graham called up Georgia's Secretary of State twice to see if there wasn't some way they could throw out absentee votes for Biden.
Trump himself wasn't subpoenaed but since Raffensperger has reportedly already testified and they may have introduced the audio recording of Trump attempting to coerce him into "finding" one more vote than he needed to overturn the election, perhaps it's unnecessary. There's plenty of evidence of his attempts to strong-arm Georgia officials into cheating on his behalf without hearing a word from him.
These subpoenas come on the heels of a flurry of activity in recent days by the Justice Department in which John Eastman and former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark were served search warrants and various GOP activists and officials around the country who were involved in the fake elector scheme were served with federal subpoenas.
The fake elector scheme is of particular interest to the feds for the simple reason that there is a paper trail showing that in Wisconsin, Nevada Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan they signed certificates which claimed they were their states' "duly appointed electors." (In two other states, someone had the presence of mind to add language which said those votes would only be counted if the courts determined that the original count was invalid.) According to various legal observers, these false statements could easily lead to charges of defrauding the United States.
They tried to fraudulently cast votes in the electoral college. It truly is the most egregious example of election fraud in U.S. history. The irony of that is so thick you can only cut through it with a chainsaw.
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But as the state's electors cast their vote for Biden on Dec. 14, members of the GOP held a live-streamed event (the video has been deleted) casting their own votes, reports KLAS-TV, Las Vegas
Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald has been drawn further into the Justice Department’s investigation into a bogus electors scheme tied to the 2020 presidential race, a knowledgeable source said.
FBI agents seized McDonald’s cellphone on Wednesday under a court-approved search warrant, and one day later he was served with a federal grand jury subpoena for documents.
The subpoena seeks records of any communications with top political advisers of former President Donald Trump, the source said. Those associates are alleged to have participated in a conspiracy to block Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.
The list of names on the subpoena include Trump lawyers Rudy Guiliani and John Eastman, who have come under scrutiny by both the Justice Department and a House select committee investigating the efforts to prevent Congress from declaring Biden the winner on Jan. 6, 2021. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol that day, delaying the process.
McDonald, who has a couple of weeks to provide the documents to the government, is among a half-dozen Nevada Republicans who participated in the December 2020 signing of alternate electoral vote certificates in the presidential race.
The Justice Department also subpoenaed records this week from the other Republican electors, the source said.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington D.C., which is spearheading the criminal investigation, has declined comment. So has McDonald’s Las Vegas lawyer Richard Wright.
Illegitimate electors from Nevada and six other states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all sent certificates to Washington. Biden won all seven states.
Federal agents in recent days also served subpoenas on the Republican Party chairmen of Arizona and Georgia, according to the Associated Press.
The scheme is alleged to have been part of the overall effort to prevent a peaceful transition of power after Biden was elected president. The alternate electoral slates stemmed from unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
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Every single deal I looked at is ripe for investigation.
In Indonesia, he is partnering with the theatrically corrupt Hary Tanoe.
In the Philippines, he partnered with deeply corrupt and violent men.
His Trump Vancouver and Toronto projects were shocking.
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What I did report in depth was beyond imagination.
Nobody has truly taken in that Trump KNOWINGLY participated in an Azerbaijani project that was almost certainly money-laundering for Iran's Revolutionary Guard. (adamd.cc/azer)
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In Republic of Georgia, he worked with the folks who were almost certainly part of the largest bank fraud/money laundering scam ever known (adamd.cc/batumi).
Not to mention the Trump Moscow insanity.
I could have done more. But a real investigation would look like the J6 Committee: a concentrated effort with real staff and subpoena power (such as it is).
I feel confident that it would reveal what we already know: a decades-long grift by mediocre people.
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While the general outline will not surprise anyone--can you believe he allowed $-laundering through his casinos?--the specific details will be crucial for us all to know.
That's what we're seeing with J6.
I don't know who is going to do it. I can't alone.
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At various points, I tried to put together journalist teams, from TNY, WaPo, WNYC, ProPublica, but it's very hard to get over institutional resistance to collaboration.
I even pitched some rich donors on funding this project, hiring a team of …
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reporters, FBI and DOJ vets, and others.
But I made no headway.
The general view has been: oh, everyone knows he's corrupt. His supporters don't mind.
Yes. They know the fact. But the details matter.
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Spelling it out, clearly, factually, powerfully matters.
At this point, it's not just about electoral politics.
We need the full picture to understand America. Decades from now, historians will be furious that nobody got the details while the perpetrators were alive.
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I'm no idea what to do. I have no idea who can take this on.
I do feel like I've done a B/B- job of trying to make this happen and I'm out of ideas.
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