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Despite the apparent late arrival of the Meadows Powerpoint — as a seemingly “last ditch” effort to subvert the Certified Election results of Nov 2020 — it seems its core ideas were circulating widely among the plotters, in the months prior to events of Jan 6th.
First, the rationale for holding Meadows in Contempt of Congress:
Mark Meadows PowerPoint Plan to Overturn Election Results Revealed
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The existence of the PowerPoint presentation appeared to have been first referenced in a letter from the House committee investigating the January 6 riot to Meadows' lawyer, saying that they had "no choice" but to move forward contempt charges against Trump's former chief of staff after he refused to appear for a second scheduled deposition on Wednesday.
The letter confirmed that Meadows had previously been cooperating with the investigation and provided documents as requested. Meadows' lawyers are also reported to have withheld several hundred additional documents and more than 1,000 text messages from the committee while citing executive privilege, a defense that has been thrown out by District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.
"Despite your very broad claims of privilege, Mr. Meadows has also produced documents that you apparently agree are relevant and not protected by any privilege at all," the letter to attorney George Terwilliger adds.
"Those documents include: a November 7, 2020, email discussing the appointment of alternate slates of electors as part of a 'direct and collateral attack' after the election; a January 5, 2021, email regarding a 38-page PowerPoint briefing titled 'Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN' that was to be provided 'on the hill.'"
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Apparently, Meadows was planning to send the Powerpoint to Congress the day before, or the day of the Election Certification on Jan 6, 2021. As if the Party Captives of Trump needed anymore encouragement to vote against the peaceful transfer of power. (It would be interesting to learn if IT was actually sent; and to whom?)
Yet despite that last minute effort at subversion, Stephen Miller was on Fox about 2 weeks earlier promoting the very same plan. Boasting that their Alternate Electors went so far as to “cast their votes for Trump” … everything was falling into line:
Alternate electors: The latest far-fetched Trump plan to overturn the election, explained
by Andrew Prokop, Vox.com — Dec 20, 2020
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Yet the president seems to have other ideas. White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said on Fox Monday that Trump’s team planned to support an “alternate” set of electors in key states Biden won, which Trump is continuing to baselessly dispute.
“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,” 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.
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Yet Miller wasn’t the only “conspirator” promoting the Alternate Electors take-over plan. It seems that Giuliani and Powell and Flynn, were ‘all singing from the same Powerpoint’ ...
Explosive PowerPoint presentation detailing plan to overturn election for Trump discovered by Jan 6 committee
The actions recommended in the 36-page PowerPoint presentation are similar to what Trump allies were demanding of a top Defence Department official in the days leading up to the 6 January insurrection
by Andrew Feinberg, Independent.uk, Washington, DC — Dec 10, 2021
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The presentation lays out a theory identical to that which was offered up by Trump campaign attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell at a now-infamous press conference held at Republican National Committee headquarters on 19 November 2020.
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The presentation also makes recommendations that match up with drastic demands made to a Defence Department official by another erstwhile ally of Mr Trump, ex-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Several slides lay out a scenario under which ballots in all 50 states would have been seized by the US Marshals Service and held for a 50-state hand recount conducted by “select federalized National Guard units” under supervision of a “trusted lead counter” to be appointed by Mr Trump.
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Even though key aspects of plan were dreamt up by Trump Lawyer John (I plead the Fifth) Eastman; and in turn, were used in an attempt to coerce the Acting AG to act on it (by DECLARE A VOTING EMERGENCY), strenuously by Trump flunky Jeffrey (I too plead the Fifth) Clark — they weren’t rogue players …
It seems like that the entire Command Center team was in on it — in on the Trump hostile America-takeover plan …
Too bad whoever was in charge of fabricating the bald-face lies — weren’t better Fact-Checkers, or were even the slightest bit knowledgeable about Election Vote processing. The Mail-in Ballots weren’t fraudulent — they were authorized by the states, due to the COVID crisis. (Remember?)
Oh and the key-fracture in their crackpot plan — that China owned the Voting Machine Companies and were secretly “flipping the votes” remotely — a LIE that launched a million autocratic foot-soldiers ...
Too bad that those “fabricators” kind of got their Stock-Exchange symbols mixed up — Oh My. (My money’s on Rudy and Lindell on a bender one night — trying to “finally prove their conspiracy to the rest of the world” — with the BEST-est PRESENTATION EVER!@. You’ll see. Refill, anyone? )
Real Fact-checkers however, make mince-meat of their hair-brained scheme (as well as dozens of Court dismissals across the land):
Fact check: Claim of Chinese investment in Dominion Voting Systems confuses UBS subsidiaries — Jan 23, 2021
www.usatoday.com/...
Our rating: False
A claim stating China invested $400 million in Dominion Voting Systems is FALSE, based on our research. The source of the claim, which is unclear, confused New York-based UBS Securities Co. LLC with Beijing-based UBS Securities Co. Ltd. Further, the U.S.-based bank brokered an exchange of securities between institutional investors and private equity firm Staple Street Capital III L.P., but it did not invest in the company.
Whoopsie. Who says a little wine helps with the creative process?
They probably have never met Trump’s cracked Legal Team. What a mockery of Justice they have made. America would be wise to deal with them swiftly — or we too, will end up in the history’s failed-experiment bin.
We’ve been warned. Of, By and For the People — is what’s at stake.
ALL the People — not just the chosen few.
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