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Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.

So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to the nation’s capital, relying on a haphazard chain of couriers, as well as help from two Republicans in Congress, to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification.

The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.

The new details provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the chaotic last-minute effort to keep Donald Trump in office. The fake electors scheme features prominently in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment against the former president, and some of the officials who were involved have spoken to Smith’s investigators.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I hope this is true so I can use it the next time my dad goes on some diatribe about how the democrats are ruining the country or how he couldn’t vote for any other than Trump in good faith.

If this is true, everyone who continues to support him is outright against our country.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think this is gonna change a single MAGA mind? Your dad will just put his fingers in his ears and chant fake news.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My brother, a Canadian who is socially liberal, economically conservative, and virtually apolitical thinks the fake elector thing is bs.

He doesn't care if it did or didn't happen.

I am not saying this to contradict you. I am supportive of your point. This is unlikely to even remote reach most people in a meaningful way, let alone die hard Trump fans that somehow think he's a virile, brave, genius business person with big hands and an animal musk that Larry from Three's Company would envy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

🎵 Come and knock on our door... (Come and knock on our door) We've been waiting for you.... (We've been waiting for you)

Thanks for putting it in my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

we can't just let it be words.... RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!

https://piped.video/watch?v=WfuTipCqs4A

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (45 children)

It's just brain washing. They keep saying the Democrats are ruining the country and if you don't vote for trump you won't have a country. They say it over and over nonstop until people believe it. They say it on Fox News they say it on tweeter. And they encourage their peers to say it. It's insane that it works so easily. I'm appalled and amazed at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you click the article, you can hear recordings of this happening and read the emails where they plan it.

It's definitely true. Clear, unambiguous language is used throughout all evidence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Audio recordings don’t mean shit to these fucks. They’ll just grab it by the pussy and toss it into their basket of deplorables where some, I assume, are good. The whole thing will blow over by Easter.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

That was the case even before this news.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Your dad is a total loss, bruv. Sorry - that’s just how it is.