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.
It’s oddly pleasing that the slowdown in mail caused him pain/inconvenience.
caused by none other than his own appointee DeJoy, whose entire goal in the USPS is to dismantle it and privatize it… talk about reaping what you sow lol
Yet he’s still holding the same position for some reason… its baffling he hasnt been replaced
The person who could replace him is a Democrat. Now watch the excuses flow.
Actually, Biden can’t directly appoint a new Postmaster General. He CAN, however, replace some of the board members that have that ability, though, which he has absolutely no valid reason not to do.
So in other words, he can do what is needed to fire DeJoy, but has chosen not to. The single extra step involved is not a reason not to, and satisfies no one who isn’t already seeking excuses.
Biden is in a position to replace him. He won’t.
So in other words, he can do what is needed to fire DeJoy, but has chosen not to.
Exactly.
Biden is in a position to replace him. He won’t.
Preaching to the choir, my man. I wasn’t disagreeing so much as correcting a detail of your otherwise accurate take 🙂
Reports are the DeJoy and Biden are working really well together. Kind of fucked up, but better than before.
Seems dangerous AF to keep that duplicitous fucker around heading into the next election
DeJoy has his own shipping company as a competitor to the USPS.
Biden can only appoint board members when the term expires of an existing board member… He has appointed a few and they currently hold a majority but haven’t yet acted.
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
Reminder that Trump’s Postmaster General sabotaged the post office’s handling capacity in order to interfere with absentee voting.
Yeah how come that everyone already has forgotten about that one? I remember people having problems with receiving critical medication (and that was just a ‘side effect’) because of this yet nobody’s talking about it anymore
One of my biggest let downs with Biden is that he didn’t fire that DeJoy asshole in the first week. I get that his team doesn’t think he has authority, but they know there’s a reasonable argument that they do. They should just fire his ass and let it play out, the other side certainly would.
The other side literally did that for a position they had no legal argument for until SCOTUS invented it for them.
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This man should not be able to run at all lol.
He should be allowed to run … for one hour a day in a special side yard away from the gen pop.
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Maine has entered the chat?
Not even in 2016, but DEFINITELY not in 2024.
Unfortunately, I think SCOTUS will let him run. After all, Trump owns the majority of the judges.
I’m going to need all you libtards to show me where on the constitution it says that crimes are illegal or that presidents can’t commit a lil treason every now and then
Also, what’s taking so long to throw this shitbag in jail already
If SCOTUS rules that sitting presidents are immune from all crimes I want biden to just fucking chainsaw the cheeto in the face. Maybe that’d be a big enough object lesson for maga zombies, but probably not even then.
They’ve got quite the conundrum on their hands. Do they affirm the power of states and the presidency, and strengthen Democrats? Or do they weaken the power of states and the presidency, and weaken Republicans and Trump’s position? Or do they try to have the best of both worlds, and deepen their reputation as corrupt and become even more highly unpopular?
I hope they’re really frustrated about this.
This feels like the democratic equivalent of putting out a flaming bag of dog shit.
Everyone keeps talking about how Biden will likely win against Trump. I don’t disagree. Most of my concern is if Trump is allowed to run just how much more brazen him and his team will be.
Not to mention how dangerous his supporters may become. Cults aren’t known for their logical and clear understanding.
The worst part, is the states that have proposed blocking trump from the ballot aren’t really swing states, so it will just embolden his supporters if he wins to be like “they tried to cheat and still lost!”
Like, a state like Tennessee could not include Biden on the ballots and it wouldn’t change the outcome of the presidential election with how the electoral college votes are calculated.
It could change the math for primaries, though.
Sure but this time the National Guard’s reins aren’t held by someone hoping it succeeds. They’re going to need a lot more violence to get past security this time.
The cult failed even when Trump had power from within the White House and a corrupt US Attorney General. Much harder now when everyone is on guard and he has no executive power, fortunately.
2020 was far more risky than 2024 in my opinion.
Or for quietly calming down. They always seem to come to a head
Hope that those with ties to this attempted insurrection get called for being traitors and be at least, banned yo get any work in government
Treason!
Close, sedition.
I think sending them through the mail actually bumps it up to treason.
Nah, it’s still sedition in the mail
It’s involving Russia that made it treason, but I don’t expect that to get legal acknowledgement
Mike Pence is a national hero. he knew about these and said he wouldn’t accept them even if delivered. he stood strong when thousands outside wanted to lynch him. As much as I don’t agree with him, he is a true patriot. I don’t think he gets enough credit. without his backbone we would be in an even crazier place.
Darth Vader didn’t stop being a villain just because he killed the Emperor.
Pence did one good thing after years of killing Younglings.
Do I despise Pence for all the shit he did to enable Trump? Yep. Do I applaud him for doing the right thing when it REALLY mattered? You better bet I do. If he kept doing the right thing and spoke truth to power in the face of repercussions I’d think he’d be entitled to be given the respect he’d deserve. People can change and we have to respect it when they do. Do I think Pence would keep doing the right thing? I have no idea but I wouldn’t bet on it. Would he be a better president than Trump? Well just being a functioning adult would qualify. Would that make him a good president? I doubt it. Everybody applauds Reagan but in hindsight he did almost irreparable harm to this country. Some would disagree with me and that’s their right to be wrong 😋
Hero is too strong a word. It took far too long for him to tell anyone what happened and he hasn’t once called out Trump for being a traitor or trying to overthrow our democracy. During the Republican debates this year he agreed he’d endorse the Republican candidate regardless of who it was, including Trump.
Pence could have been a hero but he’s tried too hard to stay in the middle and not offend the MAGAts when we’ve really needed the truth.
Pence just had a few more braincells than the rest in knowing the consequences of this action versus the probability of it actually succeeding. He’s no hero. He’s no Patriot. As always, he is a self-serving sociopath.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s all it takes. For all the stories and myths we have celebrating selfless heroism, perhaps it’s often well placed self preservation.
Hero is the wrong word. He did the bare minimum as to not be a traitor. Which is something I guess given the state of the GOP.
Such a low bar to clear. Don’t commit treason and follow a would be dictator, and have people call you a hero. Sheesh
LMAO
Just toss it on the giant pile of smoking guns.
Knowing this country, the pile is next to a school and in danger of collapsing like coal ash.
Of course the pile of guns is next to a school in the US.
HEY NOW, my high school’s armory was kept QUITE organized, thank you very much!
Watch how many people not named Trump go down for this.
Ah, another great example of projection.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The emails and recordings also indicate that a top Trump campaign lawyer was part of 11th-hour discussions about delivering the fake elector certificates to Pence, potentially undercutting his testimony to the House select committee that investigated January 6 that he had passed off responsibility and didn’t want to put the former vice president in a difficult spot.
CNN has obtained audio of Chesebro’s recent interview with Michigan investigators, and exclusively reported earlier this month that he also told them about a December 2020 Oval Office meeting where he briefed Trump about the fake electors plan and how it ties into January 6.
Chesebro also discussed the episode with Wisconsin investigators last week when he sat for an interview with the attorney general’s office as part of a separate state probe into the fake electors plot, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The emails show that Brown and the Wisconsin GOP official were instructed to meet Chesebro at the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington to hand off the fake elector certificates.
The details from Chesebro put a finer point on how members of Congress, including a sitting US senator, were involved in making sure the electoral certificates for Trump ended up in Pence’s hands.
The January 6 committee first revealed last year Johnson’s involvement in trying unsuccessfully to deliver the fake elector certificates to Pence, who announced on the morning of the joint session that it would be unconstitutional to do what Trump wanted and unilaterally overturn the election results.
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