Mark Meadows possessed 'insane' blueprint for military seizing ballots after Trump's 2020 defeat

[Nevilledog]

https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/trump-meadows/

Details of documents in the possession of former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows show that there was a blueprint for members of the National Guard and U.S. Marshals to take control of the U.S. election system following former President Donald Trump's defeat.

After Meadows decided to abruptly withdraw his cooperation with the House Jan. 6 Select Committee on Tuesday, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) revealed that Meadows had provided the committee with an email containing a 38-page PowerPoint slideshow titled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN."

Author Karen Piper reviewed portions of the slideshow and concluded that it was "nuts."

"It's the craziest thing I've ever seen," Piper wrote on Twitter. She also described the document as "insane."

One slide explains how National Guard in each state would be federalized to count only "legitimate" paper ballots. Meanwhile, U.S. Marshals would be tasked with providing a "protective perimeter around the locations."

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[bearsfootball516]

1. They had a coordinated plan.

Luckily, the guardrails held. I'm not as confident about the future.

[Scrivener7]

9. They are getting away with it so far. And the next attempt will succeed.

[Kaleva]

12. It wasn't coordinated as the military wouldn't have gone along with it.

People who live in La-la Land can never produce a plan that has a chance of success in the the real world.

[kentuck]

2. There should be a warrant out for his arrest...

Today.

[elias7]

8. Yesterday

This is sedition and is an active issue. We delay action at our own peril…

[MagickMuffin]

3. I guess we know what to lookout for in future elections

Should I put elections in quotes?


We dodged a bullet but they came to close for comfort!

[spanone]

4. republicon traitor

[Haggard Celine]

5. So Meadows provided that email, and then he decided to fight the subpoena?

Is this all some sort of theater to try and appease Trump? Because if he's already given the committee the goods, what difference does it make if he doesn't testify any further?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. He got a phone call from Pendejo45. . . nt

[Haggard Celine]

15. LoL! Must have.

Looks like Pendejo45 was a little late, though. Marky has already spilled the beans.

[aggiesal]

23. I see what you did there. ...

Nicely done!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Cool. Glad you caught it, apropos of our other conversation :)

[aggiesal]

29. That name is so appropriate! Have a great day. n/t

[Captain Zero]

16. More dramatic. Might stick if he's on tv,

All over tv testifying and having to answer questions would register more in people's minds about what was going down.

A stack of papers? Not so much....
The average rumper can ignore a stack of papers that a democrat is talking about. Easily.

[Haggard Celine]

22. Yeah, the hearings are going to be theater, really.

It's all got to be revealed to everyone like a court case on TV. Everybody needs to know what happened, but I think most people, except for the Trumpers, have heard enough that they already have a good idea of what happened. I wish they could just give all their info to the DOJ and let them take it from there, but that's apparently not going to be enough. It all needs to be seen by the world in the light of day.

[wnylib]

25. Legal questions - Could the

Select Committee already be turning over some information to DOJ as they collect it? Is there any legal requirement for the Committee to wait until their investigation is complete and then turn in everything at once? Or, can they work in cooperation with DOJ, sharing documents and testimony as the Committee gets it and receiving feedback from DOJ (AG Garland) on what to follow up on in order to build cases?

There are so many people involved in the attempted coup that all the documents and testimonies from and about individuals involved must amount to a huge system of organizing them and keeping the facts and records straight. Where there are gaps in a potential case against any one of the characters, DOJ could request some types of questions or additional people to be questioned if DOJ and the Committee work together.

So, is there anything that would prevent mutual cooperation between the Committee and DOJ as the investigations proceed?

[Haggard Celine]

26. That's a good question. Wish I knew.

I'm sure the President has known all along about all of it, although the information he has seen probably can't be brought out in public. Can't help but wonder what access Garland has had. Have the intelligence agencies shared what they know with him? Pelosi has probably been aware of most of it as well, and Schumer too. So all of these people know, but they can't share what they know in the manner that they learned it. This whole thing with the committee is just the vehicle by which they tell the crimes to the public. That's why the Republicans hate it so much. They know that without the committee hearings, it's hard to expose all of this to the public.

[wnylib]

27. It just seems to me that it would be

efficient and productive for Congress and DOJ to work together on the investigation rather than have DOJ duplicating depositions and collection of documents.

Obtaining records and depositions from the Committee might be better than from FBI investigations since FBI Director Wray is a Federalist and there are Trump supporters embedded among the agents.

[Haggard Celine]

30. Good point about Wray.

Yes, I'm sure there have to be things the committee can do to help the DOJ. Hopefully they are.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The Brooks Bros. Riot lives to fight another day

Coup d'etat in suits with Powerpoint strike points.

We are so misled by suits and lawyers in this country. Some of them anyway.

[Hekate]

21. All the Brooks Brothers rioters & their *ahem* handmaidens have done quite, QUITE well since then

Amazing how that works.

[BlueJac]

7. So we sit back and do nothing?

It must be all ok or something would be happening!

[Kaleva]

17. That's your choice.

[Grasswire2]

38. what is your choice? nt

[Kaleva]

40. Preparing for what is predicted climate change will bring.

[Sewa]

41. Just as soon as the leaf blower issue in Dallas

is cleared up, we’ll get right on it. 💀🤙

[Hoyt]

11. Fortunately, they were not able to convince anyone -- including Supreme Court -- that it was a

fraudulent election. Sure, millions of trump's rubes believe it, but Biden is still Prez.

[Kaleva]

13. +1

[40RatRod]

14. Why do I feel we are just pi$$ing in the wind?

Seems like the next election will be here before anything happens and by then it will be too late if we lose the house and more senate seats.

[Kaleva]

18. I don't piss in the wind. There's nothing positive to gain from that.

[calimary]

19. And who gets to decide which votes are "legitimate"?

I suspect we know.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. It Says "Paper Ballots"

Now, they may be going further to parse which paper ballots are "legitimate". Maybe mail in ballots would be considered "illegitimate".
But, it sounds like they would summarily dismiss any machine ballots. Given their attempts to smear Dominion & Smartmatic, machines were clearly among their targets.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Just think what could happen if all GQP governors had their own 'Florida State Guard'.

Just think what could happen if all GQP governors had their own 'Florida State Guard'.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

28. Ya but Kamala Harris doesn't like Bluetooth headphones...

Perspective, people.

Focus on the things that are important!

[sarcasmo]

31. Treason.

[Grasswire2]

37. firing squad level

cigarette, stand against the wall.

[dalton99a]

33. Kick

[David__77]

34. If they had given the orders I think it could have worked.

Would the military have arrested Trump and his associates? Unfortunately, there may be a rerun of this scenario in some form.

[Grasswire2]

36. would Charles Flynn have been the one to give orders? nt

[spanone]

35. Sounds like the death of a Democracy

[mshasta]

39. so....freaking Fascist shit

so national guard was going to count only Republican white Christian votes and the ones with strange last names like Gonzalez, Hammid, Singh , Nuyeng, in every blue state will be discarded, very scary stuff...wow