New memos connect Team Trump directly to fake electors scheme

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.@MaddowBlog: Who was responsible for the fake electors scheme after the 2020 elections? New memos directly implicate former President Trump's team.

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New memos connect Team Trump directly to fake electors scheme
Who was responsible for the fake electors scheme after the 2020 elections? New memos directly implicate Donald Trump's team.
5:36 PM · Feb 3, 2022

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-memos-connect-team-trump-directly-fake-electors-scheme-n1288519?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

We've known for several weeks that Republicans in multiple states created forged election materials, pretending to be "duly elected and qualified electors," and sent the documents to, among others, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Archivist, as if the fake materials were legitimate. As the controversy has taken shape, answering the "why" question has been fairly easy.

It's the "who" and the "how" questions that have been murkier.

That said, the answers continue to come into sharper focus. The New York Times reported overnight, for example, on a Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin receiving a memo in November 2020 "setting out what became the rationale for an audacious strategy: to put in place alternate slates of electors in states where President Donald J. Trump was trying to overturn his loss."

The memo ... may not have been the first time that lawyers and allies of Mr. Trump had weighed the possibility of naming their own electors in the hopes that they might eventually succeed in flipping the outcome in battleground states through recounts and lawsuits baselessly asserting widespread fraud. But the Nov. 18 memo and another three weeks later are among the earliest known efforts to put on paper proposals for preparing alternate electors. They helped to shape a crucial strategy that Mr. Trump would embrace with profound consequences for himself and the nation.

Note the timeline of events: Election Day 2020 was Nov. 3; Joe Biden was declared the president-elect on Nov. 7; and we now know that on Nov. 18, Team Trump was circulating materials sketching out a scheme to overturn the election results by way of forged documents and fake electors.

This was not a freelance operation. It'd be a different kind of story if assorted Trump fans coincidentally engaged in a live-action-role-playing fantasy, simultaneously and independently coming up with the idea of creating fraudulent election materials as keepsakes.

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[dem4decades]

1. If only there was a Federal agency to investigate these shenanigans.

[ms liberty]

2. K&R n/t

[Kingofalldems]

3. Kick and rec

[mercuryblues]

4. Trump's fingerprints are all over it