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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeather Cox Richardson - January 2, 2022 - Dropping some news
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2022?First, former New York City Police commissioner Bernard Kerik, a high-school dropout who began a meteoric rise to prominence after working as Trump loyalist Rudy Giulianis chauffeur and bodyguard, delivered documents to the committee.
The documents Keriks lawyer delivered on Friday included a 22-page document titled "STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS PLANGIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL LEGAL DEFENSE TEAM. Its subtitle was We Have 10 Days To Execute This Plan & Certify President Trump!
The document laid out a pressure campaign directed at SWING STATE REPUBLICAN SENATORSAZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI, REPULBICAN [sic] MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE, and REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. It laid out the false argument that the election had been stolen, offered messaging to push these false claims, and provided a list of outlets and influencers to use, including the House Freedom Caucus members. It called for protests around the country, including at weak Members homes.
EYESORE 9001
(26,027 posts)It reads like the Rosetta Stone for conspiracy to steal the election.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I cant believe they wrote down and distributed their treason so casually. They must have thought the coup was in the bag.
Irish_Dem
(47,885 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)They may have been right!
Irish_Dem
(47,885 posts)pecosbob
(7,548 posts)Just some coffee boy. Rogue administrations have always gotten away with it.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)thought they'd be successful and with Trump in the White House, they presumed there would be no consequences. Well also, they really aren't terribly bright. They got away with too much for too long and became oblivious to reality.
Irish_Dem
(47,885 posts)they did. All their dirty tricks, law breaking, they did with impunity.
Gave them a false sense of security, but maybe it is reality.
We shall see if they ever face any consequences.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)They become more and more careless the longer they go without being caught. When those criminals are also stupid, it is inevitable that they'll mess up.
Happy New Year Irish Dem!
Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)They thought for sure this would work. Rudy was going to use this document to start a business helping other countries stage a coup.
ShazzieB
(16,637 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)They betrayed America, the Bible, and themselves. A Triple-Stank!
Republican traitors need lots of jail time.
* Repulbicans - This putrid portmanteau must be Kerik's subconscious brain fragment kicking in. He was trying to think and spell republican, but the concept of repulsive got mixed it, because of their intimate relationship of meaning. Ergo: repulbicans.
#repulbicans
Kid Berwyn
(15,057 posts)Or maybe Bernie Kerik didnt know what they put down on paper.
Certainly reads like someone forgot to Spellcheck.
malaise
(269,282 posts)Led by the Slobfather
sarchasm
(1,014 posts)2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)I remember Kerik being a Giuliani hack, but "high school drop out chauffeur?" That's like the slobfather's former body guard, Matthew Calamari, he hired after watching him beat up someone becoming the top executive of his Mom and Pop shop that employed twelve people, which included his three grown children-which was his qualification to be President of the United States.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,254 posts)so by now his brain is probably Swiss cheese.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)At one time, he supposedly was an effective prosecutor. All the booze has turned that brain into mush.
Captain Zero
(6,863 posts)When Trump was on the rise in NYCity.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)They must have been friends for a long time.
Yoyoyo77
(271 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)Conjuay
(1,447 posts)Said he was a buffoon even back then.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)and appears to *adore* convicted/pardoned war criminal Eddie Gallagher, was that fkr perhaps drawn into the plot? After all, he owes LOSER45 everything
2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)had the nerve to call de Blasio New York's worst mayor????
State and National government by thug street trash and psychos.
Wounded Bear
(58,774 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)The assumption was that the popular vote would be won by George W. "Let's get a beer" Bush, while Al "Let's think about what we're doing" Gore would win the electoral college. There was planned to be a hue and cry among the Repug media and leaders about how Dubya was the real winner because more people voted for him, and Gore didn't deserve to be president. We know how that turned out.
There wasn't a plan to invalidate the entire electoral process, however. The free and fair vote was still the bedrock foundation of democracy.
Walleye
(31,149 posts)KS Toronado
(17,456 posts)If they don't, we'll know which political party they prefer to be in charge.
ShazamIam
(2,577 posts)scan their internet home pages.
maxsolomon
(33,458 posts)This isn't a smoking gun. There is no smoking gun.
KS Toronado
(17,456 posts)KS Toronado
(17,456 posts)Rachel however did a segment on him.
Marthe48
(17,120 posts)It is an act of treason.
I have never had a problem with protesting policies set by the government, or protesting laws that are unfair. But trying to dismantle the government we have and putting mob bosses and white supremists in place is treason.
pandr32
(11,640 posts)Mob tactics.
70sEraVet
(3,535 posts)a few House and Senate Republican members.
pandr32
(11,640 posts)However, they may have already thrown in the give-a-shit towel.
zaj
(3,433 posts)By that I mean, the BFD was in public and 14-18 months ago... the declaration of a stolen election.
This is the far less remarkable, natural next steps of lobbying the votes.
Why is having a written summary like this seen as a BFD?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)But with false information?
zaj
(3,433 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)They are hiding behind rally and protesting the vote.
CaptainTruth
(6,617 posts)...even required, to achieve their goals. That means messaging, conduits for delivering the messaging to the public ("outlets and influencers" ), & boots on the ground action ("protests around the country" ).
This is what we're up against, organized attacks on our democracy, & we really need to get better at fighting back if we want to win more elections & save American democracy.
zaj
(3,433 posts)We need to establish the reality that the GOP isn't trustworthy because they have collapsed into an authoritarian party and are seeking to destroy 250 years of American democracy.
Anything less than this clear, accurate, robust sort of message is dangerous.
gab13by13
(21,493 posts)there is a video with Michael Cohen giving an interview, it's only 4 minutes long. He basically says to believe nothing, to dig deeper. He talks about the emails that were given to the select committee during the coup. He feels these are set ups, possibly, to throw Mark Meadows under the bus. Take everything these traitors do and say with a grain of salt.
Go check out the Cohen video.
FakeNoose
(32,895 posts)... just as Michael Cohen says. I believe they'll sacrifice Mark Meadows if need be. But the thing is, Meadows IS guilty, just as they all are. They were all in on it.
This document that Bernie Kerik gave to the J6 committee is the blueprint for the coup, as it was laid out by Eastman in early December. Of course Kerik didn't have a hand in writing it, probably it was written by Rudy G. and the Kraken lady.
So why did Bernie Kerik's lawyer turn it over to the J6 committee? Hmmm, maybe this lawyer is secretly working for Chump. (?) I don't know. I think we should lock them all up together in the same prison cell and let them fight it out with Chump.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)I mean the document is incriminating right?
FakeNoose
(32,895 posts)I say that because if Chump can ever extricate himself from this mess, it will be by him saying the WH advisors didn't tell him what they were up to. Which is of course BS, but he has no defense otherwise. If Chump is going to deflect his own guilt, it will only be to dump on somebody else. Maybe Mark Meadows? Maybe on Rudy Giuliani? I don't know.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Didn't know about anything? Re your comment that K's lawyer might be working with T's lawyer
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why is it that only the results unfavorable to the former guy are the focus of the "election fraud" nut squad? And yet, for all their thud and blunder, the only cheaters that get uncovered are folks who illegally cast ballots for the former guy. Neither of these facts seems to penetrate the narrative.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Why would you want it out there that investigators found nothing?
Or tin foil hat time... Was Abbott supposed to manufacture something?
h2ebits
(650 posts)His information is bone chilling, if all the information on Wikipedia is valid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik
Orrex
(63,267 posts)I read every word of every update she posts. Consistently brilliant work.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)liberalla
(9,277 posts)OMGWTF
(3,991 posts)Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)Picked up on twitter within 24 hours. Those of us who follow twitter closely saw the news about Kerik.