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turbinetree

(24,745 posts)
Sat Dec 24, 2022, 02:08 PM Dec 2022

Two Texas businessmen pitched Trump on plan to overturn 2020 election: J6 report

By Texas Tribune
Published December 24, 2022

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Two Texas businessmen, with ties to former Gov. Rick Perry, met with former President Donald Trump a week after the 2020 election and presented him with a fringe theory that state legislatures could overturn election results, according to the congressional report on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that was released Thursday.

The theory fueled one of the main strategies Trump's closest allies pushed to overturn the 2020 election results, even though legal experts, including those within Trump's White House, dismissed the idea as unlawful and said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.

The two Austin-area businessmen, Morgan Warstler and John S. Robison, met with Trump in an Oval Office meeting on Nov. 10, 2020, according to the report. The exact nature of what they discussed was not detailed, but Warstler tweeted in June that he had told the “whole Trump team in Oval” that “State legislatures can choose the electors-no matter what current state law OR state courts say” — in essence empowering Republican-controlled state lawmakers to overturn President Joe Biden’s win.

https://www.rawstory.com/two-texas-businessmen-pitched-trump-on-plan-to-overturn-2020-election-jan-6-report-reveals/

And people wonder why the country is in the shape its in.....this fucking goes back to the Roberts Court and Citizens United ....and this Roberts court over ruling McConnel and the FEC....and Sheldon Whitehouse in is book Scheme.......lays this right out...its all about the entry of dark money......lock these fuckers up.....

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Two Texas businessmen pitched Trump on plan to overturn 2020 election: J6 report (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2022 OP
And this whole stupid chimera of the primacy of state legislatures is now at SCOTUS. lark Dec 2022 #1
How quickly a couple of "nobodies" can get into the Oval Office if they have the right sponsor, n/t Peregrine Took Dec 2022 #2

lark

(23,191 posts)
1. And this whole stupid chimera of the primacy of state legislatures is now at SCOTUS.
Sat Dec 24, 2022, 02:16 PM
Dec 2022

You know Thomas wants this and wants it bad it's his wife's top ask and he will do it if he can. I'd bet Alito is out cheerleading with him to try and push this through and destroy American democracy for their desired religious oligarchy.

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