Jan. 6 committee delivers whopping final report: Coup was planned months in advance

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Jan. 6 committee delivers whopping final report: Coup was planned months in advance
Trump's team had "fake electors" scheme lined up well before the election, panel finds in 845-page final report

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 23, 2022 9:44AM (EST)


(Salon) The final report of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack, all 845 pages of it, is now in the public realm. It was released late on Thursday, so I won't claim to have read it all thoroughly in one night. But unlike the last highly anticipated event like this, Robert Mueller's ill-fated report, we are already familiar with the outlines of what it contains — and there was no Trump official, à la Bill Barr, spinning it for him in advance. So we are in a better position to judge the evidence for ourselves,

The report follows roughly the same organization as the committee hearings that began last summer, but with much richer detail. Those hearings rarely lasted longer than a couple of hours and were tightly scripted. That was probably the most effective strategy and certainly made for gripping TV. But the story of what happened in the aftermath of the 2020 election, as Donald Trump convinced most of his party and tens of millions of Americans that up was down and black was white, is a byzantine tale you can't truly absorb until you see it revealed in all its bizarre particulars.

The report is organized in eight chapters:

1. The Big Lie
2. "I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes"
3. Fake Electors and the "President of the Senate Strategy"
4. "Just Call it Corrupt and Leave the Rest to Me"
5. "A Coup in Search of a Legal Theory"
6. "Be There, Will Be Wild!"
7. 187 Minutes of Dereliction
8. Analysis of the Attack

I'm pretty sure anyone who has been paying attention knows exactly which aspects of the coup plot those chapters are about.

Let's take one detail in Chapter 2 which validates reporting that Trump and his cronies were plotting the coup even before the election. Trump had been publicly indicating for months that he planned to contest the election if he came up short. In truth, that was his right, although there was no evidence of electoral fraud. But they weren't just talking about legal challenges to the election results — which Trump's team pursued, losing virtually all of them and failing to change the outcome anywhere. In fact, Trump's inner circle had been plotting for months to unconstitutionally overturn the election through the "fake elector" scheme. ..........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/23/jan-6-committee-delivers-whopping-final-report-coup-was-planned-months-in-advance/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[cutroot]

2. We now have documented proof of what we all knew was true.

The problem is that the republicans are going to choose to disbelieve it no matter what. Mark Twain said that it is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled. We are now living in that reality.

[onetexan]

17. It doesn't matter. There's no convincing the deniers, either brainwashed or those who pedal the big

Lie on purpose. What matters is the whole damn GOP coup plot spearheaded by the Con & his partners in crime has been uncovered & documented, and there for any sensible american to see for themselves how it all was corruptly planned, plotted, conspired, and executed, albeit unsuccessfully.

[underpants]

3. McEntee himself is a piece of crap

Kick

[Botany]

4. From the Salon article: Fake Electors "in order to prevent "socialism."

Two days after the election, Donald Trump Jr. texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to say, "State Assemblies can step in and vote to put forward the electoral slate[,] Republicans control Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, etc. we get Trump electors," and therefore "we either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January."

Trump adviser and speechwriter Vince Haley apparently wrote in an email to Trump's longtime confidant Johnny McEntee that there was no need to focus on election fraud at all. He said that state legislators "have the constitutional right to substitute their judgment for a certified majority of their constituents" in order to prevent "socialism." He gave McEntee contact info for various state legislators, suggesting they should be invited to the White House to hear the pitch personally. Trump later called a number of those legislators.

******
people need to be in jail for this .... and any member of the House or Senate who went along with these crimes
should not be seated in Congress.

[Alice Kramden]

13. Important point

Thanks for emphasizing

[Butterflylady]

5. So basically, they knew months in advance that rump would lose.

[Botany]

6. Trump was told in May or June that he he was going to lose because he was so unpopular

And to this day I think he had Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden torn out because that man
just wanted to be a prick on his way out of the White House.

[Grins]

8. Yes!! That's the one! They knew in late Spring/early Summer...

…that they were going to lose. And Bill Barr knew it then, too! Why the media didn’t pick up on this in early 2021 is beyond me.

(You beat me to it.)

[Botany]

9. God only knows how much cheating "they" did to get it as close as it turned out to be.

I think the campaign experts told Trump he was "underwater" with the voters and that
there was no coming back from those #s.

[Meadowoak]

16. The media was in on it.

[onetexan]

19. They all knew, Pence included & his silence is complicity

[Stuart G]

7. Thank You for Posting & Sharing With Us...K and R

[republianmushroom]

10. 23 months and counting

[chowder66]

11. I would like Benedict Cumberbatch to read this in audio book form

with 1.5 hour chapters in black screen and posted on youtube....please.

[Captain Zero]

15. report looks like the outline for a Netflix series.

To me.

[Richard D]

18. I wonder . . .

. . . if such a series is already in production.

[onetexan]

20. James Earl Jones or Dennis Haysbert

[Upthevibe]

12. Kick. N/T

[Alice Kramden]

14. Every one of those involved

with the Fake Electors needs to be prosecuted and face consequences

[liberal N proud]

21. It was what I feared on election night 2016

I remember the horrible feeling that trump had plans to make himself dictator.

He idolized dictator, was pals with dictators and wanted their kind of power

[lees1975]

22. Now it is all laid out for the DOJ

and I'm expecting indictments, as are the majority of Americans. We are a nation of law and order and Trump is a lawbreaker, a corrupt cheat and a criminal who must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Now.