Exclusive: Recordings, emails show how Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC in final push to overturn 2020 election | CNN Politics
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Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.

Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.

So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to the nation’s capital, relying on a haphazard chain of couriers, as well as help from two Republicans in Congress, to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification.

The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.

The new details provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the chaotic last-minute effort to keep Donald Trump in office. The fake electors scheme features prominently in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment against the former president, and some of the officials who were involved have spoken to Smith’s investigators.

  • badaboomxx@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 months ago

    bOtH sIdEs argument… funny how the data shows that republicans get worse results than democrats, but yeah, bOtH sIdEs

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      10 months ago

      So your take is since something is worse than the Democrats, that makes them good by default? You’re a child.

      • badaboomxx@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 months ago

        Lol that is basically your projection on republicans hahahaha how ironic.

        Also a fallacy, I’ve never said that, I just pointed to your idiotic abOtH sIdEs fallacy.

        • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          10 months ago

          Lol that is basically your projection on republicans hahahaha how ironic.

          The fuck are you even talking about?

          abOtH sIdEs fallacy.

          It’s not a fallacy. They’re both horrible. They’re not the same, one is clearly worse, but they don’t have to be equally bad to both be bad.

          • badaboomxx@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            You are the idiot using the both sides fallacy. Not me.

            Lol, and you keep with the same stupid argument.

            Sure bud both sides are equally worse hahahahhahaa

            • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              10 months ago

              Sure bud both sides are equally worse

              I never said that lmao. It’s like you don’t even read posts before you decide for yourself what they ought to say

              • badaboomxx@lemmy.world
                11·
                10 months ago

                You said that both are terrible bud.

                The issue is that democrats ate useless, but republicans always try to push their agenda of hate and remove people’s rights… but sure idiot bOtH sIdEs ArE tErRiBlE bud

                • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  They are both terrible. This isn’t a Disney movie, the world isn’t either good or bad. Someone can be bad even if someone else is worse.