Recordings, emails show how Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC in final push to overturn 2020 election

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html

CNN
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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.

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.

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[brush]

1. Big trouble for trump and many of his operatives...probably some legislators too.

Sen. Ron Johnson maybe, Gym Jordan too.

[kentuck]

13. Ron Johnson has a private jet...

As does his family, so I have read.

[usaf-vet]

32. Exactly! RoJo as he is called by us WI liberals. Married into a Wisconsin corporate family. IMO he would be humping...

.... crazy internet gimmicks. Like, "You don't need hearing aids all you need is the tap two teaspoons next to your ear."
If he didn't marry into corporate money.

He was caught when the push was on to get the false electoral ballots to DC. He lied when he denied any involvement in the scheme.

[maxrandb]

2. Isn't that mail fraud?

[BComplex]

34. Knowing DJT, he prolly broke the law for the financial aspects of transporting the ballots as well, I would guess.

He juggles money like a maytag washing machine from one account to the next.

[Lonestarblue]

3. So when will the DOJ investigate Ron Johnson and Scott Perry for their accomplice roles in the fake elector fraud?

I won’t hold my breath waiting.

[gratuitous]

6. I'm certain that Rep. Jordan's committee will get right on subpoenaing those two

When he has a little time, like, after Infrastructure Week or the unveiling of the former guy's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

Did it seem like the CNN story was really reluctant to name Sen. Johnson and Rep. Perry as the Republicans who were up their beady little eyeballs in this sordid episode?

[Boomerproud]

7. If CNN has the docs to back up the story with the names then broadcast it.

The only reason I think of re their resistance is Jack Smith already knows and it's part of the indictment.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

19. Of course he knows

[machoneman]

25. Oh, and right after the plans for the Trump Presidential Library are finalized! What a hoot!

[usaf-vet]

33. They are going to annex a Presidential Library to a federal prison. It will likely have a couple of books tfg .....

..... had ghostwritten? And, of course, mien kamph and a bible owned by someone else that he held upside down for the world to see in one of his political stunts. They will represent at least two books he never read.

[FelineOverlord]

4. Stuck in the mail??? 😂😂😂

DeJoyless failed his master!

[tanyev]

10. Yeah, I thought that, too.

Blowback!

[PTL_Mancuso]

30. DeStroy stuck in the Jail!

a dream of mine!

[dchill]

5. I'm pretty sure Trump never heard of any of these people!

[aggiesal]

8. Another domino falls. I wonder how many are left. n/t

[tanyev]

9. Chesebro claims to have learned a lesson:

“It’s been a real lesson in not working with people that you don’t know and are not sure you can trust, because it really went south on me.”

You’d think someone who’s been a lawyer for quite some time would have figured that out already.

[lindysalsagal]

11. This is all proof that tfg knowingly committed treason. Also proof he should be removed from ballots.

You can't get anything more concrete than this.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. i want to see a lot of these ppl in jail too also, starting w t,,,. im getting tired of the coddleing.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. The evidence of insurrection, coup attempt is voluminous. It is hard to believe how DOJ is being so hobbled (so far).

[ffr]

15. The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail? DEJOY!!!

How ironic! TFG replaced the postmaster general with his own handpicked guy to log-jam the U.S. Postal Service.

[usonian]

16. Freakin CNN

If anyone has problems, use the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231228211125/https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html

[MorbidButterflyTat]

20. How is CNN responsible

for your web browser and your region's privacy legislation?

[usonian]

22. It's just a lie.

My blockers are cutting their ad revenue.

Whatever excuse they are using is B.S.

The so-called issue might be California privacy rules which restrict who knows what.

It might have to do with third-party tracking cookies.

More to do with their ad revenue, IMNSHO.

[Cheezoholic]

17. I remember when they flew a couple of, I think MI state reps, to DC

I mean I'm seeing a lot of stuff coming up in the media that's just regurgitation of headlines from 2 years ago. It's fine to remind but are we all truly that forgetful?

[PlutosHeart]

18. Late Christmas present

it looks like. THX Jack.

[uponit7771]

21. "...help from two Republicans in Congress...'

[Nevilledog]

23. Ron Johnson & Scott Perry are my guesses.

[uponit7771]

24. They were very confident on the day of them wanting to take over the government now they all want to hide.

[gab13by13]

27. They aren't hiding

they are very active in the continuing insurrection. They even made Scott Perry chairman of the Freedumb caucus where he is investigating the FBI.

[gab13by13]

26. Here is the importance of this news,

There were no appeals of fraud going through the court system, all were litigated. The only reason to fly those fake elector documents to DC was to aid in the coup attempt to overthrow the election, those fake documents served no other purpose.

Also, the 2 Congressional Magats should be banned from holding office under the 14th Amendment.

[Scurrilous]

28. K&R

[Solly Mack]

29. K&R

[SouthernDem4ever]

31. Gee how surprising

NOT!

[Wild blueberry]

35. Very good article

Thank you.