These times crazy. Asha Rangappa outlines how the 2020 Bigly Steal was going to work for previous guy in conjunction with the 6 January 2021 Insurrection.
The icing on this cake is the NY indictments for tax fraud. Despite all the moving parts, justice might actually be turning, however slowly, step-by-step. More than one person has at least been obstructing justice, and those shoes have been waiting to drop since the Mueller Report.
- STEP 1: John Eastman concocts a “legal blueprint” whereby VP Pence elides the requirements of the Electoral Vote Act based on 7 states submitting dual slates of electors, allowing Pence to either count the alternate slate or not count those states at all cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/image…
- STEP 2: GOP operatives/officials in those 7 states in fact create a false slate of electors and submit them as official, so they can be used in the scenario above cnn.com/2022/01/12/pol…
- STEP 3: DOJ, meanwhile, submits letters to each state, indicating (falsely) that they have reason to believe that there has been election fraud. This creates perception that results are actually in question, bolstering VP’s ability to discount their votes documentcloud.org/documents/2108… *** I should note here that, as with the quid-pro-quo with Ukraine, it wouldn’t have mattered if these states did not actually investigate voter fraud — the DOJ letters would have been enough to create *the appearance* that the outcome in these states was still in the air
- STEP 4: The Big Lie is repeated in rallies and social media, saturating information space to rile up base and give momentum to “Stop the Steal” movement justsecurity.org/74622/stopthes…
- STEP 5: Plan for all of these angry and agitated individuals to come to D.C. on January 6, the day that Eastman’s plan will be put into effect. The protesters are sent to march on the Capitol, to further put pressure on VP Pence and lawmakers, as stated in Oath Keeper indictment
- STEP 6: Since mob attack is intended to keep up pressure on Pence/lawmakers, they must be able to remain in Capitol as long as possible. So: 6a) Purge top DOD and replace with loyalists; and 6b) delay LE/National Guard response as long as possible esquire.com/news-politics/…
- STEP 7: ??? I’m not sure what was supposed to happen at this point. Presumably, Pence would somehow declare Trump the winner, or if not, the Capitol would remain occupied until they found a way to make him do it. Seems like they planned to continue the siege
- The point is that there are a lot of moving parts and evidence surfacing in a lot of different areas but they are all connected to one overarching goal: Keep Trump in power by subverting the counting of the electoral votes and preventing the transfer of power to Biden /END
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McCarthy’s refusal may be the most significant moment thus far in the wide-ranging effort by Trump allies to cover up his Jan. 6-related corruption. That’s because McCarthy, who reportedly appealed to Trump as the violence unfolded, likely has some of the most direct knowledge available of Trump’s conduct as the mob rampage continued.
That could have criminal implications, if Trump’s attempt to subvert the electoral count in Congress amounted to an effort to obstruct an official proceeding.
“There’s no doubt that McCarthy is a material witness to a possible crime by the former president,” New York University School of Law professor Ryan Goodman told me. “His conversation with Trump during the height of the riot could provide direct evidence of Trump’s mind-set and scheme.”
The true nature of what that conversation could tell us keeps getting lost. It’s not just that it could reveal that Trump displayed extraordinary depravity and malevolence in ignoring numerous frantic pleas to call off the rioters.
It’s also that this knowledge could reveal that Trump may have come to see the violence as instrumentally helpful to his cause of subverting the election’s outcome.
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Despite its popularity with Trump and his circle of supporters, OAN currently has fairly limited distribution. Following DirecTV’s decision Verizon’s FiOS service is the only television provider to still offer OAN. But DirecTV was the channel’s major source of revenue and viewership. According to a Reuters report last year, top AT&T executives were involved with the founding of the channel—channel founder Robert Herring Sr. has testified that AT&T executives told him they wanted a conservative alternative to promote—and up to 90 percent of the channel’s revenue came through DirecTV’s viewership.
And the channel was already facing a number of potentially costly battles over its content, including a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed against the network by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims the channel made accusing the company of involvement with voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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During a broadcast to his fans, Inforwars founder and career conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blamed Sen. Ted Cruz for the recent arrest of the founder of the Oath Keepers militia, who was charged with “seditious conspiracy” in relation to his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 of last year.
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“[Oath Keepers founder] Stewart Rhodes has been indicted for doing absolutely nothing and not calling for a breach in the Capitol to cover up for Ray Epps because Sen. Ted Cruz and others brought it up in Congress as one of the top trending stories on Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram,” Jones continued.