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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    I hope this is true so I can use it the next time my dad goes on some diatribe about how the democrats are ruining the country or how he couldn’t vote for any other than Trump in good faith.

    If this is true, everyone who continues to support him is outright against our country.

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      You think this is gonna change a single MAGA mind? Your dad will just put his fingers in his ears and chant fake news.

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        My brother, a Canadian who is socially liberal, economically conservative, and virtually apolitical thinks the fake elector thing is bs.

        He doesn’t care if it did or didn’t happen.

        I am not saying this to contradict you. I am supportive of your point. This is unlikely to even remote reach most people in a meaningful way, let alone die hard Trump fans that somehow think he’s a virile, brave, genius business person with big hands and an animal musk that Larry from Three’s Company would envy.

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      It’s just brain washing. They keep saying the Democrats are ruining the country and if you don’t vote for trump you won’t have a country. They say it over and over nonstop until people believe it. They say it on Fox News they say it on tweeter. And they encourage their peers to say it. It’s insane that it works so easily. I’m appalled and amazed at the same time.

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        It’s an easy thing to spread, because there’s a kernel of truth to it. Democrats are ruining the country. They’re just not doing it half as quickly as Republicans are.

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          You can see how administrations work, during republican the tax cuts for the rich get thr economy in shambles, then enters a democrat, and suddenly gets better, and repeat.

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            Things aren’t getting better by any metric. All of the most harmful legislation, the Patriot act, the Iraq war resolution, the restrict act, etc, is always bipartisan. Democrats are absolutely ruining the country alongside the Republicans. They’re just taking the scenic route.

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              idk why you are getting downvoted. Biden has done absolutely nothing to curb american fascism. more cops. He gave that weird anti-fascism speech last september and followed it up with exactly nothing structural. No election day holiday exec order, no universal mail in voting. No greedflation profit confiscation, price controls, cut pandemic medicaid, grew child poverty by 50%c blah blah. Our center-right neoliberal and far right fash parties are closer than they are apart, but we can’t have that conversation as a country.

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                I’m being downvoted because I’m going against the narrative people have learned from fairy tales and movies, that if there’s a bad guy there simply must be a good guy, and you have to be on one side or the other. God forbid people approach politics with an ounce of nuance instead of simplifying it to childlike levels and rooting for one side like it’s a sports team. Your average DNC simp on the internet is just a MAGA with a different colored hat.

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                  You’re being downvoted because people disagree with you. Obviously you can spin that however you want to make yourself feel good, but that’s the long and short of it. Personally I think you are the one who lacks nuance in your analysis.

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

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

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                  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.

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                    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.

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              Doom! Both sides are bad!

              So who should we vote for?

              Republicans or a third party that helps Republicans, no doubt.

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              That party isn’t even particularly consistent given how many different types of people are in it. What I can tell you is the genuinely monstrous people are drawn to the Republican party because they’re actively welcomed there.

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                That party isn’t even particularly consistent given how many different types of people are in it.

                That’s a pretty long winded way to say “no, I do not believe they’re good people who care about me”.

                Can you think of anything positive to say about them that doesn’t involve comparing them to Republicans? I can’t.

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                    Yes. Satisfactory, desirable, moral. If you need to compare a concept to it’s antonym to define it, then you don’t really understand the concept.

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      If you click the article, you can hear recordings of this happening and read the emails where they plan it.

      It’s definitely true. Clear, unambiguous language is used throughout all evidence.

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        Audio recordings don’t mean shit to these fucks. They’ll just grab it by the pussy and toss it into their basket of deplorables where some, I assume, are good. The whole thing will blow over by Easter.