Leaked witness testimony from pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro allegedly reveals how the former president’s aides scrambled to overturn the 2020 election

Leaked witness testimony from pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro allegedly reveals how the former president’s aides scrambled to overturn the 2020 election

Donald Trump’s campaign team physically flew “fake elector” ballots across the country to Washington DC in a last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election, a new report claims.

According to CNN, leaked witness testimony from a Michigan state investigation shows how Mr Trump’s aides scrambled to deliver the allegedly fraudulent paperwork to vice president Mike Pence before he could certify the election results.

The so-called “fake electors” plot hinged on the fact that American presidents are not directly elected by the people, but rather by 538 “electors” who are selected by their states based on the outcome of the vote.

Mr Trump’s team allegedly pressured state legislators to ignore the vote and choose their electors by fiat. When that did not work, they assembled their own group of electors with no legal standing and pushed vice president Mike Pence to accept it instead of the real ones.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    591·
    9 months ago

    You guys remember when people invented a worldwide conspiracy about rich people eating the fear of tortured children to stay young because John Podesta emailed his staff about a pizza party?

    One would think that little debacle wouldve taught the Trump team not to email their felonies in plain language.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      One would think that little debacle wouldve taught the Trump team not to email their felonies in plain language.

      An intelligent person might have learned from that…

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      62·
      9 months ago

      They can’t learn from their own actions, why ever would they learn from the actions of others?

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      That only works if they knew it was a lie all along. I think many of them thought it was actually true, which made them think there was no repercussion to talking freely about committing crimes on emails.

    • that guy@lemmy.world
      815·
      9 months ago

      Yeah we all know there’s no elite cabal of pedophiles escaping justice because of how many of Epstein’s johns are in jail today. A grand total of zero. Justice served. Case closed. No pedos anywhere. Definitely not the UK Monarchy either.

      • Traister101@lemmy.today
        9·
        9 months ago

        They didn’t say a thing about there not being rich pedos. Hell Trump is known for being buddies with Epstein there’s no winning here when Trump was the fuckn president at the time to boot.

        • xor@sh.itjust.works
          81·
          9 months ago

          pizza gate isn’t real, but Epstein was definitely real and had a lot of victims and a lot of clients…
          one of them happens to be a professional prince…

          • Soulg@lemmy.world
            71·
            9 months ago

            Yes but the original comment was very explicitly referring to pizza gate, not just the nebulous idea of powerful people being also terrible

            • xor@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              9 months ago

              the original comment was very explicitly referring to the fact that pizzagate wasn’t real

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 months ago

            Bro none of Epstein’s underage prostitutes, which is severely fucked up to even type, were tortured to death so that rich people could eat their fear, because pizzagate is not real.

            Also fun fact to share with any QAnon people you may know - you can just buy adrenochrome wholesale because it’s a waste product of EpiPen production and it’s pretty cheap.

            Again, child sex trafficking is very real and is terrible. Hillary Clinton also did not wear a child’s face in a satanic ritual to stay young, because that’s insane and she is very old.