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.
It’s because they are cruel people. Trump, and people like him, give them permission to indulge their cruelty. They give them an avenue to lean into their worst, most hateful, instincts and still feel like a good and righteous person.
See, hateful racist pricks don’t view themselves as hateful racist pricks. They view themselves as sensible, rational people who see “what’s really going on.” When someone like Trump comes along and says, “No, you’re right. The Muslims are trying to force public schools to make your child pray to Allah. The Mexicans are flooding over the border to steal your job. The Jews are conspiring to replace good white people with dirty ‘woke’ minorities,” well, suddenly Trump is “making a lot of sense,” and “telling it like it is.”
Trump makes them feel good about being their worst selves. Trump lets them believe that anyone who questions their hateful worldview is just some libtard afflicted by the “woke mindvirus” and can be written off as subhuman and beneath contempt. He lets them think that maybe they’ll finally get to kill a few of them if he’s running the show. And because of all that he has earned their undying devotion.
That certainly describes the people we’ve seen on tv and the internet and outside his rallies but I’d venture to guess the larger segment of Trump voters are just rank and file Republicans who have little interest in politics. There sure are hateful people in this country who’ve found a leader to represent their long-stifled voice. Don’t ignore those who couldn’t care less or those who only care about one thing though. They aren’t ever voting for a D or a catholic or an octogenarian. Because powerful corporations and politicians, the RNC / DNC, religious leaders, etc. have rewired people’s brains. Sometimes it’s not their fault - it’s not cruelty, it’s ignorance and laziness. I think the ignorant and lazy can and should be helped.
I don’t know if this is a larger issue than a sitting president trying to overturn an election but the two party system, the system that often promotes voting against a candidate, is, I think, worth spending more time discussing. We need Ranked Choice Voting in this country for all primary elections.
It’s good of you keep making excuses for these people but we are leaning in toward fascism. If they are still oblivious to it by this point than they have lost any goodwill from me. If it takes gas chambers for you to say, “I was wrong” than there is something seriously wrong with you.
You are so astute! That’s such a perfect explanation.