The investigation so far has found that coup planners met at DC's Willard Hotel [photo] in what was known among them as the "command center" where the rallies prior to counting the electoral votes on January 6th were planned. The hotel suite became the base of operations for Rudi Gulliani, Steve Bannon and John Eastman, among other die hards. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik billed the Trump campaign $55,295 for the hotel rooms. Kerik acted as an alleged fraud investigator for the conspirators. (Roger Stone was a visitor to the "command center" but did not participate in the coup plotting). Two witnesses cooperating with the House Select Committee told the Rolling Stone protest organizers met with Repugnant Congress members on numerous occasions.
According to press reporting, organizers in the first days of January were calling members of Congress from their Willard suite to encourage swing state legislators to convene special sessions to reassign electoral votes from Biden to Trump on the basis of unsubstantiated claims of fraud. On January 2nd alone, Gulliani and Eastman spoke to 300 state legislators to convince them of alleged fraudulent voting. On January 5 dozens of lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wrote to VP Pence asking that he delay certification of Biden’s victory for 10 days to permit ‘our respective bodies to fulfill, examine, and vote on certification or decertification of the election.’ Conspirators efforts were reinforced by Facebook posts from their rabid supporters. That company, in the interest of pursuing more profit, took down previous content limits established during the election period, resulting in a flood of hateful, violent posts and election misinformation. The plotters then pressured Vice President Pence to not count electoral votes from targeted swing states on January 6th in conformity with the scenario outlined by Eastman in his now infamous memo. Pence refused to participate in the conspiracy.
Eastman, the legal architect of the conspiracy, is a law professor, and former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas. He has yet to be subpoenaed by the House Select Committee. When asked about his involvement in the coup attempt he told reporters, “To the extent I was there, those were attorney discussions. You don’t get any comment from me on those.” His alleged legal advice was meretricious--a blatant misinterpretation of the Vice President's ministerial electoral function under the Constitution's Twelve Amendment.
So, who were the congressional co-conspirators? The list is familiar to those who follow Congress: Reps. Paul Gosar [p], Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs [p], Lauren Boebert [p], Madison Cawthorn, Mo Brooks, and Louie Gohmert. The informants say there were "dozens" of planning meetings with these members or their staffs prior to January 6th. At one point Gosar promised the organizers blanket pardons from Herr Trumpillini to encourage them to go ahead with the Elipse protest. Greene, Boebert and Gosar spoke at he event that turned into a riot after the former guy appeared and told his armed supporters to march to the Capitol. When the insurrectionists broke into the Senate chamber, they headed directly to the Senate Parliamentarian's office and ransacked it looking for the hard copy of the Electoral College vote count. It strains credulity to think the average horned shaman would know where to find that office tucked away in the warrens of the Capitol.
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