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The first day of public hearings yesterday removed all reasonable doubt that the insurrection was planned in advance and that Herr Donald Trumpillini would use it as a latch ditch attempt to overthrow the election results. His fake elector scheme, cooked up by John Eastman*, did not work in swing states, and he could not convince the Georgia Secretary of State to find him some more votes. VP Pence was not cooperating with his autogolpe, so he turned to his last, desperate gambit--a violent riot to stop the vote count at the Capitol led by the extremist sturmtruppen, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. He was apparently willing to see his vice-president lynched by the mob. "Maybe our supporters have the right idea", a more condemning utterance he could not make.
The desperate despot was told repeatedly that there were no hidden ballots, rigged voting machines or support for his fraud claims. Nevertheless Trump refused to accept defeat. William Barr told him several times his fraud claims were bullish--t. His daughter Ivanka believed the AG. What was his comment about that incongruity? His daughter was "checked out" of the election, and did not understand how elections work in America. That is one hundred and eighty degrees away from the truth. But then he is used to getting his way despite the truth. He may be able to finesse a New York City development deal, but not a presidential election, at least not yet.
US Person hopes, for the sake of what remains of democracy in the USA, that MAGA voters will watch the proceedings and change their minds about Donald J. Trump, the most corrupt president in the history of this country. After all, he told you so. So why in hell is Merritt Garland not indicting him now?
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* Federal District Court Judge David O. Carter ordered Eastman, Trump's latter day G. Gordon Liddy, to turn over more documents to the House Select Committee on Tuesday. Several of these documents relate to meetings held between plotters in early December to plan for alternative slates of state electors that would favor Trump. The December 9th meeting agenda included a member of Congress to discuss challenging the election results in the House of Representatives. Eastman also submitted memos concerning the plan to presidential staff members, and contacted sympathetic legislators in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Judge Carter conceded in his order that Trump's pressure campaign to stop the count reached every tier of federal and state elected officials. "...President Trump's plan to stop the count was not only established by early December, it was the ultimate goal that the legal team was working to protect from that point forward,"he wrote.