Friday, August 11, 2023

TWIT: All the King's Men

credit: M. Lukovitch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BC Idonwanna sez: Eric says so, too!

This week  a memo from Trump solider Kenneth Chesebro was brought to the public's short-lived attention by the New York Times. The December 6th, 2020 memo lays out the corrupt intent of Team Crazy not just to delay vote counting on January 6th, but to manipulate the vote in such a way as to keep Der Leader in the lead. They needed the votes from the fake electors in six states to be inserted by a cooperative VP, Mike Pence. Chesebro candidly admitted:

I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy, and that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on January 6. But as long as it is one possible option, to preserve it as a possibility it is important that the Trump-Pence electors cast their electoral votes on December 14.

Chesebro though that even the conservative Supreme Court would eventually find that the power to count votes lies solely in Congress and not in the President of the Senate. His suggested strategy would at least buy more time for Trump to win some litigation allowing him to stay in power, as in Bush v. Gore. As the plotters lost case after case in the courts, they became more desparate.

Another fact is now clear: Team Crazy endorsed the raising of a mob to assault the Capitol, which could pose a physical threat to anyone, especially Mike Pence whom Don 'Legit' identified by name on the Ellipse, who did not want to go along with the coup plot. Trump was informed that the crowd was armed, yet he told them to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Chesebro's writing makes it plausibly impossible to deny that Trump was the leader of a bona fide attempt to overthrow the United States government, by force if necessary. That crime is labelled "sedition" in the US criminal code, punishable by up to twenty years in prison.  Just ask Rupert Murdoch.


credit: M. Lukovitch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution