And since I’m preternaturally lazy, I’ll let Mr. Sumner summarize the plot:
Now, further memos turned up by The New York Occasions display how this effort went ahead in Wisconsin, working in lockstep with different authorized challenges as Trump’s staff sought to present the impression {that a} clear victory for Biden was by some means “in dispute.” Simply two weeks after the election, a memo was despatched out to Trump campaigns telling Republicans in Wisconsin to maneuver forward, collect the false electors on Dec. 14, and have them solid their invalid votes for Trump. […]
Every day appears to make it clearer that the coup plot wasn’t some passing fancy that by no means made it outdoors the White Home. It was an in depth operation, deliberate and executed over a interval of months, that concerned Republicans at each attainable stage—together with Trump’s total authorized, marketing campaign, and White Home groups.
And right here’s how the Occasions reported on the memos:
The 2 memos, obtained by The New York Occasions, had been utilized by Mr. Trump’s high lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and others like John Eastman as they developed a method supposed to use ambiguities within the Electoral Rely Act, in accordance with an individual acquainted with the matter.
The memos had been initially meant to handle Mr. Trump’s problem to the end result in Wisconsin, however they in the end grew to become a part of a broader dialog by members of Mr. Trump’s authorized staff because the president seemed towards Jan. 6 and commenced to exert stress on Mr. Pence to carry up certification of the Electoral Faculty depend.
In fact, if you wish to play satan’s advocate—or, extra precisely, Devil’s asshole’s advocate—you may say, “Nicely, Trump was simply doing every thing in his energy to set proper the results of an election he knew in his coronary heart he’d gained—as a result of he’s such a dogged defender of democracy and the rule of legislation, which he lately learn all about beneath the ‘assist Dottie discover her kitten’ maze on his Denny’s youngsters’ placemat.”
Bzzzt, mistaken.
Certainly, in response to the Occasions‘ new report, elections professional David Becker, govt director of the Heart for Election Innovation and Analysis and a CBS Information contributor, famous that Trump certainly knew he was mendacity when his flying monkeys had been flitting about the continent ripping the stuffing out of our republic.
For the nontweeters:
“Essential to notice that the identical day the Trump marketing campaign despatched a memo to WI looking for to overturn the need of WI voters, 11/18, was the deadline for Trump to demand a statewide recount, which he declined to do.
“And it was 2 weeks earlier than WI’s deadline to certify the election. In essence, what this reporting demonstrates is that Trump was making an attempt to overturn outcomes that weren’t even licensed but, and which he didn’t assume had been worthy of statewide recount.”
Now, I ought to be aware that technically, this doesn’t show that Trump was knowingly mendacity about “profitable” Wisconsin. I can display this with a easy thought experiment.
You see, any Trump assertion stays in a state of superposition during which—in Trump’s thoughts, at the least—it’s each true and unfaithful. So he’s concurrently each stuffed with shit and never stuffed with shit till an observer notes the lie and collapses the wave operate, at which level—in accordance with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum dipshittery—Trump’s shitfulness, or lack thereof, might be exactly decided. However as he stays on this state of superposition—i.e., earlier than his lies are noticed—he’s each as much as his goofy eyeballs in horrifically overprocessed McNugget slag and not packed stem to stern in gross Mickey D’s detritus.
And this, as you already certainly know, is the basic paradox generally known as Schrödinger’s scat.
Critically, although, I don’t assume Trump can truly inform the distinction between actuality and fantasy anymore, and extra importantly, it’s clear he doesn’t care. The reality is principally irrelevant to him—he simply picks no matter model of actuality makes him look the least like a seditious blobfish.
And, for sure, his model of actuality is shared by no critical particular person on the planet. However you knew that already, didn’t you?
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