Insurrection Investigation, Con't

At least we know why former Trump WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows suddenly stopped cooperating with the January 6th Committee and now faces a Contempt of Congress vote: it's because some of the evidence Meadows turned over was a comically incriminating PowerPoint presentation where Meadows and his merry band of Trump regime coup-coup birds spelled out their plan to overturn the 2020 election.

The 36-page document, which was intended to be presented to members of Congress before they met in a joint session to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral college victory, opens with an allegation that the Chinese government “systematically gained control” over the US election system through “compromised” electronic voting machines which could not be trusted to provide an accurate vote count.

It further singles out eight states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico — as having had their results corrupted through “domestic voter fraud”.

The specific charges of how vote totals were “fixed” in favour of Mr Biden are largely in line with a grab bag of outlandish and false claims promulgated by people in former president Donald Trump’s inner circle during the period between 7 November — when most news organisations called the 2020 race for Mr Biden — and 6 January, when a mob of Mr Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in hopes of stopping Congress from carrying out its statutory duty to count each state’s electoral votes.

The presentation lays out a theory identical to that which was offered up by Trump campaign attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell at a now-infamous press conference held at Republican National Committee headquarters on 19 November 2020.

At the time, Ms Powell alleged that she had uncovered the “massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China, in the interference with our elections here in the United States”, and further claimed – without offering evidence – that voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems used software from a different voting system builder, Smartmatic, with both having been developed “at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election”.

None of what Ms Powell alleged about either Dominion or Smartmatic had any basis in reality, and both companies have subsequently filed billion-dollar defamation lawsuits against her.

The presentation also makes recommendations that match up with drastic demands made to a Defence Department official by another erstwhile ally of Mr Trump, ex-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Several slides lay out a scenario under which ballots in all 50 states would have been seized by the US Marshals Service and held for a 50-state hand recount conducted by “select federalized National Guard units” under supervision of a “trusted lead counter” to be appointed by Mr Trump.

 

In other words, they had an entire presentation ready to go about how Trump was going to overturn the election by having US Marshals seize ballots in all 50 states, and the goal was to justify it to the congressional GOP. It was planned for months. The only reason in failed was because of lack of execution and will, not lack of planning. They knew exactly how they were going to force a massive crisis and then stay in power.

All these scoundrels need a lifetime in prison. If they get back in power, we are undone, and millions will be killed.

It really is that simple.