Ene. 6 PowerPoint announced that many more Republicans were included in Trump’s coup plan

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Last week, a federal court agreed to schedule Steve Bannon’s contempt criminal trial in Congress for July next year-as the fall campaigns are in full swing. She was definitely excited. Bannon wanted nothing more than to have a big test on the show at that moment and be taken to jail where he could write his Great Replacement manifesto.

In the news that there was a PowerPoint presentation called “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for JAN 6”, reported here by Brett Bachman, Bannon’s revolutionary proclamations became clearer in his podcast on January 5. Remember what he said:

“Mitch McConnell needs to start being careful and focus on these senators – because it’s going to be very controversial. We’re going to go into unspecified waters. We’re going to go into something that has never happened in American history. Tomorrow it’s going-we’re going to pull the trigger on something that’s going to be, it’s going to be minute by minute, hour by hour, whatever happens. The stakes can’t be higher right now. “

“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen … Okay, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in.… You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready. ..Everyone is coming together, and now we are at the point of attacking tomorrow. “

It’s clear that people will suspect he’s talking about the violence that took place when Trump incited his people to converge on the Capitol and he could have been good. He and the others planning the Willard Hotel in the days before the insurgency were very close to groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who played a big role in the attack.

But it’s clear now that Bannon is also talking about the plans laid out in that PowerPoint presentation which includes some of what we know but also presents some pretty scary recommendations that add more detail to the undeniable coup attempt. . When he said, “We’re going into unspecified water. We’re going into something that has never happened before in American history,” he wasn’t joking.

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The presentation suggests that Mike Pence has more than one way to overthrow the election. As vice president, he can seat alternative Republican voters (who Rudy Giuliani and the boys are working feverishly to gather), he can reject electoral votes of Donald Trump’s disputed states (without evidence) or he or she may delay by refusing to be certified until there is a recount of all paper ballots. That latter coincidentally follows the fun proposal of Senator Ted Cruz, R-Tx, and 11 other senators who planned to postpone the count to conduct an “emergency audit” of Donald Trump’s disputed states to “restore confidence in the electoral system. ” Finally, Pence can just raise his hands and say there is no way to know the real outcome and throw it in the House of Representatives who will vote as if it were a tie and Trump will win under the rules that exist. each state delegation. one vote.

None of those recommendations are far from constitutional.

Meanwhile, PowerPoint also recommended that Trump explain to Congress the alleged foreign interference in the election, deem all electronic voting in the states invalid, declare a National Security Emergency and put the National Guard on standby . (Politico reported that Chief of Staff Mark Meadows ordered the guard to be available to “protect pro-Trump people.”) Here’s a little taste of what’s on their minds:

twitter.com/BetsyStover/status/1470250917668605956

PowerPoint also features some of the worst conspiracy theories that have surfaced after the election. One slide says that a “major Issue” is that “critical control of infrastructure has been used as part of an ongoing globalist/socialist operation to destroy the will of Voters in the United States and put an ally in China in the lead in another advising the president to say the Chinese government interfered in the election as an excuse to declare all electronic votes invalid.

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This presentation was released by the Commission on January 6th because it was set out in documents of former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that he voluntarily returned to the committee. It took a day or so before the person who spread it was identified – a former Army Colonel named Phil Waldron, who told the Washington Post that he worked with Trump’s lawyers to put it together. Waldron said he contributed things about the alien invasion and he claims he met in the Meadows 8-10 times and helped let members of Congress know before Jan. 6 what was on. they thought, telling the Post that the presentation recommendations were “constitutional, legal., feasible, acceptable and appropriate courses of action.” And he’s right – if you’re planning a coup in a banana republic.

None of the people who read this shameful betrayal of American democracy whistled. Well, with the exception of Lara Logan, the Fox News personality recently compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to the well -known Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. He tweeted a version of PowerPoint on January 5th but no one paid any attention because he lacked credibility. And yes, it was reported in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book “Peril” that Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina “reviewed” the fraud claims and determined it wouldn’t be prudent to overturn the election. I’m sure others are holding on to their pearls in the Senate cloakroom, worried about how dangerous the whole thing is as well. Not that they said anything in public, of course.

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We know that Trump has many different plans to overthrow the election. In memos prepared by right-wing lawyer John Eastman, Trump told Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to “just say the election was corrupt and leave it to me and the Republican Congressmen the rest” and threatened to replace him with a tody , Jeffrey Clark, if he refuses are just a few examples. All of this is extremely unethical.

But this PowerPoint emphasizes how desperate they are.

They threw everything against the wall in the hope that someone would stay, that enough Republicans in Congress would take one of the justifications they offered and agree to at least postpone certification or overturn it outright. When Vice President Mike Pence refused to come along, Trump tried one last gamble. He sent the angry mob he had just marched to the Capitol to give “weak” reluctant Republicans the “pride and courage” they needed to stop certification. This is why he sat on his hands for hours as his supporters stormed the Capitol.

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