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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 10:27 PM Dec 2022

Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors

LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.

The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020.

That day, six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that Trump won Nevada in 2020 and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is digging into the role that these fake electors in key battleground states had in Trump’s attempt to cling to power after his 2020 defeat.

McDonald and DeGraffenreid invoked Fifth Amendment protection hundreds of times in their separate interviews with the Jan. 6 committee, refusing to answer questions about their involvement and the extent to which Trump's top allies had helped in orchestrating the plot.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/transcripts-reveal-link-between-trump-nevada-fake-electors/ar-AA15A8kQ

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Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2022 OP
Sending faked elector slates should be treason. joshcryer Dec 2022 #1
Excellent post. mobeau69 Dec 2022 #3
Excellent.. on Record! TY! nt Cha Dec 2022 #2
For some reason, I wasn't aware of false Nevada electors. Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #4
84 fake electors from AZ, GA, MI, NM, NV, PA, and WI. joshcryer Dec 2022 #5

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
1. Sending faked elector slates should be treason.
Thu Dec 22, 2022, 10:30 PM
Dec 2022

Every single person in on it should be going to jail for treason.

I thought that they just sent them to Congress or something like that but no they actually legitimately sent them to the Archives and were going to have Mike Pence count them instead of the legal and true electors. This thing was an actual bonified treasonous conspiracy and it blows my mind that the media is not really driving this home. This is a big deal. This isn't some kind of "free speech" or "symbolic" thing. They actually sent fake electors. They actually signed fake elector sheets. They actually intended to count them after taking the capitol.

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