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Cheese, Bro those co-conspirator trials will explode when Previous Guy claims non compos mentis [1]

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Date: 2023-08-09

Slowly we churn, step-by-step, as the co-conspirators truly were “all the president’s men” (You know it’s a problem when your lawyer is not willing to say he’s advising you to follow the plan he’s proposing). Nothing worse than bad memos, especially when Chuck Grassley mentions one day prior that his pro tempore and pro forma role includes substituting for VP Pence.

Daily Mail reported that Chesebro ‘devised a plan for “Pence to recuse himself from presiding over the certification of electoral college votes on Jan 6 so that a senior Senate Republican could refuse to count votes from states won by…Biden,’ per an email.” x The idea for Pence to recuse and allow Grassley take over on January 6th came from Ken Chesebro.



He proposed it in an email to Rudy Giuliani on Dec 13, which he also sent to John Eastman on Jan 2nd, and again on Jan 4th.



One of Eastman’s Chapman emails:https://t.co/1LXyZQqnkP pic.twitter.com/vRW5RPVgU2 — ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) August 8, 2023

Trump Says He Faces 561 Years in Prison because among many things, he acted in furtherance of crimes. Apparently, the current argument is "a Trump TRULY believed he won the election and therefore did not commit a crime" angle essentially claiming that if you have narcissistic personality disorder you're allowed to commit fraud. Also, Trump called Mike Pence “too honest”. On the bright side, he can get TikTok in prison.

The New York Times has obtained a copy of the Dec. 6, 2020, memo written by Donald Trump-supporting lawyer Kenneth Chesebro that federal prosecutors have cited as a key piece of evidence in their case against Trump and, likely, against some of of his so-far-unindicted co-conspirators. The contents of the memo aren't too surprising to anyone who was paying attention to the House investigation of the Trump White House's Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt. It does, however, spell out the intent of the co-conspirators quite plainly, as they hatched a plan for losing slates of Trump electors to sign documents purporting them to be their states' true electors, slates which would then be passed to Trump's vice president during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress. [...] Specifically—but only if all six States are still contested, and all six slates of Trump-Pence electors had voted on December 14—I think the count could be managed so that Biden would have to seek Supreme Court review either when he is behind 12-0 in the electoral count or, at latest, when he is behind 232-227. www.dailykos.com/...

x The thing that stands out to me the most in the newly obtained Chesebro memo is the part where he says we gotta act like this is normal, so put your idiots on TV and admit to the coup so it seems routine. To normalize what they knew to be illegal. pic.twitter.com/oOhHFJ85hT — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 9, 2023

Conservative attorney George Conway said Donald Trump doesn’t have many options after being arraigned on Thursday on charges related to his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Conway told The Washington Post’s “Please, Go On” podcast that an insanity defense “actually might be his best defense because he does give the appearance of being completely out of his mind.” But ultimately even that approach wouldn’t work. “He does know the difference between right and wrong, as illustrated in the documents case,” in which Trump allegedly tried to have the surveillance video of the documents being moved destroyed. “He knows it’s bad. He knows what he had done is wrong and he needed to cover it up,” Conway said. “So he does have the capacity to understand the difference between truth and lies and between right and wrong. He just doesn’t care.” news.yahoo.com/...

x An updated Justice-ometer. We’re in the weird position right now where trump is indicted, but the co-conspirator generals (Rudy, Chesebro, Clark, Eastman, Powell, Epshteyn, etc) and the lieutenants (Stone, Bannon, Flynn, MoC, etc) have yet to be charged. pic.twitter.com/sMS2TsQPkq — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 9, 2023

x When crooked Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro laid out his plan to steal the election, he said he was “not necessarily advising” adopting the “controversial” plan.



You know it’s a problem when your lawyer is not willing to say he’s advising you to follow the plan he’s proposing. pic.twitter.com/dPmF8z90dH — Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) August 9, 2023 But even if the plan did not ultimately pass legal muster at the highest level, Mr. Chesebro argued that it would achieve two goals. It would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and “buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column.” The memo had been a missing piece in the public record of how Mr. Trump’s allies developed their strategy to overturn Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. In mid-December, the false Trump electors could go through the motions of voting as if they had the authority to do so. Then, on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence could unilaterally count those slates of votes, rather than the official and certified ones for Mr. Biden. www.nytimes.com/...

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