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Dems are too nice to have an "Agenda 47" like Previous Guy's [1]
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Date: 2023-08-20
Unhingery continues. Doom could be here as soon as 2025.
2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 763,044 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and want Trump to be president.
THE FAKE ELECTOR SCHEME has always been the most clear-cut criminal violation arising out of the 2020 presidential election:
It doesn’t rise or fall on trying to figure out whether Trump “really believed” he won the election.
Even if Trump could somehow prove that the Georgia election was in fact stolen—as he rather preposterously promises to do in a press conference next week—it still wouldn’t be a defense to the fake elector scheme: two frauds don’t make a right. The one doesn’t cancel the other.
There’s no First Amendment right to commit fraud.
The idea that Trump or anybody else might have relied on advice of counsel that it’s somehow okay to participate in a fraudulent scheme that included forgery and false certifications of official documents is ludicrous on its face.
Time will tell whether the Fulton County grand jury’s decision to issue such a breathtakingly sweeping indictment was a stroke of genius or a too-heavy lift.
But one thing is already clear: District Attorney Fani Willis has Trump (and others) dead to rights on the fake elector scheme. If that alone had been charged, it would have been enough.
plus.thebulwark.com/...
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