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Eastman called later in the month anyway, asking him to take a vote to decertify the electors because they had plenary authority to do so. (Editorial: this is bonkers.) #HATH

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Eastman said they could just... overrule the voters. #HATH

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"Just do it and let the courts figure it out." WTAF

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Eastman said "Just do it and let the courts sort it out." Bowers said: You want me to put my state through something novel and likely illegal? Not happening. #HATH

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Bowers told Trump he would not do anything illegal for him. Eastman said, do it and let the courts sort it out. #HATH

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Bowers. What he wanted was contrary to Constitution of US and state, both.

Andy Biggs also called Bowers. Wanted him to support the decertification of the electors. #HATH

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Bowers made a public statement, calling the pressure "breathtaking" and saying "the rule of law forbids us to do that." #HATH

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No legal pathway to execute such a request, says Bowers. #HATH

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Bowers's statement called on Reagan's inaugural, focusing on the orderly transfer of power, calling it "a miracle." Bowers talking about how much he admires (present tense) Reagan. #HATH

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Champions "the will of the people." (Editorial: Reagan's administration began the process of voter suppression.) #HATH

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Schiff: Trump and campaign tried to replace certified ballots with fake ones. #HATH

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November 18, Chesebro said campaign should organize its own electors in the swing states Trump had lost. Giuliani, Meadows, and congress members were involved. #HATH

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RNC directly involved in collecting the false electors. Trump wanted the RNC to help. Ronna McDaniel seems to be trying to get the RNC away from the mess. #HATH

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Jeffrey Clark said it wasn't okay. Some now say they wanted out, that the plan was illegal. #HATH

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Meadows, Giuliani, etc., knew it wasn't legal. A fake elector says they were "useful idiots," "rubes." Real lawyers had said they wanted nothing to do with it. Fake elector says no one cared if they were putting themselves in legal jeopardy. #HATH

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Fake electors told their slates would only count if courts said they should be. #HATH

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Fake electors met in secret. They were told they were working directly with the president's team. #HATH

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AZ, GA, MI, PA, NM, NV, WI, fake electors met and falsely claimed they were "duly elected" and submitted them to the National Archives. #HATH

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Eastman said it didn't matter that they were fake; the very fact they existed created confusion, and Pence should then reject both. #HATH

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Senator Johnson wanted to hand deliver false electors? (Did I hear that right?!? I might not have.) #HATH

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White House counsels office said this was not legally sound. Trump and crew did it anyway.

Bowers calls it "a tragic parody."

Bowers contemporary diary: "It is painful to have friends... turn on me with such rancor." But "I do not want to be a winner by cheating. I will not play with laws I swore allegiance to." #HATH

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Bowers heavy on the Christianity. (Likely to appeal to evangelicals.) #HATH

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Bowers and family targeted by Trump mobs. More than 20K emails and tens of thousands of voicemails. Stopped work under the saturation. Even now, protested every week, calling Bowers a pedophile and a pervert. Blaring loudspeakers. #HATH

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Threatening them and neighbors. One man threatening had a gun. His gravely ill daughter upset. "It was... disturbing. It was disturbing...." #HATH

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Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior

Trump is a symptom.

Elite criminal impunity is the disease.

Accountability is the road forward.

Accountability means holding the enablers to task as well. Officials who look the other way. Rotting institutions that long ago abandoned the American people and still do so now.

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Acyn
@Acyn

Text messages showing that Ron Johnson wanted to hand deliver fake electors to Pence

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Committee's back. Now Georgia.

Thompson reiterates that the investigation is still ongoing.

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Raffensperger. (I've written that name 6 million times.)

Trump supporter. Says that the election was "remarkably smooth," "successful."

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Raffensperger says Biden won by about 12K votes. And the state literally recounted every ballot in the state. Biden won.

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Trump asked for another count. Three counts all remarkably close to the same number. Trump lost.

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Now Sterling. Tried to push back on disinformation. Asked Trump directly to stop inspiring people to violence. "It's not right."

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That press conference was because a young contractor had been receiving threats thanks to a QAnon video and Sterling saw on Twitter that someone had put that man's name with a noose and said "May God have mercy on your soul." Sterling lost it.

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Trump didn't back off. Instead, he tweeted that there was "massive voter fraud in Georgia." That was false.

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Next day Trump released a video claiming thousands and thousands of votes "all out of whack... all against me."

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Then Giuliani goes to Georgia and starts conspiracy theory about "suitcases of ballots" run through counting machines in the middle of the night. All false.

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Giuliani calls it a "powerful smoking gun." Says those votes are illegitimate. Trump pushes the video footage even as Giuliani pushes out his testimony. All false. Sterling says they reviewed the entire video. It actually showed...

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Fulton County election workers engaging in normal ballot processing. The "suitcases" were election workers going home. They put ballots in secure boxes so they can go home, and putting them under the tables.

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They thought they were going home. Elections director said put your ass*s back in the chairs. (I paraphrase.) They take their coats off and take the ballots back out.