Here's how the Trump faction planned to overthrow the newly elected government:

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Twitter replies:

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[KS Toronado]

2. Prayers to give "their" leaders wisdom & courage???????

Appears the Good Lord only tapped on the shoulders of 2 Rs, and both are now on the Jan 6th Select Committee.
Meanwhile, TV Evangelicals have stopped telling their viewers to pray for the President. Believe they're praying
to a god with horns and a pitchfork, maybe a golden toilet.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Thank you for posting this

[brush]

3. The idiots actually thought they could occupy the Capitol building...

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until they figured out a way to get Pence to nullify the election results? And they would also get loyalists in place in the DOD?

Seriously?

They actually thought that that would work, that the rest of the people in the nation, the Military, local, state and national elected officials, the media, everyone would all just roll over and kowtow to that loosely thrown together set of assumptions that overthrowing the government to keep trump as president despite election results would be that easy.

[L. Coyote]

11. Republicans got away with fixing 2000 and 2004.

And who knows how many other elections? Even 2016 was highly suspect, just 40,000 voters in three states elected Mr. "find 11,780 votes" for me.

emptywheel: DoJ investigating Stone, Giuliani, former officials, et.al.

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12. For sure they've been involved with behind the scenes maneuerings before...

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but and open insurrection the nation saw on national TV...

That was never going to work, no matter what stupid plans the trump cabal put together.

[Duppers]

4. Bookmarking for later.

TY for posting this.

[Chicago1980]

5. Eastman's Plan was called "The Green Bay Sweep".

Peter Navarro basically spilled those beans on with The Washington Post & on Ari Melber's show.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-advisor-peter-navarro-lays-out-how-he-and-steve-bannon-planned-to-overturn-bidens-electoral-win

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[Scrivener7]

6. They will be smarter next time.

[peggysue2]

7. Fascinating article in the Guardian, the one listed above

Blumenthal maps out the coup and resultant insurrection in chilling detail; how the coup itself took shape far earlier than we realized; and the scope of players, those involved in the planning and funding, the massive nature of this gaggle of traitors.

The conspiracy ran wide and deep within far right circles because they believed they could pull it off. That quote assigned to Jody Hice (GA rep) is mind-boggling as he screamed into his phone: Y'all fucked it up. It clarifies the statement from a number of the co-conspirators like Andy Clyde who claimed the assault was 'orderly, nothing more than a tourist event,' yet video shows him terror stricken, wild-eyed as the mob breached the chambers. That terror was obviously two-pronged: genuine fear of the violence and the sudden knowledge that indeed 'they'd fucked it up.'

The revelations through documents and testimony make the complicity, the unspeakable sedition of the Republican Party all the more horrifying. Those involved (active and behind the scenes) and those who have tried to erase the assault for what it was are all guilty as sin.

Let the public events/testimony begin! Blow the roof off, indeed.

[jalan48]

9. From the article.

More than a year before the election of 2020, in August 2019, conservative operatives in closely connected rightwing organizations began preparing a strategy for disputing election results. A “Political Process Working Group” focused on “election law and ballot integrity” was launched by Lisa Nelson, the CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), heavily funded by the Koch brothers’ dark money syndicate, the Donors Trust.

Nelson is also a member of the secretive Council on National Policy (CNP), composed of more than 400 rightwing Republican leaders, a roster that includes Ginni Thomas, the ubiquitous rightwing zealot and wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, and Leonard Leo, vice-president of the conservative Federalist Society and the Judicial Crisis Network, “a $250m dark money operation” to pack the federal courts and deny Democratic appointments to the bench, according to the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

The investigative reporter Anne Nelson, in her book Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, describes the CNP as a nexus of “the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of western plutocrats and the strategy of rightwing Republican political operatives”.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/06/capitol-attack-coup-attempt-trump-far-right-republicans

[jalan48]

10. More from article

Of the thousands involved in the Capitol riot, 725 so far have been charged with various crimes. But those sentenced, mostly true believer foot soldiers of the Trump mob, were not the originators of the coup, the most dangerous sedition against the constitutional order since secession. Nor were the leaders of the militias, of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters, present at the creation.

The 6 January attack was a spawn of the coup; it was its effect, not its alpha and omega. Only those incited to sacrifice themselves in the Pickett’s Charge of the insurrection have paid the price, but none of those who conceived the coup a year earlier have been brought before a federal grand jury, charged, or apparently are even being investigated by the Department of Justice.

It would be as if only the Watergate burglars were prosecuted and that was the end of the affair. All of the higher-ups involved in the scandal – chief of staff Bob Haldeman, his deputy John Ehrlichman, attorney general John Mitchell, the entire cast of complicit characters and President Richard Nixon – would have remained untouched in power.

[Cha]

13. Rt TY!

[tanyev]

14. Kick.