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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 11:32 PM Jan 2022

Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump

Exclusive emails obtained by Rolling Stone expose an attempt to recertify the state as a victory for Donald Trump — and reveal top Trumpworld figures were complicit

By ANDY KROLL

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The technology was complicated, but the plan was simple: Scan mail-in and absentee ballots in populous Maricopa County, remove the “invalid votes,” and recertify the state’s 2020 election count, surely declaring then-President Donald Trump the rightful winner.

This scheme to subvert the election outcome in Arizona is laid out in newly released emails obtained by Rolling Stone. Sent in early December 2020, the emails cover a critical moment when the post-election push by Trump and Republican allies to find fraud and overturn the presidential election was in full swing.

The emails show how a group of fringe election sleuths pressed state legislators on a plan to disrupt the 2020 election certification and potentially change the vote count in a battleground state that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency. The emails also reveal that several Trump advisers, including campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis and legal adviser Bernie Kerik, were included in the discussion.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maga-emails-arizona-trump-2020-election-1287447/

I just wonder if that Waldon critter is going to be called to testify....

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Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2022 OP
Ay, ay ay! Ay, ay, ay, ay ay! dchill Jan 2022 #1
K&r Takket Jan 2022 #2
This is just the tip of the iceberg... Pachamama Jan 2022 #3
"legal adviser Bernie Kerik?" PSPS Jan 2022 #4
He could advise them on prison life Sanity Claws Jan 2022 #6
This Is Gonna Make Great Primetime TV WHITT Jan 2022 #5
Love that you're reclaiming the meme malaise Jan 2022 #7
"Start the Steal" is much more accurate than "Stop the Steal". kentuck Jan 2022 #8

dchill

(38,468 posts)
1. Ay, ay ay! Ay, ay, ay, ay ay!
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 12:06 AM
Jan 2022

Even their college graduates are so silly, so stupid. So gullible and shallow.

Takket

(21,555 posts)
2. K&r
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 12:06 AM
Jan 2022

Hope this Walden bozo gets subpoenaed.

Just goes to show all they ever had was theories of how fraud might occur. Never a shred of proof. And they conflated that knowingly into the Big Lie.

All this just to protect drumpf’s ego. It still blows my mind that this uncharismatic slob gets all these people to go to bat for him.

PSPS

(13,590 posts)
4. "legal adviser Bernie Kerik?"
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 03:08 AM
Jan 2022

Kerik is the disgraced former NYPD commissioner under Giuliani who, besides having a very checkered past in law enforcement and elsewhere, is a convicted felon without any legal education at all. Yet they use him as a "legal adviser?"

Sanity Claws

(21,846 posts)
6. He could advise them on prison life
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 08:19 AM
Jan 2022

and how to commit crime. But advise them on legal compliance? You are right; he can't do that.

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
5. This Is Gonna Make Great Primetime TV
Mon Jan 24, 2022, 04:27 AM
Jan 2022

Forget 'Who Shot JR?', it's gonna be 'Who Helped Donnie Carry Out A Domestic Terrorist Attack?' and 'Who Helped Donnie With The Fascist Coup Plot?'.

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