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applegrove

(118,460 posts)
Mon Sep 12, 2022, 07:42 PM Sep 2022

Trump Aide Behind Fake Electors Identified

Trump Aide Behind Fake Electors Identified

September 12, 2022 at 6:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/12/trump-aide-behind-fake-electors-identified/

"SNIP.....

“A little-known Donald Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors to Capitol Hill in a bid to get them to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021,” Politico reports.

“Mike Roman, then Trump’s 2020 director of Election Day operations, delivered those false elector certificates — signed by pro-Trump activists in Michigan and Wisconsin — to Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-Pa.) chief of staff at the time, both people told POLITICO. Kelly was a Trump ally in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and his then-top aide received the documents from Roman before deputizing a colleague to disseminate copies on Capitol Hill.”

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Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)
1. I could be wrong but I think he went to work for Ron Johnson around the 20th of January, 2021...
Mon Sep 12, 2022, 07:51 PM
Sep 2022

I could be wrong... his name stands out though.

And than there's this...

Roman, whose 25-person intelligence-gathering unit was officially disbanded by the Kochs in 2016, was hired by Donald Trump’s campaign to oversee poll-watching in the final weeks before the election and was among a handful of unannounced hires who quietly joined the White House soon after Trump’s inauguration.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/11/trump-oppo-researcher-roman-403138

OverBurn

(942 posts)
6. How can Anyone involved in this Fake Electors Scheme not go to jail, for a long time?
Mon Sep 12, 2022, 09:20 PM
Sep 2022

Seems like a major crime to me or should be. I don't know the law.

blogslug

(37,981 posts)
7. Also...
Mon Sep 12, 2022, 09:30 PM
Sep 2022



Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly


Remember the guy who blew up the New Black Panther Party polling place video in Philly circa 2008, and then continued to run that same playbook for Trump in 2016 and 2020? He just had his phone seized by the FBI.

This guy:

(Reilly retweets himself)

Mike Roman, who rose to prominence by helping scare white people about two guys from the New Black Panther Party when Barack Obama was elected, tried to run the same game plan in Philly for Trump in 2020, but failed miserably (because mass voter fraud isn’t a thing).

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