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More than a dozen of the charges filed against Donald Trump in Georgia go back to a convoluted scheme to cast Biden's Electoral College win into doubt.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday charged former President Donald Trump and 18 other people with more than 40counts related to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. It’s a case Willis has been building for 18 months, having launched her probe just one month after it became clear just how overt Trump had been in trying to subvert the will of Georgia’s voters.
The inciting incident, so to speak, was clear: Trump’s now infamous call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he insisted that officials could “find 11,000 votes” to flip Joe Biden’s win. But that was just the most straightforward element of the plan. One of the central components in the indictment involves a scheme to use a supposed quirk in election law to replace the state’s 16 presidential electors with an unauthorized alternative slate. Accordingly, a full 17 of the charges against Trump and his co-defendants are related to this plot.
At least eight of these fake electors have agreed to immunity deals with Willis. While the scheme was ultimately unsuccessful, Willis’ indictment makes it clear that the corrupt attempt to sow chaos in the counting of electoral votes involved Trump and his co-conspirators lying to everyone, including their own supposed allies, in his bid to retain power.
After every presidential election, members of the Electoral College meet to cast their votes for president. These electors are part of a slate chosen ahead of the election to support each of the candidates. Whichever candidate wins the popular vote has their slate of electors cast their votes, which are submitted to Congress for counting on Jan. 6.
That’s exactly what happened in every state, including Georgia, on Dec. 14, 2020. That should have been the end of it, but, under the direction of Rudy Giuliani, then Trump’s lawyer, the Republican slate of pro-Trump electors also assembled in Georgia and six other states to cast their votes.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc...t-georgia-fani-willis-fake-electors-rcna91202
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday charged former President Donald Trump and 18 other people with more than 40counts related to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. It’s a case Willis has been building for 18 months, having launched her probe just one month after it became clear just how overt Trump had been in trying to subvert the will of Georgia’s voters.
The inciting incident, so to speak, was clear: Trump’s now infamous call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he insisted that officials could “find 11,000 votes” to flip Joe Biden’s win. But that was just the most straightforward element of the plan. One of the central components in the indictment involves a scheme to use a supposed quirk in election law to replace the state’s 16 presidential electors with an unauthorized alternative slate. Accordingly, a full 17 of the charges against Trump and his co-defendants are related to this plot.
At least eight of these fake electors have agreed to immunity deals with Willis. While the scheme was ultimately unsuccessful, Willis’ indictment makes it clear that the corrupt attempt to sow chaos in the counting of electoral votes involved Trump and his co-conspirators lying to everyone, including their own supposed allies, in his bid to retain power.
After every presidential election, members of the Electoral College meet to cast their votes for president. These electors are part of a slate chosen ahead of the election to support each of the candidates. Whichever candidate wins the popular vote has their slate of electors cast their votes, which are submitted to Congress for counting on Jan. 6.
That’s exactly what happened in every state, including Georgia, on Dec. 14, 2020. That should have been the end of it, but, under the direction of Rudy Giuliani, then Trump’s lawyer, the Republican slate of pro-Trump electors also assembled in Georgia and six other states to cast their votes.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc...t-georgia-fani-willis-fake-electors-rcna91202
