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Roger Stone Caught on Tape Discussing Trump’s Plan to Challenge 2024 Election
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I wonder if they're actually dumb enough to try the false electors scheme twice in a row?
They got caught are being convicted right now for doing it in 2020, and everybody is expecting it now.
Whatever the result they’re going to keep trying again. Why wouldn’t they when there are virtually no consequences? Fascists don’t give a damn about what election results say, they’re always going to try to gain power by any means necessary.
Well that's what I mean.
There are so far very severe consequences. Lawyers have been disbarred, dozens of people have been charged, the trials are ongoing right now and more charges are occurring from more agencies. there are a whole lot of legal consequences which is why i am wondering if they're going to do it again.
They don't care about election results, but they do care about legal consequences.
They only care about the legal consequences that affect THEM. There's always another idiot lawyer ready to get disbarred.
Right, that's the nice part about legal consequences for them. They care about those legal consequences.
The trials are being sandbagged by republican judges, nobody is actually getting punished for trying to steal the election. They're gonna do it again.
That's happening more with The classified documents case, not with the fake electors.
Good news, The fake elector charges and trials are actually going through without a hitch, have a lot of defendants informing on co-defendants. Several defendants have already pled guilty, participants are being arrested, more charges are coming, there's actually a lot going on with this case.
What about the one in DC run by Judge Chutkan that's on indefinite hold thanks to the Supreme Court?
What about the one in Georgia that is on indefinite hold thanks to the Georgia Supreme Court?
Those seem pretty hitched to me.
As far as I'm aware, the supreme Court we're not indefinite.
The supreme Court is a piece of s*** don't get me wrong, but I'm pretty sure that trial is still going on.
And Trump's lawyer admitted that "private acts of a sitting president are not entitled to immunity".
Yeah, so that's going well.
Georgia, that one is currently on hold, but it doesn't negate all of the other ongoing cases against him and none of the charges are going away.
But who is the defendant in the fake electors trial? This isn't one where Trump himself is on the docket, right?
It would be strange if he wasn't eventually charged since he was definitely part of the plot.
This is a case that goes across eight states with dozens of defendants, some have already pled guilty, many are working with the prosecutors to provide testimony against peer and higher co-defendants.
Trump hasn't been charged yet, but people are still getting charged for the fake electors scheme every month, and since he was on the phone with these people convincing them to forge and mail in the documents, I can't see why he wouldn't be charged.
It's being investigated right now as to how to charge Trump, since he was personally involved in this scheme.
He'll probably be one of the last people charged.
Especially now that he was already convicted once and it isn't taboo or anything to charge him with felonies.
There are so many defendants, this was such a huge conspiracy that most of the trial still haven't started, and several defendants haven't been arraigned.
But it's going forward!
Uh... If you don't want your election stolen, you, uh, you gotta vote. Vote so hard they can't steal it. Make your friends vote. Make your friends' friends vote.
Because if we don't win this year, we don't get to have any more elections. No more voting. We're getting rid of it because your don't vote good.
I, uh, have voted in every election I've been eligible to vote in.
I'm pretty sure they'll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.
That's basically Texas and Florida right now
You sound like a MAGA moron. Also encouraging people not to vote, and encouraging people to not vote for Biden elsewhere in the thread. Sus.
They will. And they'll take it to the Supreme Court, where they'll just install Trump as the winner of the election. Mark my words.
Humbug. I take cynicism lightly.
They didn't get past mailing in the forged documents last time, and they have a worse chance this time.
They'd have to do something different, like state legislatures passing laws that say they don't have to listen to appointed electors.
That's already failed, but that's the tack I think they'll try to refine, since they're approaching it so poorly right now and direct forgeries don't work
I would think that failure just exposes points of improvement. They failed before, but now they know how to succeed. :(
I think that's just distant fatalism.
It's not like they can forge the documents better this time.
They'll have to try completely different, like changing State legislatures to somehow ignore election results or claim that the state can use their own electors.
Most of the people who forged the documents or participated in the conspiracy the last time are going to be pretty busy in trial or testifying in trials.
Dozens of people, anyone significantly involved in the fake electors scheme is facing charges or will be facing charges soon, many of them have already pled guilty.
I hope you're right!
yeah. I doubt they would do that unless there was a precedence set for a court to determine a presidential election.
There is. Bush v Gore
That was technically a procedure to allow or disallow a recount of a specific vote in a specific district in Florida. And yes, the Supreme Court will be ruling on those again.
Gore vs Bush...
If it works then you get to convict the other side for being fake.
Sure. But there are less idiotic and more effective ways to try to seize power.
Literally forging documents and sending them in two institutions that verify documents is pretty dumb.
Resulting in legal consequences already.
You're still assuming those bodies operate in good faith. Democrats must win the house and senate to ensure that.
Nope, I'm not assuming these bodies operate in good faith.
I'm taking what happened before into account and the outrage and legal culpability for a large scale, lazy conspiracy, and making a prediction based on that.
They are dumb enough to try a bunch of other stuff, including violence, again though.
them? double down?! surely not.
Who is being convicted? It sounds like nobody's been convicted yet, so they're wiling to try it again. Also who cares if some false elector goes to jail? Not Trump. Not the dirty ratfucker.
Well, as a personal conspirator in this game, dumps is certainly liable.
He's been indicted in Georgia. And by the doj, so dumps will have to fight those charges of conspiracy.
This is such a huge case investigated by so many agencies that everyone isn't even charged yet 4 years later.
So the convictions will take time, but at least eight people, including chesebro and other planning-level agents, have actively been working with every investigation testify to the involvement of the others.
The trials and convictions are still ongoing, but a few trials have finished.
I only know about the ones that have pled guilty and are informing on others. But none of this is halted or not happening, it's just that the trials and sentencing are still going on.
No. Instead they're gonna have state legislature throw out the results of the election. Which they can probably do, Constitutionally-speaking.
The State legislature pick the electors. Just because they all use a popular vote to do it doesn't mean they can't change the law in between the voting in November and the actual election in December.
Ha, I've answered that two or three times to other people here!
I agree that changing or interpreting the law to pick stricty conservative electors is their next strategy， but I don't think it's going to be as simple or successful as they imagine.
Sort of like how they didn't realize sending in forged documents was very likely to fail.
Forged documents are illegal. Changing laws regarding how electors are selected isn't.
Heck - way back in 2000 the Supreme Court hinted at the tactic in the majority opinion in Bush v Gore, saying that the Florida legislature probably could have just selected electors directly after the vote.
Actually, a lot of the fake electors tried to use the defense that there's no specific law against fake elector documents.
Colorado just signed a law that says fake electors are illegal.
Landscape's a lot turnier then it looks