.MaddowBlog: Who was responsible for the fake electors scheme after the 2020 elections? New memos directly implicate former President Trump's team.
, pretending to be"duly elected and qualified electors," and sent the documents to, among others, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Archivist, as if the fake materials were legitimate. As the controversy has taken shape, answering the"why" question has been fairly easy.That said, the answers continue to come into sharper focus.
The memo ... may not have been the first time that lawyers and allies of Mr. Trump had weighed the possibility of naming their own electors in the hopes that they might eventually succeed in flipping the outcome in battleground states through recounts and lawsuits baselessly asserting widespread fraud. But the Nov. 18 memo and another three weeks later are among the earliest known efforts to put on paper proposals for preparing alternate electors. They helped to shape a crucial strategy that Mr.
Note the timeline of events: Election Day 2020 was Nov. 3; Joe Biden was declared the president-elect on Nov. 7; and we now know that on Nov. 18, Team Trump was circulating materials sketching out a scheme to overturn the election results by way of forged documents and fake electors. This was not a freelance operation. It'd be a different kind of story if assorted Trump fans coincidentally engaged in a live-action-role-playing fantasy, simultaneously and independently coming up with the idea of creating fraudulent election materials as keepsakes., in the hopes that the gambit would convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to recognize those pretending to be"duly elected and qualified electors.
In case this all wasn't quite clear enough, this same second memo also spelled out where the forged election materials needed to be sent.
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