02-16-2022, 05:31 PM
An update on the Green Bay Sweep:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/us/politics/jan-6-subpoenas-trump.html
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.
The use of bogus slates was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.
Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.
In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump”....
The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election. It began even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminated in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to certify the election outcome.
Hope they can get the final report out before elections this year.
For those who have forgotten, "The Green Bay Sweep" was Navarro's name for a Trump Team plot to create alternative electors from seven states, which were sent to the Senate and National Archives to "create questions" about the validity of the actual electors. Pence was then supposed to halt or reject certification of electors until the individual states could "clarify" which slate of electors was the correct one. The direct goal was to create spectacle--air time not controlled by the MSM--in which Americans would for two days see legislators arguing about whether the election results were valid, and so doubt Biden's win en mass. Beyond that, it's not clear what Bannon, Navarro, Guiliano and Trump expected. There was hope among plotters that the election could be thrown to the house by default, where each state would have a single vote, giving Trump the election, despite Biden's winning the popular vote by 7 million AND the electoral college.
The attempt to steal the election is documented with both video (e.g., the attempt of Michigan alternative electors to get into their state house) and the alternative slates signed by fake electors--real people, who were coordinated from some still murky center, which probably included Giuliani and Trump himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/us/politics/jan-6-subpoenas-trump.html
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.
The use of bogus slates was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.
Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.
In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump”....
The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election. It began even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminated in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to certify the election outcome.
Hope they can get the final report out before elections this year.
For those who have forgotten, "The Green Bay Sweep" was Navarro's name for a Trump Team plot to create alternative electors from seven states, which were sent to the Senate and National Archives to "create questions" about the validity of the actual electors. Pence was then supposed to halt or reject certification of electors until the individual states could "clarify" which slate of electors was the correct one. The direct goal was to create spectacle--air time not controlled by the MSM--in which Americans would for two days see legislators arguing about whether the election results were valid, and so doubt Biden's win en mass. Beyond that, it's not clear what Bannon, Navarro, Guiliano and Trump expected. There was hope among plotters that the election could be thrown to the house by default, where each state would have a single vote, giving Trump the election, despite Biden's winning the popular vote by 7 million AND the electoral college.
The attempt to steal the election is documented with both video (e.g., the attempt of Michigan alternative electors to get into their state house) and the alternative slates signed by fake electors--real people, who were coordinated from some still murky center, which probably included Giuliani and Trump himself.
![[Image: 4CV0TeR.png]](https://i.imgur.com/4CV0TeR.png)
