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"The best comprehensive explanation yet of why the weird sounding fake electors plot was at the center of the 2020 coup attempt and why it's likely the map prosecutors will use to charge the crime." -Josh Marshall (Founder)
"I strongly suspect this will eventually serve as a cheat sheet to understanding any criminal charges brought against higher ups for the 2020 election subversion scheme." -David Kurtz (Executive Editor)
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Here's a new way of thinking about the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Instead of a series of disconnected, disparate schemes all aimed at the same goal, the fake electors plot provides a lens through which to view the entire effort, giving Trump's 2020 plans a coherence, with each piece fitting neatly together. Now, two years after the violence of Jan. 6, this fresh look at the scheme reinforces how efforts to spread conspiracy theories, subvert the DOJ, weaponize state legislatures, summon an angry mob and, ultimately, pressure the vice president on Jan. 6 were all part of the same plot, with fake electors at the center.
Importantly, it's a scheme that may carry criminal liability as federal prosecutors continue their investigation.
This new understanding of the fake electors plot is drawn from the Jan. 6 committee's now-released materials, and from other reporting conducted by TPM, including a review of the texts Mark Meadows turned over to the committee. It also comes as Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis weighs whether to issue indictments after her year-long investigation of Trump. Willis has focused on the fake electors in her investigation, probing not only the electors themselves but the attorneys and officials on the Trump campaign who organized them.
TPM reported in summer 2022 on how the fake electors scheme could give the DOJ a way in to Trump's election reversal effort, and on how they unite different portions of the broader universe of Trump's bid to stay in power, against the will of the American people.
But a closer look at the record made available by texts, documents, and other records shows precisely how central the fake electors were to the various schemes that Trump and his allies had going — they were the mechanism that, in Trumpworld's thinking, could at any point from early December until Jan. 6 have allowed pressure on state legislators, officials, Congress, Mike Pence, and the Supreme Court to turn into actions that would flip the result.
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