Meet Mark Meadows and Sean Hannity
Headline: Washington Post 4/25/2022
Former Freedom Caucus Crazy Mark Meadows was Trump's chief of staff at the time.
“NC gonna be ok?” Hannity wrote in one text to Meadows on Nov. 3, 2020, according to the CNN report published on Monday — an apparent reference to Trump’s electoral prospects in the battleground state of North Carolina.
Meadows then asked for Hannity’s help with messaging, and offered him a slogan to convey to the host’s millions of radio show listeners. “Stress every vote matters,” Meadows wrote back. “Get out and vote. On radio.”
Hannity responded in the affirmative, writing back, “Yes sir. On it,” before adding, “any place in particular we need a push.”
When Meadows suggested Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, Hannity replied, “Got it. Everywhere.” (Trump won North Carolina but lost the other three states to President Biden.)
3/31/2022 update, "Gym Jordan, Trump confidante", starts here
Meet Gym Jordan
Washington Post, 3/29/2022
The records show that Trump had a 10-minute call starting at 9:24 a.m. with Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who worked closely with the Trump White House and was a key figure in pushing fellow GOP lawmakers to object to the certification of Biden’s election. \
Jordan has declined to cooperate with the House committee. The 10-minute call Trump had with Jordan was first reported by CNN.
3/30/2022 update starts here
Meet Steve Bannon
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (Wikimedia Commons; bars added)
Washington Post, 3/29/2022
The records show that former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon — who said on his Jan. 5 podcast that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow” — spoke with Trump twice on Jan. 6. In a call that morning, Bannon urged Trump to continue to pressure Pence to block congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, according to people familiar with the exchange. [emphasis added]
Meet Erik Prince
Trump 'spy'
Trump 'spy'
New York Times, 2/8/2022
Mr. Prince’s role in the effort, which has not been previously disclosed, sheds further light on how a group of ultraconservative Republicans employed spycraft to try to manipulate the American political landscape. Mr. Prince — a former C.I.A. contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Mr. Trump’s education secretary — has drawn scrutiny over the years for Blackwater’s record of violence around the world and his subsequent ventures training and arming foreign forces. [emphasis added]
His willingness to support Mr. Seddon’s operation is fresh evidence of his engagement in political espionage projects at home during a period when he was an informal adviser to Trump administration officials.
2/6/2022 update starts here
Meet Bill Feehan
Wisconsin fake elector
Wisconsin fake elector
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/4/2022
The account — given a year ago in a podcast by would-be elector Bill Feehan — provides one of the most detailed descriptions yet of a meeting that is now being scrutinized by federal prosecutors and the U.S. House committee investigating last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.
"I left my home a little after 8 o'clock and drove to a secret meeting place in Madison and met all the other electors there. There was security — armed security — to protect us. And other officials from the Republican Party of Wisconsin were there," Feehan said in a podcast that was posted online a month after the meeting.
“It’s all super secret for security reasons, so we met in a secret location. We waited for almost an hour before they took us to the state Capitol."\
2/4/2022 update starts here.
New York Times, 2/1/2022
2/3/2022 update, "Trump attorney and former Dane County judge Jim Troupis", starts here.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/2/2022
Jim Troupis, a former Dane County Circuit Court judge hired by Trump's campaign to oversee recounts, received a memo on Nov. 18, 2020, outlining the strategy, according to the New York Times. The memo arrived the same day Troupis filed paperwork on behalf of the Trump campaign to begin ballot recounts in the liberal-leaning and populous Dane and Milwaukee counties. [emphasis added]
December 6, 2020
With Trump's election-stealing
game plan in hand....
A former judge representing the Trump campaign said state election officials and some local clerks “willfully determined” that they would not follow state law in administering the Nov. 3 election.What's worse, this shill applied for a vacancy on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court in 2016.
Check out his lists of campaign donations at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
2/2/2022 update, "LOCK THEM UP: Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino, Arizona's fake electors", starts here.
Arizona Republic, 1/28/2022
Trump lost the 2020 election in Arizona. Yet, 11 Republicans met at the Arizona Republican Party headquarters on Dec. 14, 2020, and signed a document that said they were “duly elected and qualified” electors for Arizona.
In total, seven states sent slates of alternate electors to the U.S. Senate.
The Select Committee of Congress subpoenaed the chairperson and secretary from each of those seven states who signed the certificates making the false claim.
In Arizona, the chairperson was Nancy Cottle; the secretary was Loraine Pellegrino.
Neither could immediately be reached for comment.
1/29/2022 update, "Andrew Hitt and Kelly Ruh for forging election documents", starts here
The committee has subpoenaed 14 individuals in seven states, including Andrew Hitt, former chair of the state Republican Party, and 8th Congressional District GOP chair Kelly Ruh, who joined eight other Wisconsin Republicans in the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign official-looking documents purporting that Trump had won the state. The meeting occurred on the same day that the Democratic slate of Wisconsin electors convened in the same building to deliver the state’s 10 electoral votes to President elect Joe Biden. [emphasis added]
1/18/2022 update starts here (Jeffrey Rosen edition)
Barr’s deputy, Jeffrey A. Rosen, stepped up to become the acting attorney general. Meanwhile, at the Department of Justice, the freshly appointed acting head of the civil division, Jeffrey Clark, circulated a draft letter written to officials in Georgia, dated December 28, 2020, claiming falsely that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the State of Georgia.” The letter attempted to make that charge seem real by calling for an investigation (a technique Republican candidates have used since 1994 to allege voter fraud when they lost elections). The letter claimed that two sets of electors had met “in Georgia and several other States… and that both sets of those ballots have been transmitted to Washington, D.C., to be opened by Vice President Pence.” The letter asked the Republican-dominated Georgia legislature to choose which set of electors was the right one after taking the alleged voter fraud into account. [emphasis added]
Clark circulated the draft letter to Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, asking them to agree to it. “I think we should get it out as soon as possible…. Personally, I see no valid downsides to sending out the letter,” he wrote. “I put it together quickly and would want to do a formal cite check before sending but I don't think we should let unnecessary moss grow on this.” Clark told them he wanted to send similar letters to “each relevant state.”
Several days later, Donoghue responded: “There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this.”
1/14/2022 update, "Robert Spindell, GOP member of Wisconsin Elections Commission", starts here.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/13/2022
Among those filing documents that tried to give Wisconsin's electoral votes to Trump was Bob Spindell, a longtime Republican activist who sits on the commission that is supposed to consider the complaint. Spindell has alleged the other commissioners are trying to force him off the case.
Original 1/13/2022 post, "LOCK HIM UP: Andrew Hitt, Wisconsin GOP fraudster", starts here.
Wisconsin Examiner, 1/6/2022
Weeks earlier, when the Electoral College met in each state, 10 Wisconsinites chose to commit fraud. While the electors chosen by the people met in public and cast Wisconsin’s votes in accordance with the election results, they skulked in the shadows and met in secrecy. These 10 Wisconsinites — including then-Chair of the state Republican Party Andrew Hitt and Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell — met somewhere in the Wisconsin Capitol and signed papers purporting to cast Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes for the losing candidate.
In doing so, they broke the law. [emphasis added]
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