I’ll bet Tom Clancy is shaking his head right now and thinking how anything he wrote was superficial bupkis compared to how the real pros in the Trump White House cobbled together intrigue for a living. Bennie Thompson shared an interesting tidbit on Sunday morning. First, he revealed that the January 6 Committee had spoken to Bill Barr. He said, “former attorney general” so I assume that is Barr, although I suppose it could be somebody else.

Then he revealed more details on the fake electors plot.

Again, get ready for goosebumps as you realize how the machinery of evil was in full force in Washington, D.C. trying to overthrow democracy.

Who is the “potential person” he’s talking about? Jeffrey Clarke? Bill Barr announced on December 14 that he was leaving office December 23. So was Clarke going to be named?

Or maybe, and this is insane, but stay with me: maybe Rudy Giuliani was going to achieve his life’s dream and become the attorney general, albeit it for a very short time? The reason I propose this admittedly off the walls idea is because it’s been established that Giuliani oversaw the fake elector plots in seven swing states. If he was nuts enough to do that, he was nuts enough to get Trump to appoint him attorney general.

Giuliani’s drinking is well known but I’m not sure it’s equally well known how much alcohol can warp somebody’s judgement and produce insane behavior. Giuliani’s role in Trump’s administration was one that got progressively more and more bizarre as time went on, starting with his advice to Trump on election night to just go ahead and announce that he won, going all the way through a conspiracy to knock out legitimate electors and install false ones, and have their signed fraudulent certifications be substituted for the real certifications. Joseph McCarthy was also an alcoholic and look at the madness he perpetrated on the government in his day. Both are a pair of evil, insane drunks.

I think it’s safe to conjecture that Bill Barr was asked to participate in the fraudulent election certification plot, or at least that he knew about it.

So, as Thompson says, if a new attorney general would tell the officials in the swing states that they needn’t produce their certification, then the fake certifications would have gone into place and voila, stolen election. The score, GOP 1, Democracy 0. Game over for the United States and the 240 year experiment in the rule of law in a democratic republic.

The January 6 Committee will reveal, hopefully, who was actually running the show in Trump’s last days. You saw yesterday, if you read the post here on the draft of the executive order, ordering the military to seize voting machines, that a draft of a Trump speech condemning the violence was supposed to have been delivered on January 7 by Trump but never was. Why? Who was giving the orders?

This is not the America we grew up in, folks. And I don’t care if you’re only 20, it’s not the America you grew up in either. If you’re five, then yes it is. And maybe this is the shape of things to come and nothing can change it. I certainly don’t want to think that way, but we have to be prepared for the worst.

 

 

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Trump was investigating election fraud you idiots that’s all you have and your wasting tax payers money on this bullshit but I think this is the only way he can get them t look at fraud results

  2. As a teenager during Watergate, I never worried about our democracy. The hearings were fascinating, but there was never a doubt that the criminals would pay. The stakes are so much higher now. I’m hopeful these hearings will have the same effect – Nixon was still popular until the tapes surfaced.
    The 1/6 committee is already having a much bigger impact than the Mueller report. They seem to be playing this just right. Dribble out just enough info to keep people interested. If this is what they are willing to share now, I’m thinking the hearings will be bonkers. As Don Jr would say “I love it, especially in late summer”.

    • Mueller was doing a legal investigation, where you don’t reveal results until the end – and Barr suppressed of its results as much as he could.

      • I understand that, but the dems kept saying let’s wait until the Mueller report comes out. They intended to do hearings based on them and we all saw how that worked out.

        • U don’t trust well heeled bureaucrats to fight a goddamn war. Look what the well connected Europeans did. They handed Hitler everything cuz they spent their life in comfort. Ask any veteran if boot camp or service is about comfort. This affluent culture is RIPE for another unelected dictator.

  3. FYI

    52 U.S. Code § 20511 – Criminal penalties

    A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office—

    (1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for—

    (A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;

    (B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or

    (C) exercising any right under this chapter; or

    (2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by—

    (A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or

    (B )the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

    • Now, there you go again, trying to deal with facts when we’ve all seen hardcore proof that Trump didn’t care one iota about the law or even “facts.”

  4. “Or maybe, and this is insane, but stay with me: maybe Rudy Giuliani was going to achieve his life’s dream and become the attorney general, albeit it for a very short time? The reason I propose this admittedly off the walls idea is because it’s been established that Giuliani oversaw the fake elector plots in seven swing states. If he was nuts enough to do that, he was nuts enough to get Trump to appoint him attorney general.”

    Ursula, I can’t see that ever happening. The AG MUST be confirmed by the Senate, especially if/when he’s not already “in the system” (so to speak). All that Trump could do, after Barr’s resignation, was to elevate Barr’s #2 as ACTING AG until a new AG could be nominated and confirmed. (You have to go all the way back to LBJ’s administration–with Ramsey Clark–to find an Acting AG who would be nominated and confirmed as full AG.)

    • If the gop gets back in power, you can forget ALL the rules. They will make up whatever rules they want. What ‘rules’ exactly did Trump follow?

  5. Could Trump have made a recess appointment after the previous Congress adjourned and before the new Congress was sworn in? How would that have fit into the timeline of events we are learning about?

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