This is just breaking from CNN:
Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.
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In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.–“It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, adding later in the same missive: “We have multiple paths We control them all.”–In a statement to CNN, Trump Jr.’s lawyer Alan S. Futerfas said, “After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”
That is some fancy legal footwork. It’s still incriminating to say that it was written by somebody else and forwarded on, but not nearly so incriminating as saying that Junior wrote it himself.
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The text from Trump Jr. is revealing on a number of levels. It shows how those closest to the former President were already exchanging ideas for how to overturn the election months before the January 6 insurrection — and before all the votes were even counted. It would be another two days before major news outlets declared Joe Biden the winner on November 7.–The text also adds to a growing body of evidence of how Trump’s inner circle was actively engaged in discussing how to challenge the election results.–On March 28, Judge David Carter, a federal judge in California, said that Trump, along with conservative lawyer John Eastman, launched an “unprecedented” campaign to overturn a democratic election, calling it “a coup in search of a legal theory.”
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The multiple paths that Junior texted about referred to the fake Republican electors, undoubtedly.
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What hubris. What a scheme. And Trump wants to run again and put us all through more.
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Geez junior. After all the years your family has been mobbed up, you break the two rules: keep ur mouth shut & never rat on ur friends.
I’ve said it before and will say it again.
Abolish the Electoral College.
You can’t just “abolish the Electoral College” like you seem to think. It’s a CONSTITUTIONALLY-mandated institution and ANY changes must be made via Constitutional Amendment. That requires a 2/3 majority of House and Senate members, present and voting followed by a 3/4 majority vote of the States.
The 12th Amendment (ratified more than 200 years ago) set the current framework for the Electoral College and there’s been exactly ONE change to it in all that time: The 23rd Amendment which gave DC (permanent) residents a say in electing the President, and that was ratified just 61 years ago (it also increased the EC to its current 538 votes).
To think that this current Congress would be able to change the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College (especially as that was the only way that Trump actually got into the White House with the 2016 election), you’d have to be as insane as Marjorie Taylor-Greene. Also, I cannot imagine the 13 states with just 3 or 4 electoral votes would be all that willing to cede that little bit of electoral power (and if those 13 refused to ratify the Amendment, it would die since you need 38 states for ratification).
That explains why Meadows is trying so hard to not testify.