Trump and his team pressure state officials to falsify voter lists

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The White House planned to replace Biden’s deputies with their own deputies to object to the official results and refuse to formalize the replacement in the US presidency

Donald Trump personally and also through his allies pressured dozens of state officials in the seven North American states where he lost in the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Even from the White House itself, then led by the controversial New York tycoon, an illegal conspiracy of false delegates was promoted to replace that of his Democratic opponent to force the annulment of the election results.

The United States Congress special committee investigating everything that happened surrounding the brutal attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 by supporters of the former Republican president showed in its session Tuesday plenty of evidence of the extensive dirty campaign that was being waged. in conjunction with the White House, to coerce, intimidate and compel countless local and state officials to participate in his corrupt plot.

Officials at all levels of US governments received up to 4,000 text messages, on their cell phones and even those of their family members, asking them to change the poll results unfavorable to Trump. Other messages were intimidating and contained violent threats, including death. In turn, on the streets, the intimidation campaign was intensified by aggressive protests in the workplaces and also in the private homes of those officials, including election workers, who were in the crosshairs of the conspirators of this apparent attempt.

At the same time, Trump and his top advisers, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, launched the so-called “false commissioners” scheme to replace the legitimate agents pulled from the polls who gave Joe Biden the win. According to what they planned, these “alternative” voter rolls would be presented as “disputed certifications” in the states in question in light of the certification of election results Congress would have to make on Jan. 6. These false certifications could have served as an excuse for then-Vice President, Mike Pence, to declare such official results reprehensible and, consequently, refuse to formalize Biden’s victory, as his boss had intended and urged him several times.

At the same time, numerous officials involved in the election process — whose testimonies were presented on video during the hearing — were harshly forced to accept the illegitimate lists of Republican delegates willing to name Trump as president. To add to the confusion, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, former politician Rudolph Giuliani and his group, presented legal sources on alleged voter fraud with unthinkable theories to dispute the results in the still-debated states.

In one of the videos released by the committee, testimony is heard from Georgia pollster Shaye Moss, who was falsely accused by Giuliani of secretly “coffering” votes favorable to Biden, a conspiracy alleged by election officials themselves. debunked. Moss and his mother, also a civil servant, received racial threats and intense intimidation about their lives and that of their families, with traumatic consequences that continue two years later.

Despite being rejected from every state’s electoral college certifications on December 14, 2020, Trump supporters pushed ahead with the plot. To do this, they signed false election certificates and declared themselves “duly elected and authorized”. The commission showed several pieces of evidence on Tuesday of the fabricated “false election documents,” corresponding to the states Trump lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin—to be sent to Washington.

The plan was to send the documents to Vice President Pence and also to the National Archives. Congressional investigators showed several text messages revealing Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson’s attempt to get fake election documents to number two in the White House. An assistant to Pence eventually made sure that the documents did not reach him. The rest is history. The vice president, whose role in the election certification is purely ceremonial, refused to bow to the corrupt plot of Trump and his allies.

The Commission also investigated Trump’s campaign of pressure on top officials in the states he had lost, such as Arizona and Georgia. Two exceptional witnesses have personally testified before Congress: Georgian Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling, both under intense pressure from Trump personally.

Both are Republicans and spoke of the strict scrutiny of the legitimacy of the election results. They also did it from Trump’s already famous coercion on January 2, 2021, in front of witnesses, urging Raffesnsberger to find 11,780 exact votes, the very ones needed to overcome Biden’s margin of victory. But when he refused, the Georgia Secretary of State received serious threats, including degrading sexual remarks against his wife. In addition, the home of his son’s widow, with young children, was broken into.

In the weeks that followed, Sterling denounced Trump’s campaign of lies about electoral theft in Georgia in a news conference that went viral, calling on him to back down to end the violence he had unleashed. For their part, members of Trump’s legal team, who do not deny the existence and preparation of the aforementioned illegal false lists, labeled the version of the plot presented by the Commission as “distorted”.

According to his version, these alternate lists were compiled and signed in case the States revised their official election certificate and chose a favorable one for Trump, after which they would be immediately sent to Congress. An explanation that contradicts evidence obtained by the Commission that John Eastman, architect of the bogus certification scheme, admitted on Dec. 19, 2020, that Trump’s lists were “dead on arrival” if not certified. And despite this, Eastman continued to pressure Pence to reject Biden’s lists.

The historic hearings of this special congressional committee are having an impact on American public opinion. And it seems most citizens want Donald Trump impeached for instigating those tragic riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.

That’s according to a study published this week jointly by ABC News and the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’. According to their results, 6 in 10 American citizens, 58%, want Trump to be prosecuted. They are six points more than those who had the same opinion at the end of April.

Yet Republican voters remain unmoved by Trump. And it’s that according to that same survey, only 19% of them would be in favor of impeaching the former president, compared to 91% of Democrats who would.

In any case, the plebiscite by the two media mentioned has implications for the deep ideological rift that currently divides the country.

Source: La Verdad

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