Reason # 80: The Conspiracy Unmasked
Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?
As January 7, 2020 dawned, the American public watched in horror as the crime of the century unraveled before their eyes. It had been an incredibly complex plot and but for the integrity of Vice-President Mike Pence, it might have succeeded. Joseph Biden would be inaugurated as POTUS on January 20th.
Now began the complicated task of investigating the attempted heist of the presidency and the indictment, conviction and punishment of the conspirators. The simplest task was to record the Republican votes during the early hours of January 7 in support of the conspiracy, when they voted to question the validity of electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
120 Republican Congressmen voted not to accept the electoral votes from Arizona. 6 others were too cowardly to vote either way. Six republican Senators supported the conspiracy.
Seven Republican Senators voted against accepting Electoral votes from Pennsylvania.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
• Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
• Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
• Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
• Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
• Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
• Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
The New York Times published the names of all 147 Republican legislators who voted to support the conspiracy.
Truthout lists the 138 Republican Congressmen and women who voted to reject the Pennsylvania electoral votes.]
The next phase was far more complicated; to arrest those who had attacked police, invaded the Capitol and threatened legislators. Three police officers died after the insurrection and hundreds were seriously injured. That was simplified; the simpletons had videotaped their own crimes. Thousands of arrest warrants went out and hundreds of Trump’s storm troopers were convicted of multiple crimes and jailed, many receiving long sentences. Eventually, more than 1,200 were charged and 460 jailed.
Those convicted included many members of the Proud Boys, QANON, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other right wing radical nationalist groups.
Next, it was time to go after the brains of the outfit. I use the term “brains” with deep sarcasm. Who were the midlevel conspirators CC? The just-released Jack Smith indictment lists six co-conspirators and 77 potential witnesses P, in the attempted heist but does not name them.
U.S.A. Today lists Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Cheseboro as CC1-5..
Other sources indicate that Boris Epshteyn was CC6.
The New York Times identifies numerous conspirators as potential witnesses, including P1 Steven Bannon, P4 Jason Miller, P9 Eric Herschman, P21 Mark Meadows, P45 Dan Scavino and P52 William Barr.
What took so long? Why are we only now, finally, prosecuting the ringleaders of the crime of the century, committed almost four years ago? A large number of Trump’s lawyers have worked to continuously block or delay the indictments in a number of criminal and civil proceedings, aided and abetted by six Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican Presidents.
Their most outrageous decision was that the President of the U.S. is immune from prosecution for any act he takes acting in his capacity as President. They effectively validated Donald Trump’s claim that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. This decision brought the Department of Justice indictment to a halt. Jack Smith has had to recraft the indictment removing actions taken by Trump as President, for example his attempt to appoint one of the co-conspirators, Jeffery Clark, as Head of the Justice Department. In the new indictment released this week, Smith has only charged Trump with criminal acts committed as a private citizen acting as a candidate for reelection to the presidency.
There is no guarantee that the partisan court – Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas played a minor but active role in the conspiracy – will allow prosecution of Donald Trump based upon the new indictment.
In any event, if Donald Trump is reelected on November 5, 2024, he will be able to pardon all of the conspirators and possibly himself. Accordingly, the bottom line is that if you vote for Donald Trump, you are actively aiding and abetting the crime of the century, a coup d etat to overthrow the democratic election of the President of the United States.
Have a heart; use your mind, search your conscience, and vote for Democratic candidates – across the ballot – on November. 5th.
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Fred Grannis
October 7, 2024