Donald Trump at the Road to Majority conference at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center Friday, June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. | Photo by John Partipilo for the Tennessee Lookout
It is just astounding that Wisconsin Republicans continue to push their “election integrity” nonsense, even as the world watches the dramatic Jan. 6 hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives, presenting compelling evidence that then-President Donald Trump riled up a violent mob with false claims of “election fraud” and attempted to steal the 2020 presidential election.
This week’s hearings will focus specifically on Wisconsin’s role in the conspiracy to steal the election. Republican officials in our state, along with their co-conspirators in six other states, sent fake electoral ballots for Trump to Washington, knowingly violating the Electoral Vote Count Act, in order to lay the groundwork for Trump’s false claim that the results were “disputed” and the legitimate Electoral College vote should be overturned.
As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), co-chair of the bipartisan U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, explained last week, Trump’s lawyer, Eastman’s scheme was to have Pence pretend the fake electors were real and declare Trump the winner.
Pence lawyer Greg Jacob thoroughly researched that idea, presenting his findings in a memo to the vice president and, he testified to the House committee, he and Pence came to the conclusion that there was no way the...
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