The January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from seven states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing seven sets of phony electors.
What are electors? Those are the people who actually vote for president of the United States. Look high and low in the Constitution and you will not find the right to vote. Rather, the president is picked by the electors and the electoral college. But there’s also an alternative way of picking presidents, which is using the 12th Amendment. Let me explain…
On January 6th, Vice-President Mike Pence received seven slates of electors, but not the electors who were voted by the people of the states. These fake slates of electors were from Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was not the electors for Joe Biden, who had won those states, rather it was a bunch of GOP operatives, who fraudulently claimed their states had voted for Trump. These alternative electors had their own little private electoral college meetings and they elected Donald Trump for their states, which would make him president of the United States.
You might think, this is nuts, you can’t just get a bunch of people together in a room and say, I think we’ll have Trump again. It’s not a joke, because under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution it’s what happens when there are not enough electors to become president. You have to win 270 electoral college votes. So what these characters have done is they provided alternative lists of electors. If those electors were accepted over the ones that were submitted by the states themselves, Trump would have been reelected.
Now, Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the January 6th Committee wants to know who was behind this scheme, because it’s a fraud upon the government — and a crime. Chairman Thompson, I’m going to give you a hint: Donald Trump. This went straight to the Oval Office.
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