Donald Trump s son talked of taking over presidential election even before it was called and before any evidence could have been found that the vote was rigged.
father has for maintaining that everything he did after the election up to and including the march on the capitol was legitimate was this notion that he had not legitimately lost the election. so to the extent that this becomes a powerful piece of evidence that they were aware that they had lost, that they were aware it wasn t fraud and they were going to have to come up with these alternate schemes, including fake slates of electors to get across the finish line, this really could be very powerful. yeah. i mean, we have the we have the text messages that he sent. it is very simple, we have multiple paths, we control them all, then we have operational control, total leverage, moral high ground, potus must start second term now. then another one, we have the vote, we control and win or it gets kicked to congress january 6th 2021. this is on november 5th of 2020. let s move on from don jr. and talk about the two criminal
and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying the results. as well as having a handful of republican state houses put forward slates of fake trump electors. if all of that failed, republican lawmakers in congress could simply vote to reinstalled trump as president on january 6th. quote, republicans control 28 states, democrats 22 states, once again trump wins. we either have a vote we control, and we win, or it gets kicked to congress january six 2021. we have operational control, total average, moral high ground, potus must start second term now. wow. they just wrote it all down, didn t they? so the ex presidents son was stirring up plans to overturn the election, building the case for the insurrection before all of the votes were even counted. before it was called. and the following days and weeks, trump and his allies continued exactly that plan, inciting what happened on january 6th.
this new cnn report, as you mentioned that says the former president s eldest son, donald trump jr., texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows two days after the election and two days before president biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election talking about strategies for how to overturn the results of the election, and nbc news has an independently verified these texts, but cnn is saying they re a part of a trove of evidence given to the january 6th committee. the strategists mentioned in them are things we saw play out in the months after the election, like several lawsuits in swing states, calls for recounts in swing states, the fake electors plot we talked about. one text says, quote, it s very simple. we have multiple paths. we control them all. we have operational control, total leverage, moral high