TIL the trump campaign directed collaborators to forge and mail in false 2020 electoral documents to try to trick the national archives into certifying trump as the victor in states he lost to Biden. - eviltoast
Fake Documents Declaring Trump and Pence the 2020 Winners Sent to but Rejected by National Archives: Report
people.com
According to Politico, the false certificates of ascertainment were sent from Arizona and Michigan groups but they were instead turned over to the Jan. 6 congressional committee

I came across a post in a Michigan community that mentioned this, and i asked if it really happened because it seems so crazy that Republican collaborators would directly mail in fake documents saying Trump won states he lost and I hadn’t even really heard about it.

But this is exactly what happened, as I found out today after looking for more corroborating sources:

https://people.com/politics/forged-documents-declaring-trump-pence-winners-sent-to-national-archives/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

Trump republicans in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, and New Mexico forged false elector certificates and actually mailed in those forged electoral certificates to the national archives, that were examined and found to be forgeries, with trump, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman as the ring leaders calling hundreds of Republicans to ask them to directly commit election fraud and forgery.

Some of them said yes. A bunch of them said yes, actually.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    10 months ago

    Oh yeah no it was an actual attempted coup. He should probably be executed for it. Instead he’s running again

    • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
      531·
      10 months ago

      He should be facing far more serious legal consequences, suffice to say. Rather than this piecemeal, “ooo, maybe we can get him on a technicality” bullshit. If a democracy is incapable of even protecting itself from such a hamfisted coup, how could it hope to protect itself from one orchestrated by a person who isn’t pants on head stupid.

      • IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.netEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I just wanted to ask, did you happen to get the phrase ‘pants on head stupid’ from zero punctuation back in the day? It’s the only place I’ve ever heard that term before and I still use it all the time

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          It’s more of a Blackadder thing for me. Him putting underpants on his head and putting pencils up his nostrils to pretend that he’s gone mad.

      • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        The problem is that Attorney General Garland, for reasons known only to himself, wanted to wait until after the Jan 6th committee issued its report before turning the full power of the DOJ on prosecuting Trump.

        I think he did it for political cover; to avoid the appearance of a political motive; but I think it’s obvious now that it was a mistake both because Trump was always going to claim political persecution regardless, and because they are now in real danger of running out of time.