The media cycle this week saw a bombshell scoop dropped by New York Times correspondent, CNN analyst, and so-called “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman and her team when they released a never before seen memo that outlined in detail the plot and strategy to overthrow Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win and keep then-President Donald J. Trump in power for another four years.
For weeks now, basically, the entire media cycle in the US has been saturated with the news of the newest round of indictments to come down against scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump, by Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith in his case against the ex-president for his attempts to all but enact a government coup and overturn the 2020 presidential election — including his actions and rhetoric that incited a mob of his most devout and violent supporters to physically storm and attack the US Capitol building on January 6th, 2021, as Congress was inside certifying Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
Former President Donald J. Trump has now been indicted on a variety of federal felony charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
However, while the world has been reeling over the broad news of the indictment as a whole, Haberman and her team zeroed in on a particular memo included in the official indictment, penned by Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, that outlined in great detail the proposed strategy to keep Trump in the White House and in power over the United States, despite his clear election loss.
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Earlier this week, the reporting team of Haberman, Charlie Savage, and Luke Broadwater published the exclusively obtained, damning memo:
A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a criminal conspiracy.
The existence of the Dec. 6, 2020, memo came to light in last week’s indictment of Mr. Trump, though its details remained unclear. But a copy obtained by The New York Times shows for the first time that the lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, acknowledged from the start that he was proposing ‘a bold, controversial strategy’ that the Supreme Court ‘likely’ would reject in the end.
But even if the plan did not ultimately pass legal muster at the highest level, Mr. Chesebro argued that it would achieve two goals. It would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and ‘buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column.'”
In this memo, Trump attorney Kenneth Cheseboro wrote:
Even if, in the end, the Supreme Court would likely end up ruling that the power to count the votes (in the sense of resolving controversies concerning them) does not lie with the President of the Senate , but instead lies with Congress (either voting jointly, or in separate Houses) , letting matters play out this way would guarantee that public attention would be riveted on the evidence of electoral abuses by the Democrats, and would also buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column .
I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy , and that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on January 6.But as long as itis one possible option, to preserve it as a possibility itis important that the Trump-Pence electors cast their electoral votes on December 14.”
Haberman and her reporting team did not reveal the identity of the source who provided the damning memo.
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