Since supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 727 individuals have been charged, and many of them outed themselves on social media as they bragged on Facebook about rioting on that deadly day. Amazingly, though, Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro told on himself in a book, dubbing his plan with Steve Bannon to overturn Joe Biden’s election win the “Green Bay Sweep,” The Daily Beast reports. Navarro ratted on himself, and I see subpoenas in his future.
In Navarro’s recently published memoir, Navarro explains in detail how he stayed in close contact with Trump ally Steve Bannon as they put the Green Bay Sweep in motion with help from quite a few Republican members of Congress.
Then, Navarro further ratted on himself and his colleagues, including Rep. Paul Gosar and Sen. Ted Cruz to The Daily Beast.
“We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. It started out perfectly. At 1:00 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them,” Navarro told the outlet last week. “It was a perfect plan. And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.”
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“That commitment appeared as Congress was certifying the 2020 Electoral College votes reflecting that Joe Biden beat Trump,” the outlet reports. “Sen. Cruz signed off on Gosar’s official objection to counting Arizona’s electoral ballots, an effort that was supported by dozens of other Trump loyalists.”
“This last-minute maneuvering never had any chance of actually decertifying the election results on its own, a point that Navarro quickly acknowledges,” the report continues. “But their hope was to run the clock as long as possible to increase public pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to send the electoral votes back to six contested states, where Republican-led legislatures could try to overturn the results. And in their mind, ramping up pressure on Pence would require media coverage. While most respected news organizations refused to regurgitate unproven conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud, this plan hoped to force journalists to cover the allegations by creating a historic delay to the certification process.”
In Navarro’s book, he also notes that Bannon was the first person that he communicated with when he woke up on the morning of January 6, writing, “I check my messages and am pleased to see Steve Bannon has us fully ready to implement our Green Bay Sweep on Capitol Hill. Call the play. Run the play.”
The plan, of course, was to continue regurgitating the big lie of widespread voter fraud that doesn’t exist to stall out the certification of electoral votes by pressuring then-vice president Mike Pence to overturn the election results.
When asked if Trump himself was involved in the strategy, Navarro said, “I never spoke directly to him about it. But he was certainly on board with the strategy. Just listen to his speech that day. He’d been briefed on the law, and how Mike [Pence] had the authority to it.”
Ohhhh.
You can read the full report here.
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