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"I'm a gullible idiot" is a fun defense.
when the Distinguished Gentleman from Wisconsin can’t wrap his head around the “Green Bay Sweep”, he should just resign his position in disgrace.
also, ya know, because of the treason. and the craven lying about the treason.
The whole "there are a lot of very intelligent people who support trump" line sure doesn't stand up to scrutiny
He’s options were either be a fraud or incompetent. He’s made his choice.
Not a fraud, a traitor
It occurs to me that multiple definitions of "trick" could reasonably apply here.
as long as you don’t pay them off with campaign money...
Sure, Jan.
Former Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt was nominated to be an elector if former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020, but after Trump lost, Hitt and nine other Republican electors met at the state capitol and signed documents falsely claiming Trump won.
Hitt said lawyers told him the documents they were signing were meaningless unless Trump's legal team won its lawsuit seeking to dismiss over 200,000 votes in two Democratic counties.
Hitt said he was advised that if a court ruled in Trump's favor and he and the other Republicans did not meet and sign the documents on Dec. 14, 2020 — when the Democratic electors were required to meet to cast their votes for President Biden — he would be responsible for Trump forfeiting Wisconsin.
] "It was not a safe time," he said. "If my lawyer is right, and the whole reason Trump loses Wisconsin is because of me, I would be scared to death."
The Republican Party is full of cowards, each claiming to be only 'doing their jobs' and then claiming afterward that they knew something was wrong.
"Oftentimes phone calls would start by 6 in the morning, and wouldn't end until 10:30 at night," he said.
Yeah, I'd vote against anyone calling me at 6 in the morning.
Cue the womp womp wooooooomp.
"Honestly, your honor, I got duped into commiting murder. Sure, the pay was great and I was completely on board, but then I got caught and I knew I had to say something."
Of course, he had right wing backing, so the "Oops, my bad" defense is gonna work.
Some say "tricked" others say "activity plotted treason" but I guess we will never know...
I guess we have no way to investigate this and find out. If only we had some department in the government that was made to investigate into law stuff, you know, for justice.
Maybe we could also have a bureau, but on the federal level, that only helped investigate things for the law. Some kind of federal bureau that investigates. That would be nice. Then maybe some department that followed through with their investigations with Justice, and the two could work together.
But you know, that is all made up wishing on the internet. In the end we will never know if they were tricked like a toddler on Halloween, or plotted treason in meetings that lasted entire days that we have logs for and that their political party supported. We will never know...
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