6 Aug 2023 12:19 pm
So what law was broken?Bruce » 06 Aug 2023, 11:55 am » wrote: ↑ In 1974 the Republican Party was saved, from Richard Nixon. The only reason it was saved, was that Nixon was told by Senator Barry Goldwater every Republican in the Senate would vote for his removal and then, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs told Nixon the military would not support him. Nixon did not resign out of a guilty conscience. He saw the writing on the wall, stepped down, was pardoned, and died an old man in his bed.
Trump is a tougher nut to crack.
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New Mexico, which was not among the key states in the election, was nonetheless tossed into the mix the night before the Dec. 14 gather of electors. Cheseboro, at the request of a Trump campaign staffer, drafted and sent fake certificates to the state for Trump.
The decision came despite there being no pending litigation on Trump's behalf in New Mexico and the fact that he lost the state by nearly 100,000 votes.
The state's Republican Party sent out a press release stating they requested their five electors to vote for Donald Trump given pending litigation concerning the election results.
Who were the Republican electors? They were Jewll Powdrell, Deborah Maestas, Lupe Garcia, Rosie Tripp, and Anissa Ford-Tinnin.
At the time, a news release from the New Mexico Republican Party stated, “As the legal proceedings arising from the Nov. 3 presidential election continue to work their way through our nation’s judicial system, we requested that the New Mexico Republicans who pledged to vote for President Trump and Vice President Pence in the Electoral College to convene on Dec. 14, cast their ballots and send them to Congress, where the Electoral votes are to be opened and counted beginning on Jan. 6.”
But when the electors got to Santa Fe they were turned away by the Secretary of State. They did, however, sign a certificate of votes for Trump and Mike Pence and sent it to Washington.
The Trump campaign filed an election challenge suit in New Mexico, six minutes before the deadline for the electors' votes, "as a pretext so that there was pending litigation there at the time the fraudulent electors voted," prosecutors allege.
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There is no way, under the sun, earth, moon and stars any Republican in their wildest fantasies about the constitution can defend adding New Mexico where Trump lost by 11 points.
New Mexico is the new Watergate Tapes.