{"id":43478,"date":"2022-05-27T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=43478"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:33:40","slug":"the-fake-electors-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/the-fake-electors-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"the fake electors plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The fake electors plot was spearheaded by pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, who laid out a plan whereby then-Vice President Mike Pence would declare all the Biden-won states with &#8220;alternate&#8221; Trump electors to be disputed, not count their votes during the gaveling of the electoral college, and declare Trump the winner. Legal experts broadly considered this scheme to be\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/09\/23\/eastman-memo-jan-6-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">illegal<\/a>, as did Pence himself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-raw-story-celebrating-18-years-of-independent-journalism wp-block-embed-raw-story-celebrating-18-years-of-independent-journalism\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-georgia-2657399052\/\">Feds asking Georgia Republicans about contacts with Trump in investigation of fake electors: report<\/a><\/h4><p>On Thursday, CNN reported that Justice Department investigators have interviewed Republicans in Georgia about whether they had any contacts with former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign, as part of the growing probe into whether a crime was committed in the plot to submit slates of fake &#8220;electors&#8221; d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Will we EVER see this administration in jail???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1-1024x36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1-1024x36.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1-300x11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1-768x27.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fake electors plot was spearheaded by pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, who laid out a plan whereby then-Vice President Mike Pence would declare all the Biden-won states with &#8220;alternate&#8221; Trump electors to be disputed, not count their votes during the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/the-fake-electors-plot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1888,3],"tags":[125,73,89,1889,634,1890,699],"class_list":["post-43478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-politix","tag-125","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-john-eazstman","tag-mike-pence","tag-patrick-garland","tag-sedition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}