Sweeney wrote:
ThisIsIt wrote:
I wonder what the breakdown is between the delusional ones who really believe the election was stolen which apparently then justifies them breaking the law to put matters right, and the ones where it's just a pure power grab and they know damn well Trump lost and are willing to break the law to put him in power.
Nobody really believes that the election was stolen. Well maybe some backwoods idiot, Maga fan does, but nobody who has anything to do with the uprising thinks it was stolen. They just think it was a good plan to get their boy back in.
Tell you what, you take any of those people who swear on a stack of bibles that the election was stolen, put them in the electric chair, and hook them up to a lie detector, and then ask them who was the legitimate winner of the election. They'll tell you every time that Trump was a loser!
Certainly all the people involved in the fake electors knew that Trump lost the election.
Before the election, when Trump was talking about how it was going to be rigged if he lost, we discussed on this site how they could try to use a different slate of electors to try to steal the election. There is some historical precedent in 1824 and 1876, so they likely thought that what they were doing would not be considered a crime, but rather, at worst it would fail and everyone would move on.
ETA: but for their scheme to work, they had to convince enough people that the election results were doubtful, and they had to get the result pushed to the state legislatures. It was a scheme that might have worked.
