Posted on 09/01/2023 8:26:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis possesses evidence that exonerates several Republicans she’s targeting in her legal crusade against former President Donald Trump and other Republicans for their lawful contesting of Georgia’s flawed 2020 election.
In her Aug. 14 indictment, Willis alleged the existence of Republican electors for Trump constituted an unlawful “conspiracy” to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 election results. Among those charged for partaking in this so-called “conspiracy” are David Shafer, one of Georgia’s 2020 Republican electors, and Ray Smith, who served as one of Trump’s lawyers at the time of the contest.
Specifically, Willis claimed Shafer and the other alternate electors “unlawfully falsely held themselves out” as Georgia’s “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors. She further insisted these electors — with Smith’s assistance — intentionally attempted to “mislead” figures such as then-Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger “into believing that they actually were such officers.”
However, among the documents Willis obtained during her years-long investigation of Republicans was a meeting transcript refuting her allegations.
A transcript of the Georgia Republican electors’ Dec. 14, 2020, meeting, obtained by The Federalist, explicitly shows the intent behind casting alternate electors was not to impersonate public officers, as Willis alleged, but to lawfully preserve Trump’s legal challenge to the state’s election results. At the meeting’s outset, Shafer specifically noted how he and his fellow Republicans were acting as “Republican nominees for Presidential Elector,” not as “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors.
“[President Trump] has filed a contest to the certified returns. That contest — is pending [and has] not been decided or even heard by any judge with the authority to hear it,” Shafer said. “And so in order to preserve his rights, it’s important that the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector meet here today and...”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
“Electors cast their ballots in state capitals on December 6, 1876. Generally, the process went smoothly but in four capitals—Salem, Oregon; Columbia, South Carolina; Tallahassee, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana—two sets of conflicting electors met and voted so that the US Congress received two sets of conflicting electoral votes.”
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/disputed-election-1876
Actually, I think Hawaii sent THREE sets of electors in 1960. A second set of Democrat electors was certified just in case there were legal problems with the first one.
Because we have allowed such. We have no balls, patriotism or love of freedom, either.
We don't have an opposition party. The GOP is in on it.
I would have never guessed this hack DD lied.
Did not know that! Thanks
I AM an alternate elector from the 2020 cycle and am astounded that anyone trying to enforce election law is not aware of the Hawaii case from 1960.
Big Fanni and Letitia seem to be exchanging notes on how to make a case. Both of them are out in left field and cannot find the ball. What a waste of money and time.
Newsflash: Electors don’t leave their state to vote ! Only the paperwork travels to DC.
In 1960 it was done by roll call vote in DC
"Prosperous" characters who yield to the temptation of gluttony could develop a fat Fani.
Through all of this no one in Georgia’s hierachy has addressed the 2000 mules and the on camera election board voter fraud. That is a taboo subject for Raffensperger, Kemp, and the rest of the GOPe clowns that cowtow to Staci Abrams.
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