Do you confess!?!? Confess!!!
Posted on 12/07/2023 6:45:35 AM PST by Red Badger
The 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as electors for President Donald Trump in 2020 even though he had lost the election settled a lawsuit against them Wednesday, acknowledging their actions were part of an effort to overturn the election results.
The lawsuit was filed last year by two of the state’s rightful electors, alleging the 10 false electors had engaged in a plot to defraud Wisconsin voters. The lawsuit had sought up to $200,000 from each elector, but no money is being exchanged as part of the settlement.
Wisconsin was one of several swing states in which groups of Republicans cast false electoral votes for Trump and sent them to Congress. The electors in two other states are facing criminal charges for their actions. The settlement marks the first time false electors in any state have revoked their filings and said they will not repeat their actions.
The 10 Republicans have also agreed not to serve as electors in any presidential election in which Trump is on the ballot. Trump is currently the leading candidate in the Republican primary race.
On the day that the duly elected presidential electors met in December 2020, the group of Republicans met in secret to cast Electoral College votes for Trump, claiming they were casting them in case Trump’s efforts to change the election results in court were successful. The false votes were cast hours after the state Supreme Court had voted 4-3 against the Trump campaign’s efforts to toss out hundreds of thousands of votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties in an attempt to change the results — effectively ending the campaign’s legal battles in Wisconsin.
The false electoral votes were sent to the National Archives, Congress, then-Secretary of State Douglas La Follette and a federal judge. The votes played a major role in sparking the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“On December 14, 2020, in compliance with requests received from the Trump campaign and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, we met at the Wisconsin State Capitol and executed a document titled ‘Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Wisconsin,’” the 10 Republican electors said in a statement as part of the settlement. “That document stated, in part, that we were ‘the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Wisconsin.’ The Elector Defendants took the foregoing action because they were told that it was necessary to preserve their electoral votes in the event a court challenge may later change the outcome of the election in Wisconsin. That document was then used as part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results.”
“We hereby reaffirm that Joseph R. Biden, Jr. won the 2020 presidential election and that we were not the duly elected presidential electors for the State of Wisconsin for the 2020 presidential election,” the statement continues. “We oppose any attempt to undermine the public’s faith in the ultimate results of the 2020 presidential election.”
While the 10 Republican electors agreed to settle the claims against them, the case continues against two attorneys who played a crucial role in the scheme. Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge who served as legal counsel for the Trump campaign, and Kenneth Cheseboro, who urged the Wisconsin Republicans to undertake the plan in a November 2020 memo and is facing criminal charges in Georgia for the false electoral votes cast in that state, are set to face a civil trial next year.
The group of false electors included Andrew Hitt, who was then the chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and Robert Spindell, who continues to serve as a member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission — the agency responsible for administering elections in the state.
Documents released as part of the settlement include text messages in which one of the Republicans refers to the false elector plan as a “possible steal.” Another text showed an elector saying that not going along with the plan would “piss off the Trump base.”
The emails and text messages released show the electors had varying degrees of belief in the likelihood of the plan succeeding, some of which had previously been released by the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack.
The released texts show that on Jan. 5, 2021, Wisconsin GOP staffer Alesha Guenther flew to Washington D.C. to deliver the false votes.
“5 minutes until I make the drop,” she wrote to Hitt. “I feel like a drug dealer.”
When Republicans challenge their methods and fraudulent results, they either have “no standing” or are prosecuted.
The criminal leftists, as usual, skate.
Do you confess!?!? Confess!!!
Whaddaya think?
Stolen election.
Where’s the barf alert?
But it was OK when Democrats cast false electoral votes for Mrs. Bill Clinton in 2016.
These “fake electors” went from looking at $200k fines and prison to absolutely no penalty and all they had to do was say “Biden won” and promise not to be electors any more. I would suggest that’s a pretty significant win and is a REALLY good indication that the prosecutors knew they had little to no chance of winning the case.
“I will always believe Trump won 2020.”
Knew it was rigged when Faux Snooze called Arizona before their polls closed. That’s when the tube went off along with any “faith” in the national election system. Totally corrupted and compromised. Furthermore, the vote charts fully proved that.
Until 2020 is resolved, there is but one box left to throw off the chains of tyranny and that will not be a pretty sight.
So..... given the predicament the commies and their sycophants have put US in, we now have to expose the cockroaches in all their “glory” and prosecute them to the fullest extent of military law.
Enjoy the show.
There are ELECTORAL SLATES for every candidate, including green, socialist, independent, etc. NONE of those are “fake.” In Hawaii in 1960 we had three slates of electors sent in. THREE. Were those “facke?”
"They had to say that to settle" spells the end of country. As far as I can see, our Constitution does not appear to mean jack sh!t.
I thought it was the law of the land, but people's Constitutional Rights are being violated in every way, and absolutely NOTHING HAPPENS to the violators.
Only Trump is trying to save this nation, but he is constantly hindered by a bunch of two faced back stabbing, likely compromised, Republipussys, who couldn't unite behind him to save themselves, much less this country.
They are either ignorant or they're paid off and just don't give a sh!t that communists have taken over. They don't care even about their own children or future generations. 😡
You’ll say anything with a gun on your head. Thank the GOPe traitors for all of this.
Doesn’t matter if they think biden won or not. There were lawsuits at the time. Had President Trump prevailed in those lawsuits, he would need the electors and their votes to win the election. What democrats wanted is for him to not have those electoral votes in place which would give biden the election no matter which way the courts ruled.
isn’t that what the RATS said to do to Trump???
Just like muslims, conversion by the sword, just say “There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet” and you’re good to go..................
“pretty significant win”
It was coerced speech—a win if you live in North Korea.
So NO money changes hands? Sounds like a win to me.
“pretty significant win”
I suppose those who “converted” after Torquemada threatened to put them in an Iron Maiden had a “win” as well.
;-)
They did everything legally. And then they were prosecuted for it.
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston”?
It’s quite 1984ish how these electors, like so many of the Jan 6 prisoners, were forced to publicly renounce their views.
That Torquemada reference is one of the best I have seen in the internet era!
Still, I would suggest that being subjected to an Iron Maiden (or listening to Iron Maiden) would constitute somewhat more of a penalty than the nothing these folks got. As far as the agreement being coerced, sure it was. That aspect was a given the moment the decision to prosecute was made. What’s important after that is the outcome and this outcome is as good as it could reasonably get. It would make no sense whatsoever this day in age to place yor fate in the hands of a jury that, for purely political reasons, just might cost you years of your life.
My husband and I just returned from a European trip. We visited the House of Terror Museum in Budapest.
100%
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