(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Previous Guy whining as the indictment hammer falls, making him 'pretty well' willfully blind [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-01 Four counts related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Neal Katyal said what is unfolding in real time via JACK SMITH http://et.al., is as big as Dred Scott and Brown v. Board. CO-CONSPIRATORS: 1Rudy Giuliani 2John Eastman 3Sidney Powell 4Jeffrey Clark 5Kenneth Chesebro 6A political consultant The co-conspirators are not named in the indictment, but five of them can be identified using the detailed descriptions provided by prosecutors. They have not been indicted, and their lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Striking passage from the indictment here: Trump reinserted language attacking Pence into his speech to the 1/6 mob right after Pence rebuffed his pressure to halt the electoral count. Suggests Trump expressly understood the mob as his weapon of pressure against Pence. pic.twitter.com/2VlKVRzSQW ​ So Trump told Pence, "You're too honest," and the Secret Service was told that the Vice President's life was now in danger. ​ “A sweeping campaign of deceit and abuses that threatened the foundations of American democracy.” The indictment from the Department of Justice describes six co-conspirators who assisted Trump, including four attorneys, a DOJ official and a political consultant. It alleges that together with Trump, they "used knowingly false claims of election fraud to get state legislators and election officials to subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes." They also sought to organize "fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted states" and use the Justice Department to conduct "sham election crime investigations and to send a letter to the targeted states that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that may have impacted the election outcome." The indictment alleges that Trump and his co-conspirators attempted to convince Vice President Mike Pence to "use his ceremonial role at the January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently alter the election results." After Pence refused and a pro-Trump protest turned violent, Trump "exploited the disruption by redoubling efforts to levy false claims of election fraud" and sought to convince members of Congress to delay certification. "The attack on our nation's capital on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies — lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government: the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election," special counsel Jack Smith, who has been leading the investigation, said in an on-camera statement Tuesday. www.pbs.org/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/1/2184674/-Previous-Guy-whining-as-the-indictment-hammer-falls-making-him-pretty-well-willfully-blind Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/