Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.
So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to the nation’s capital, relying on a haphazard chain of couriers, as well as help from two Republicans in Congress, to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification.
The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.
The new details provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the chaotic last-minute effort to keep Donald Trump in office. The fake electors scheme features prominently in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment against the former president, and some of the officials who were involved have spoken to Smith’s investigators.
It’s oddly pleasing that the slowdown in mail caused him pain/inconvenience.
caused by none other than his own appointee DeJoy, whose entire goal in the USPS is to dismantle it and privatize it… talk about reaping what you sow lol
My USPS is normally quite good, and it was a drastic difference during that time. I’m so glad my state decided to also provide official drop boxes and a mechanism to track where my ballot is at any given time.
My USPS straight up loses (steals?) like 25% of my packages. It was never great but it hit new lows in the Trump years.
Yeah, my state too. I’m usually good about mailing my ballot two weeks before but I’ve been taking it to the county courthouse drop box instead.
Yet he’s still holding the same position for some reason… its baffling he hasnt been replaced
The person who could replace him is a Democrat. Now watch the excuses flow.
Actually, Biden can’t directly appoint a new Postmaster General. He CAN, however, replace some of the board members that have that ability, though, which he has absolutely no valid reason not to do.
Biden can only appoint board members when the term expires of an existing board member… He has appointed a few and they currently hold a majority but haven’t yet acted.
So in other words, he can do what is needed to fire DeJoy, but has chosen not to. The single extra step involved is not a reason not to, and satisfies no one who isn’t already seeking excuses.
Biden is in a position to replace him. He won’t.
Reports are the DeJoy and Biden are working really well together. Kind of fucked up, but better than before.
Seems dangerous AF to keep that duplicitous fucker around heading into the next election
DeJoy has his own shipping company as a competitor to the USPS.
Exactly.
Preaching to the choir, my man. I wasn’t disagreeing so much as correcting a detail of your otherwise accurate take 🙂