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Two Arizona Republicans recruited by allies of former President Donald J. Trump to join an effort to keep him in office after he lost the 2020 election grew so concerned about the plan that they told lawyers working on it that they feared their actions could be seen as treason, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, and Kelly Townsend, a state senator, were both said to have expressed concerns to Mr. Trump’s lawyers in December 2020 about participating in a plan to sign on to a slate of electors claiming that Mr. Trump had won Arizona, even though Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the state.
The scheme was part of a broader bid — one of the longest running and most complicated that Mr. Trump undertook as he sought to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election — to falsely manufacture a victory for him by creating fake slates of electors in battleground states who would claim that he had been the true winner.
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Some of the lawyers who undertook the effort doubted its legality, and the emails, which have not been previously reported, were the latest indication that other key players also knew they were on shaky legal ground, and took pains to fabricate a rationale that could justify their actions.

Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer working for Mr. Trump’s campaign, wrote in a Dec. 11, 2020, email to other members of the legal team that Ms. Ward and Ms. Townsend had raised concerns about casting votes as part of an alternate slate of electors because there was no pending legal challenge that could flip the results of Arizona’s election.
“Ward and Townsend are concerned it could appear treasonous for the AZ electors to vote on Monday if there is no pending court proceeding that might, eventually, lead to the electors being ratified as the legitimate ones,” Mr. Chesebro wrote to the group, which included Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer.
Mr. Chesebro wrote the word “treasonous” in bold.

Ms. Ward, who pushed for the electors plan to be kept secret, ultimately joined the effort and signed a document that purported to be a “certificate of the votes of the 2020 electors from Arizona” and claimed that Mr. Trump had won the state’s 11 Electoral College votes.

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One person working on the plan, the Arizona-based lawyer Jack Wilenchik, conceded in emails that the Electoral College votes the campaign was working to organize “aren’t legal under federal law” and repeatedly referred to them as “fake,” The Times has reported.

In a later email, Mr. Wilenchik said that the rush to file the papers with the Supreme Court was “to give legal ‘cover’ for the electors in AZ to ‘vote’” on Dec. 14, 2020, the day the Electoral College was slated to gather and cast votes.

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Ms. Townsend ultimately did not sign the documents claiming that Mr. Trump had won the state’s election.
Both Ms. Ward and Ms. Townsend have since received subpoenas from the Justice Department asking questions about the fake electors plan and demanding documents detailing communications with Mr. Trump’s legal team.
Ms. Ward, Ms. Townsend, Mr. Wilenchik and Mr. Chesebro did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The push to organize slates of false electors involved hands-on work by Mr. Giuliani, who the emails indicate spoke with Ms. Ward and Ms. Townsend as the Trump campaign was apparently urging the electors to vote on Dec. 14.​

Mr. Chesebro sought assurances from Mr. Wilenchik that he would quickly file papers to the U.S. Supreme Court contesting a ruling by Arizona’s Supreme Court affirming Mr. Biden’s win in the state.

“Reason is that Kelli Ward & Kelly Townsend just spoke to the mayor about the campaign’s request that all electors vote Monday in all contested states,” Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Wilenchik, apparently referring to a conversation with Mr. Giuliani.
He said that the concern from Ms. Ward and Ms. Townsend was that activating an alternate group of electors in favor of Mr. Trump “could appear treasonous” in the absence of a pending lawsuit. “Which is a valid point — in the Hawaii 1960 incident, when the Kennedy electors voted, there was a pending recount,” Mr. Chesebro added.
He was referring to an instance that he and others were using as a foundation for their argument that they could put forward fake slates of electors. In 1960, the result of the election in Hawaii was unsettled as the Electoral College was close to meeting. The governor certified a slate of electors in favor of Richard M. Nixon, who claimed he had won as the recount continued. John F. Kennedy also formed a slate of electors.
When the vote count was finished, Mr. Kennedy had won, and his slate of electors ultimately was certified.
However, little about the 1960 incident resembled what happened in 2020. By the time the Electoral College met on Dec. 14, 2020, the votes had all been counted, Mr. Biden had been declared the winner and various courts had tossed challenges filed by Mr. Trump’s allies.
In a follow-up email, Mr. Chesebro wrote that he no longer saw “cause for concern” because a legal action some of the group planned to file was “at the printer” and that the Supreme Court considers an action docketed whenever it is mailed. He wrote that it would be in the mail by the time the Electoral College met.

Mr. Wilenchik filed the petition the same day, records show. (The Supreme Court denied the petition in February 2021. )

In the weeks after the election, Mr. Chesebro wrote a series of memos outlining a plan to send so-called alternate electors to Congress for the certification. A little more than two weeks after Election Day, Mr. Chesebro sent a memo to James Troupis, another lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, laying out a plan to name pro-Trump electors in that state, which was also won by Mr. Biden.
Mr. Chesebro also sent a Dec. 13, 2020, email to Mr. Giuliani that encouraged Vice President Mike Pence to “firmly take the position that he, and he alone, is charged with the constitutional responsibility not just to open the votes, but to count them — including making judgments about what to do if there are conflicting votes.”
That idea became the basis for Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign against Mr. Pence in which the president attempted to convince his own vice president that he could block or delay the congressional certification of Mr. Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Chesebro also was involved in a Dec. 24, 2020, email exchange with John C. Eastman, the pro-Trump lawyer, over whether to file legal papers that they hoped might prompt four justices to agree to hear an election case from Wisconsin.
In those emails, Mr. Chesebro argued that the “odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.”
Their exchange took place five days after Mr. Trump issued a call for his supporters to attend a protest at the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress would certify the electoral vote count confirming Mr. Biden’s victory. “Be there. Will be wild!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.

8 hours in a row on the Smithsonian Channel. It's 1939 right now and the US has 600k bodies in all of the services combined. 1903 Springfield bolt action rife is still the main issue. Hitler has been building a war machine for years. We are unprepared. In the US the public is widely divided between involvement and isolation...

Sexism alive and well in America.

You read that right. Here's what the Chicago Sun-Times story says today:

"Chennedy Carter’s foul on Clark came as both players stood waiting for the ball to be inbounded, and officials did not review it in the moment. Had officials reviewed Carter’s foul in the moment and upgraded it to a Flagrant 1, Clark would have shot two free throws instead of one."

The upgrade still does matter though, because players who accrue enough flagrant 1 fouls can be suspended for a game or two, so that's something. But to not make the call at the moment and to not review one of the most thuggish intentional fouls you'll ever see is still another egregious indictment of the WNBA and the incompetence of the league and, especially, its so-called "officials." And because it was such a physical takedown and because Carter can be seen calling CC "a bitch," it also should have been a technical foul. That aspect wasn't addressed by the WNBA. I guess their officials are deaf as well as blind, and no one there can read lips.

And the fact remains that if you did to a person on the street what Carter did to Clark on the basketball court, you'd be facing an assault charge. And I'm gonna go ahead and say this too, because it's true: What do you think the reaction would have been if a white player had said that and done that to a black player? Exactly . . . there would have been a riot on the floor.

Again, gotta respect the integrity and saavy of CC who keeps taking the cheapest shots the WNBA can muster, aided and abetted by a biased and incompetent set of officials. I'm sure I wouldn't have such grace and composure.

The ONLY way for the WNBA to stop the anti-Clark behavior (i.e, hard screens, cheap shots and Referee bias) is to start with this Carter thug and impose a significant fine$$.

Most of these players are not making that much money and a fine would perhaps jar their limited brains into behaving like civilized adults playing a ruled game.

Secondly, this problem was hatched from the first Fever game when it became clear that the WNBA referees were locked and loaded with an anti-Clark attitude where they ignore all these instances of hard screens, constant shoves and grabs on Clark...meanwhile aggressively calling nit pick fouls on her. The players aren't dumb enough to not realize the officials seem to be allies in this anti-Clark behavior. In general they are biased against the Fever and double that with Clark.

One game a player stuck her foot out and block a Clark pass and then got ball and ran down for a layup ....and not one Referee made the call of kicking the ball. That just goes down as a turnover!

I don't trust the WNBA Commissioner at this point. She should have been out in front of thise and had direct conversations with the Officials group to monitor the situation. The scheduling of Fever games already is suspicious that those in charge of WNBA condone and at very least turn a blind eye to it.


BTW, it's not just Black players beating on Clark...White players like butt-hurt Stewart coward that flattened Clark with a screen have done thier share.

At the end of this year, Clark needs to demand a trade from this awful team that...otherwise move on to better things than WNBA cesspool.

It's hard to disagree with Boot on this:

By Max Boot
Columnist
Today at 12:09 p.m. EST


After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, President John F. Kennedy did not insist that the operation actually went about as well as expected or try to shift the blame to the Cuban exiles. Instead, the White House issued this statement: “President Kennedy has stated from the beginning that as President he bears sole responsibility. ... The President is strongly opposed to anyone within or without the administration attempting to shift the responsibility.”
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Because of JFK’s willingness to take ownership of a debacle, his public standing went up, not down. “The worse I do, the more popular I get,” he marveled.
That is a lesson President Biden should take to heart in how to handle the continuing fallout of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, which seared into our collective memory horrifying images of desperate Afghans clinging to the landing gear of U.S. aircraft in a desperate bid to escape Taliban tyranny. Even as more than 20 million Afghans stand on the brink of starvation, he continues to engage in unseemly buck-passing that only hurts his popularity and undermines his credibility.















Biden’s most complete statement on Afghanistan was an Aug. 31 speech in which he accepted “responsibility” for the decision yet insisted, incredibly enough, that the evacuation was an “extraordinary success.” He focused on the 120,000 people evacuated from Kabul, even though, by some estimates, 90 percent of the interpreters and other Afghans holding special immigrant visas were left behind.
Biden blamed Afghan troops for not holding on “as long as anyone expected” after they had been abandoned by their U.S. allies, but he claimed, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the administration was “ready” when Kabul fell. “The bottom line,” he said, “is there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, and threats we faced.”

Politico aptly headlined its story on the speech “Biden tries to shift blame on Afghanistan.” The president’s unwillingness to grapple with his own failures contributed, I believe, to the precipitous decline in his popularity that began in August and has continued to the present day.







Also continuing to the present day is Biden’s blame-shifting on Afghanistan. Last week, in an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, he refused to accept the accounts of U.S. military commanders who said that the administration failed to prepare for the rapid rise of the Taliban and the resulting need to evacuate so many people. “No,” Biden said. “No, that’s not what I was told.” Asked whether he was rejecting the commanders’ testimony, he said, “Yes, I am. I am rejecting them.”
Biden can reject what the officers said, but their accounts — released to my Post colleagues Dan Lamothe and Alex Horton under a Freedom of Information Act request — have the ring of truth, and it is insulting to the military to pretend otherwise. Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top U.S. commander on the ground during the August evacuation, told Army investigators that the military would have been “much better prepared to conduct a more orderly” evacuation “if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground.” Marine Brig. Gen. Farrell J. Sullivan, who commanded the Marines at the airport, said, “In my opinion, the NSC [National Security Council] was not seriously planning for an evacuation,” and that until early August it was “like pulling teeth” to get the U.S. Embassy to discuss the subject.
Their accounts comport with the findings of George Packer, whose Atlantic article “The Betrayal” offers the fullest and most depressing chronicle of the shambolic exit from Afghanistan. Refugee advocates begged the administration to begin airlifting vulnerable Afghans to Guam for asylum processing in early 2021, when the United States still controlled air bases all over the country. White House officials responded, according to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), “We’re on it. Don’t worry. We know what we’re doing.” But they weren’t on it, and they didn’t know what they were doing.


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Packer paints a devastating picture of a White House more concerned with “optics” — it would look bad, officials feared, to begin a large-scale evacuation — than about saving Afghans who had risked their lives to help U.S. forces. “This sluggishness in the face of impending calamity,” Packer writes, “continued the same self-deception, prevarication, and groupthink — the same inability to grasp the hard truths of Afghanistan — that had plagued the entire 20-year war.”
It is easy to blame staffers for this debacle, but the buck stops with the president. While showing empathy for fellow Americans, Biden has consistently displayed indifference to the fate of Afghans. (Some argue that Biden again displayed his indifference when he decided to give the families of 9/11 victims half of the $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds, rather than using the entire amount to relieve that country’s humanitarian disaster.) In early 2020, when Biden was asked whether would bear some responsibility for the loss of rights that Afghan women would suffer after a U.S. pullout, he responded, “Do I bear responsibility? Zero responsibility.”
I suspect Biden’s approval ratings might improve if he would rethink his Trump-like attempt to dodge responsibility for the biggest fiasco on his watch — so far.

If these ghetto thug lesbian bitches continue their hate viewers will tune this out. These officials are pathetic half lesbian bitches also. Caitlyn needs to kick one of them in the nuts as pay back

Michael Jordan......Net Worth is $2 Billion
Tiger Woods...........Net Worth is $ 1.1 Billion
Le Bron James.......Net Worth is $1 Billion

Basketball and Golf paved the way for these guys to have
their current net worth. Congrats to them.

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Enjoy your freedom and ordering your lunch in English today lads.

Spoke with Graceson yesterday about the visit, why he believes in Phil Parker, and we add an evaluation of his game.

STORY:

tickets in the 350 range down by the floor in the corners, center court is like 540

I have the old thread in a pdf and will add screen shots of the best posts. Word

Someone needs to tell them THAT THEY DON'T WORK!!! ZERO science supports any efficacy for masks against Covid. More science exists they didn't work at all!!! It was all control, political theatre. A real shit show on the American people.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

The Bears announced that Tory Taylor signed his rookie contract -- a 4-year deal worth around $4.8 million total, per Spotrac.

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FDIC put out last night 63 banks are on the brink of insolvency.


That's ****ing nuts.

I highly recommend watching Frontline's comprehensive summary on the historical and ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. This insightful documentary delves deep into the complex and often tumultuous history, providing a nuanced understanding of how both sides have arrived at their current circumstances. It’s an essential viewing for anyone looking to gain a well-rounded perspective on the conflict.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/netanyahu-america-the-road-to-war-in-gaza/

How much fun that would be
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