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Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Since then, Chesebro, 62, has kept a low profile. He decamped to Puerto Rico from New York last year, and some friends said he’d fallen out of touch. A prominent law firm issued no public announcement last year when it tapped him to run a new department and added no mention of him to its website.
A Harvard-trained lawyer once keen on liberal causes, and registered as a Democrat as recently as 2016, Chesebro may be the least well known of the small set of figures key to both indictments. His retreat from public life since Jan. 6 has deepened the mystery for former classmates and colleagues puzzling over how he became a central player in plans to reverse the outcome of a democratic election.
The Jan 6th riot could not have happened if there was proper security in place.
originally posted by: network dude
What do the haters think? Is this possible? Is it likely? Or are the R's bad and D's good?
originally posted by: loveguy
What's the point in exercising hindsight these days?
originally posted by: loveguy
The Jan 6th riot could not have happened if there was proper security in place.
People forget the Capital was breached while Trump was still speaking at the podium, it wasn't his supporters that breached the capital initiated the "riot".
What's the point in exercising hindsight these days?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: loveguy
The Jan 6th riot could not have happened if there was proper security in place.
People forget the Capital was breached while Trump was still speaking at the podium, it wasn't his supporters that breached the capital initiated the "riot".
What's the point in exercising hindsight these days?
BS.
Trump ended his speech at 1:10pm.
At 1:17pm, Trump's motorcade departed from the elipse.
At 1:19pm the motorcade arrived at the White House. Trump spent hours watching news feeds of the Capitol crowds.
The barriers around the Capitol building were breached at 1:45pm
At 1:59pm the crowd had reached the outer doors and windows and were trying to break in.
Timeline of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
Around 1 p.m.
Pro-Trump rioters – including members of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group – overrun the first set of barriers outside the Capitol and start rushing toward the building. Top White House staffers, including Meadows, are quickly alerted by the US Secret Service that the police lines are collapsing at the Capitol, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.
originally posted by: Boomer1947
a reply to: network dude
You like conspiracies? Try this one on:
1) On December 14, 2020, the Electoral College announces that Biden won the election and Trump, therefore, is A LOSER. On the very same day, the Trump useful idiots in the swing states start mailing in the fake, forged elector certificates. Note that the only possible purpose of those illegal certificates is to be able to try to interfere with the transfer of power on Jan. 6, by getting Mike Pence (or whoever the acting President of the Senate happened to be) to nullify the results of the Electoral College.
This establishes Trump’s MOTIVE to overturn the election.
2) On December 19, 2020 Trump tells his supporters it’s statistically impossible for him to have lost the election, announces his Jan. 6 rally, and to “Be there. Will be wild”.
This establishes that Trump set up the OPPORTUNITY to overturn the Electoral College results.
3) In sworn testimony before Congress, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller says that on Jan. 4, 2021 Trump floated the idea that he (Trump) would personally lead the demonstrators on their march to the Capitol and that Miller should have 10,000 National Guard troops deployed to “protect” Trump and his demonstrators. Miller pushed back, said it would be a bad idea, and Trump never issued an order for troops. On Jan. 6, at the end of his speech, Trump tells his followers that he will accompany them to the Capitol. In sworn testimony, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump told his Secret Service after his speech at the rally to take him to the Capitol, but they refused and took him back to the Oval Office, instead. Trump spent the next 3 0r 4 hours glaring at the Fox News coverage of the riot and throwing ketchup against the wall.
If acting Sec Def Miller and the Secret Service had not pushed back against Trump, he would have ended up on Jan.6 personally leading an angry mob to the Capitol, accompanied by National Guards under his command as the Commander-in-Chief and with orders to “protect” him and his protestors.
Donald Trump was literally the only person on the planet who had the MOTIVE, the OPPORTUNITY, and access to the MEANS to implement an armed coup, all at the same time.
But sure, it must have been somebody else.
originally posted by: loveguy
The Jan 6th riot could not have happened if there was proper security in place.
People forget the Capital was breached while Trump was still speaking at the podium, it wasn't his supporters that breached the capital initiated the "riot".
What's the point in exercising hindsight these days?
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: VoiceofReality
Again, the Capitol was breeched before Trump had concluded his speech from a literal mile away......