It looks like #45 was too cheap to hire professional stooges. So they went out and recruited more or less normal retrumplicans to take the fall.

"Three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump — and are now charged alongside him in a sprawling racketeering indictment brought by local prosecutors — say they took the steps they did because Trump, then the sitting president, told them to.

In a series of court filings this week, those false electors, who became part of Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, said it was Trump and his campaign lawyers who urged them to sign the false documents, claiming they were necessary to preserve Trump’s flailing court efforts to reverse his defeat to Joe Biden. That exhortation from Trump’s campaign lawyers, they said, amounted to federal government permission to take the actions they did.

The three false electors making the argument are David Shafer, a former state GOP chair; Shawn Still, now a state senator; and Cathleen Latham, a local GOP official.

“Mr. Still, as a presidential elector, was also acting at the direction of the incumbent president of the United States,” an attorney for Still argued Thursday in a court filing seeking to transfer the case against him to federal court. “The president’s attorneys instructed Mr. Still and the other contingent electors that they had to meet and cast their ballots on Dec. 14, 2020.”

Latham similarly argued that she was acting “at the direction. of the President of the United States.” And Shafer in a similar petition seeking to move the Fulton County case to federal court contended that he “and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/co-defendant-georgia-trump-indictment-00112932

Lock them up.

TB

On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 12:14:15 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> It looks like #45 was too cheap to hire professional stooges. So they went out and recruited more or less normal retrumplicans to take the fall.
>
> "Three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump — and are now charged alongside him in a sprawling racketeering indictment brought by local prosecutors — say they took the steps they did because Trump, then the sitting president, told them to.
>
> In a series of court filings this week, those false electors, who became part of Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, said it was Trump and his campaign lawyers who urged them to sign the false documents, claiming they were necessary to preserve Trump’s flailing court efforts to reverse his defeat to Joe Biden. That exhortation from Trump’s campaign lawyers, they said, amounted to federal government permission to take the actions they did.
>
> The three false electors making the argument are David Shafer, a former state GOP chair; Shawn Still, now a state senator; and Cathleen Latham, a local GOP official.
>
> “Mr. Still, as a presidential elector, was also acting at the direction of the incumbent president of the United States,” an attorney for Still argued Thursday in a court filing seeking to transfer the case against him to federal court. “The president’s attorneys instructed Mr. Still and the other contingent electors that they had to meet and cast their ballots on Dec. 14, 2020.”
>
> Latham similarly argued that she was acting “at the direction. of the President of the United States.” And Shafer in a similar petition seeking to move the Fulton County case to federal court contended that he “and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials.”
>
> https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/co-defendant-georgia-trump-indictment-00112932
>
> Lock them up.
>
> TB

Many fellow conspirators tried the same defense at Nuremberg.... Of course, in GA, nobody got killed, and their scheme didn't work... "Brad" just said "No!", when he was asked to find those 11,870 extra votes from nowhere..... No harm, = No fowl.... They were just following instructions from their Fearless Leader.... HawHawHaw!

Jedge Humps Jr.

On 8/25/2023 5:00 PM, Don Lampson wrote:
> On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 12:14:15 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
>> It looks like #45 was too cheap to hire professional stooges. So they went out and recruited more or less normal retrumplicans to take the fall.
>>
>> "Three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump — and are now charged alongside him in a sprawling racketeering indictment brought by local prosecutors — say they took the steps they did because Trump, then the sitting president, told them to.
>>
>> In a series of court filings this week, those false electors, who became part of Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, said it was Trump and his campaign lawyers who urged them to sign the false documents, claiming they were necessary to preserve Trump’s flailing court efforts to reverse his defeat to Joe Biden. That exhortation from Trump’s campaign lawyers, they said, amounted to federal government permission to take the actions they did.
>>
>> The three false electors making the argument are David Shafer, a former state GOP chair; Shawn Still, now a state senator; and Cathleen Latham, a local GOP official.
>>
>> “Mr. Still, as a presidential elector, was also acting at the direction of the incumbent president of the United States,” an attorney for Still argued Thursday in a court filing seeking to transfer the case against him to federal court. “The president’s attorneys instructed Mr. Still and the other contingent electors that they had to meet and cast their ballots on Dec. 14, 2020.”
>>
>> Latham similarly argued that she was acting “at the direction. of the President of the United States.” And Shafer in a similar petition seeking to move the Fulton County case to federal court contended that he “and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials.”
>>
>> https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/co-defendant-georgia-trump-indictment-00112932
>>
>> Lock them up.
>>
>> TB
>
> Many fellow conspirators tried the same defense at Nuremberg.... Of course, in GA, nobody got killed, and their scheme didn't work... "Brad" just said "No!", when he was asked to find those 11,870 extra votes from nowhere.... No harm, = No fowl.... They were just following instructions from their Fearless Leader.... HawHawHaw!
>
> Jedge Humps Jr.

They're weaponizing the orange goon defense. HawHawHaw!