EXCLUSIVE: Trump vet pushed elector plot before Trump lost
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to get right into it because we have breaking news tonight. |
| 0:08.6 | Our top story tonight is new video evidence. |
| 0:10.8 | We just obtained on the now indicted electric plot staged by Donald Trump and his aides. |
| 0:15.8 | Now this video, which we are about to air for the first time in a moment, shows a key |
| 0:21.1 | long time Trump advisor planning and clearly promoting the idea of pushing electors to |
| 0:28.9 | override the state results in places Trump lost to steal the race from Biden. |
| 0:36.7 | And that's not all. |
| 0:38.9 | This new video obtained exclusively by the beat will add new information to the timeline |
| 0:44.6 | of how early Trump advisors and allies were exploring these plots, which went on very |
| 0:50.7 | infamously, to run all the way through the January 6 certification process. |
| 0:55.9 | Now you may recall the electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from Trump's early |
| 1:00.7 | efforts in the states to wider national efforts to create confusion about the results and |
| 1:05.4 | they went all the way up to Mike Pence, all the way up to a attempted ultimately thwarted |
| 1:11.1 | pretext that was going to be presented to Pence to try to help stage a coup on Jan 6. |
| 1:17.5 | In essence, it involved either installing completely fraudulent fake electors and we saw |
| 1:23.7 | some of those meetings or getting states to appoint Trump electors in the states that |
| 1:28.8 | Biden won or was winning and try to send those to Congress. |
| 1:33.3 | Unlike some of the other plots that we've covered, this one's already at the center of |
| 1:37.5 | three different cases, including indictments by DOJ's Jack Smith plus the probes in Michigan |
| 1:43.5 | and now Georgia where DA Fawni Willis just charged several Trump lawyers and aides for |
| 1:48.3 | these types of plots as part of the larger rico conspiracy. |
| 1:53.3 | That is why this scoop tonight's video may be of interest in the two big cases led |
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