Here's something to keep in mind about yesterday's federal criminal indictment of former President Trump.

It is a huge national, even global story.

Honestly one of the biggest news events of our time, of any time. But it is also very much a local news story. Here's

the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Efforts to overturn Georgia election

detailed in new Trump indictment and the Detroit news. Donald Trump made Georgia election

indictment says.

the new Trump Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sentinel, Wisconsin Fake Elector Scheme is at the center of Donald Trump indictment.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, what to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned

in Trump's third indictment. The criminal conspiracy alleged in this

new indictment of Donald Trump had the biggest and gravest national ambitions to hold on to the presidency against the will of the

voters. But the conspiracy itself played out in localities across the country

in what we now call the fake elector scheme.

The scheme in which Republican electors and states that Joe Biden won

signed their names to forged documents pretending that it was actually Donald Trump who

won the presidential election in those states.

At the time, as it was actually playing out in December of 2020, it mostly looked like sort of sad theatrics

from a bunch of pro-Trump dead-enders in a handful of states. There were the Trump electors in Michigan kind of pathetically

trying to talk their way into the state capital even though the real electors,

the Biden electors, were already inside certifying their votes. In Georgia, while the real Biden electors were certifying their votes.

In Georgia, while the real Biden electors were certifying their votes in the state

capital, the Trump electors found themselves in some room somewhere else in the building

to cast their fake votes.

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