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The Counsel

Note from Elie: What If They All Went Along With It?

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:36.3

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0:37.9

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0:58.3

What if they all went along with it?

1:02.1

What if the Justice Department had gone along with Donald Trump?

1:06.5

Jeffrey Clark, who has taken the fifth and was recently the subject of a federal search warrant,

1:10.7

would have become the acting attorney general, the top prosecutor in the country.

1:16.1

DOJ would have issued a formal letter under its weighty seal, declaring the prosecutors had uncovered evidence of election fraud, quote, that may have impacted the outcome of the election

1:20.7

in multiple states, including the state of Georgia, end quote, and calling on those states to

1:25.8

hold special legislative sessions to consider appointing

1:28.5

electors for Trump, even though Joe Biden had rightly won those votes. And the Justice Department

1:34.1

would have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to invalidate the results of six swing states

1:39.0

that had gone for Biden. What if state and local election officials had gone along with it? In key states that Biden

1:46.8

had won, secretaries of state would have gone back and found enough votes to declare Trump the winner

1:51.9

by a single vote if necessary and handed those states' votes over to Donald Trump. What if governors

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