Donald just took another significant step toward eroding the rule of law in the United States of America.

Let's go back to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

In case you don't remember, I'm going to play you a bit of Donald's January 2021 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger. This is Donald trying to coerce an

elected official into falsifying election results. Check it out. So look, all I want to do is this. I just

want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state.

That's an oddly specific number, 11,780.

It must just be a coincidence that Donald would randomly say such a specific number.

Oh, wait, no, not a coincidence at all because it turns out that 11,780 votes was the margin of his loss in the state of Georgia.

And he wanted Brad Raffinsberger to find just enough votes to push Donald

over the edge. To recap, in the aftermath of the 2020 election that Donald lost decisively to

Joe Biden, he and his conspirators tried to overturn the results of that free and fair election by creating fake slates of electors who would be in Donald's pocket in states Biden actually won.

Instead of certifying the legitimate electors chosen by voters, allies in multiple swing states met secretly, signed documents falsely, claiming that they were, quote, unquote, duly elected electors.

These fraudulent certificates were then sent to Congress and the National Archives.

Nineteen people were indicted in that election scheme,

including Donald. NBC News created a compilation of all of those co-conspirators mugshots.

Let's take a look at these. That's a fun bunch. Well, turns out as Politica reports,

over the weekend, Donald issued sweeping unconditional pardons to several of the

people pictured in that last slide.

Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and dozens of others who

helped him attempt to overturn the 2020

election. The pardons cover broad range of actions related to his fake elector scheme. It also

applies to these people's efforts to pressure state officials and attempt to block election

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