How Organized Is This Crime?
A question that keeps occurring to me as I read articles like this (Arizona Officials Warned Fake Electors Plan Could ‘Appear Treasonous’) is exactly how organized the operation to overthrow the election was. The article describes a state organization questioning a group of “outsiders” advising them on the illegal steps to take. Similar things seem to have happened in other states, with more or less questioning.
The names Giuliani, Cheesebro, and Eastman appear repeatedly in these outreaches to state organizations, although Trump himself contacted the Georgia officials in his search for 11,000 or so votes.
Were Giuliani, Cheesebro, and Eastman doing this state organizing as good volunteers for “the big guy,” in Matt Gaetz’s reference to Trump in his conversation with Roger Stone? Trump has a history of wishing something were true and having toadies who were only to willing to make it so. Or was Trump involved more directly, beyond Georgia?
We can hope that the Department of Justice and others are asking these questions.