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Terri Smith's avatar

Wow, thank you for the link to the funeral piece. Anyone who skipped it, go back.

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Michael P Stein's avatar

I was flabbergasted by this in David von Drehle's August 3rd opinion piece: "conspiring to commit a fraud that was not ultimately committed". We punish people who attempt but do not succeed at armed robbery; we punish people for attempting but failing to succeed at murder. The false elector scheme and urging Pence to turn the matter back to the states constituted attempts at fraud. The fact that the false elector slates were not accepted and Pence refused to take an action with no basis in law does not make the attempt by Trump and his co-conspirators any less criminal.

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