these are people with bizarre, way outside the norms. alex jones is i think a convicted liable or slander against the sandy hook families. phil waldrun is way outside the norm of any ex-military adviser and carolyn was a fund-raiser and event planner whose name was on those permits. talk about the kind of people around trump and his white house in the final days. these are affirmers, nicolle. people who affirm the baser instincts of donald trump. these are individuals who the president would call at 1:00 in the morning or 3:00 in the afternoon instead of conducting the business and affairs of state, he s conducting the business and affairs of trump enterprises and trump enterprises in the white house really boiled down to how do we hold the power we have? how do we prosecute those who
party of today showcase someone who in normal times would be under incredible scrutiny, lawyering up. phil waldrun wrote a powerpoint that circulated among republicans and somehow it ended up in the documents produced by mark meadows to the january 6 select committee about how to overthrow the results. there s not two sides of this. there s one party that has its eye on the crisis to its existence. and that s republicans. republicans know they don t exist. if everyone can vote. republicans know that they have to keep their base cooked in the lie, cooked in the juice of fraud, of which there was none. and there are usually people who go to trump fraudulently or dead.
but crippling democracy may at this point be an understatement. sewing doubt about the 2020 election has become the gateway drug. it has ushered in casual voter nullification. the 2020 election fraud conspiracy, they re winning. trump allies continue their steady march to seize control of elections everywhere. take this new reporting in the washington post, quote. a retired army colonel who worked with then president trump s outside legal team to claim that the 2020 election results were rigged was an invited speaker tuesday. at a state commission charged with shaping louisiana s voting system. phil waldrun s 90-minute talk in louisiana came just days after revelations that he had briefed members of congress on powerpoint presentation that urged then vp mike pence on january 6th to reject electoral votes from quote, states where fraud occurred. replace them with republican