Here’s just one little piece of it explained by @atrupar:
I’m going to do a thread on highlights from the full 35-page pro-coup PowerPoint that was circulating in Trumpworld ahead of January 6.
You can read the whole document for yourself here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210716135230/https://ingersolllockwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/voter-fraud.pdf
Follow along for my thread, which I’ll add to as I go.
The document, titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for JAN 6,” opens with a crazy conspiracy theory aimed at basically disenfranchising anyone who voted by mail.
Recall that Trump spent much of 2020 preemptively conspiracy-mongering about mail voting.
It’s odd to me that Minnesota was included among the states where the results were to be challenged. Not only did Biden carry the state by more than 7 points, but Republicans don’t control the legislature there. (The governor is a Dem and the state House is controlled by Dems.)
As evidence of “irregularities” the document cites debunked (see: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/04/fact-check-no-vote-counting-democrat-led-states-hasnt-stopped/6163978002/) claims that amount to insisting counting all the votes is fraudulent
This stuff about Venezuela being involved in an international conspiracy to rig the US election echoes the widely mocked claims about Hugo Chavez that Sidney Powell was pushing in November 2020
It’s not necessarily notable that people were pushing wild conspiracy theories like this after the election. What is notable is that they made their way into the inbox of the White House chief of staff and reportedly into briefings given to Trump-backing members of Congress.
Originally tweeted by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on December 12, 2021.
This batshit crazy stuff was circulating all over Capitol Hill, in the right wing press and, of course, in the White House. The most shocking are the Senators and members of congress who never said a word and support Donald Trump to this day.