The Republican senators and House members who are affecting to sorta-maybe-not really believe in the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are participating in a knowing fraud. They know — and you can know — they are participating in a fraud by their actions, namely their proposed remedy: a fantasy ten-day “audit” of the results supposedly modeled on the 1876 Electoral Commission. Such a plan is illegal, a deep infringement on the states, but also time-limited not to interfere with what they know will happen — the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on January 20.
The president’s legal team, gifted with incredible resources by campaign donors and other saps, has been unable to turn up anything to substantiate its claims of material election fraud. There is nothing in the voter rolls, no suspected perps, and no witnesses ready to testify in court (which is a different thing from testifying in a hotel ballroom) to material fraud. There is only a tape — doctored by Rudy Giuliani — and various theories and extrapolations.
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