Two days after the 2020 election, alleged cocaine enthusiast and still a disappointment to his parents Donald Trump Jr. texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with a plan to nullify the inevitable election victory for Joe Biden by fascistically using government agencies to void the valid results, CNN reports. “We have multiple paths We control them all,” noting that the Trump camp has “operational control” over government to order vote tallies suppressed.
He went on, continuing his inability to use punctuation: “We have operational control Total leverage Moral High Ground POTUS must start 2nd term now.” It’s likely, but not known if Junior was under the influence of a narcotic when he wrote Meadows, though by all appearances it would seem to be the product of a cocaine-induced mania given the rapid fire semi-sentences in the texts. “Republicans control Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina etc we get Trump electors, Republicans control 28 states Democrats 22… Once again Trump wins. We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January 2021… Fire Wray, Fire Fauci… select Special prosecutor on HardDrivefromHell Biden crime family.” Not described in the CNN article are Meadows’ replies. Probably they were simply “Okay Don” or something similar.
What’s clearer however is he did appear to be under the influence of very bad legal advice. Junior pushed a claim that would later be echoed by disgraced lawyers like John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani: Republicans in Congress could simply ignore the results and install his daddy in for a second term. Likely taking his strategy from someone on Twitter, Junior urged Meadows to have shadow slates of electors appointed by Trump-loyal anti-Constitutionalists in battleground states. The existence of those shadow electors would force Congress to refuse to count those states’ designated electors, and voila! the Republicans in the House elect Trump because their state delegations outnumber Democratic delegations. That interpretation of the function of Congress and the Electoral College has been laughed out of discussions by Constitutional experts and anyone with an iota of constitutional law. Even one of the advocates of the plan, Eastman, noted that laws would have to be broken for that to take place.