Thread by @QOrigins

ASOG and Phil Waldron are names you know if you’ve followed @get_innocuous.

If you haven’t: ASOG is a firm that makes its living telling failed Republican candidates — many who lost in primaries, some that lost in general elections — that they lost bc of fraud.

Waldron is scum.

https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1468760407275761665

Anyway, read the thread to see how these people — many of whom were and *are* instrumental in Stop the Steal bullshit — wanted to do a coup to ignore the election results with the help of SCOTUS and Pence.

This document was *in the hands of the White House Chief of Staff.*

Note that this “re-run the election” idea is fairly similar to what Sidney Powell and Mike Flynn pitched in the White House meeting with Trump on December 18.

Why would that be attractive to the Trump camp? Two reasons — first, obviously, Trump lost and they wanted a do-over.

Second, there was always the chance that — if Trump tried this obvious coup and was somehow able to get a “re-do” election declared — Dems would say: fuck you, this isn’t legitimate, we aren’t going to participate.

And this would let Trump “win” the re-do by a huge margin.

Pro tip: it is never the right move to contest a coup attempt by closing your eyes and pretending that it isn’t really happening.

This also extends to *punishing the failed coup.* And so far, Dems are really going “LA LA LA, EVERYTHING IS FINE” on *that* front, aren’t they? JFC.

P.S. On closer inspection I think it IS the plan Powell, Flynn, & Byrne walked into the White House to pitch on December 18– it’s just that Byrne left some details out in his otherwise quite thorough account.

You can read the whole thread or just one of many terrifying excerpts:

https://twitter.com/QOrigins/status/1356516817456386048