Thread by @TaylorMatthewD

This new article from @NormEisen should send a chill down the spine of every democracy-loving American!

Here's the big picture: Trump's friends & allies are actively monkeying w/ vote-counting procedures in swing states in ways that could matter.

Let's look at the pattern... 1/

https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1821691093941158384

Evidence 1:

@NormEisen outlines how the America First Policy Institute (Trump Admin 2.0 in waiting) & the new *2020 ELECTION-DENYING MAJORITY* on the Georgia state election board are making it easier for local election officials to halt counting at their discretion. 2/

Imagine a Trump-aligned GA local election official wants to, say, gum up the works of the vote-counting in a probable Harris-Walz county.

Using this rule, they could throw a spanner in the works, & functionally decertify votes on a whim + thin assertion of "irregularities." 3/

Evidence 2:

This @axios article from June describes the Trump campaign investing heavily -- *more heavily even than in their "get out the vote" efforts* -- to have shock-troop legal teams ready to contest voting activities in swing states. 4/

axios.com/2024/06/02/leg…

Giuliani & Powell were clownish in their efforts to legally contest the election in 2020, but this is a far more sophisticated & coordinated effort.

Trump is chaotic, but he's surrounded by a very skilled & conniving set of advisors & operatives.

Don't underestimate them. 5/

Evidence 3:

My tweet thread from last week. I witnessed up close & talked to the leader of a Trump-aligned "Christian ministry" aimed at enlisting *2020 ELECTION DENIERS* as swing-state election workers.

They're putting reality-detached ppl inside! 6/

https://x.com/TaylorMatthewD/status/1819236153196687639

This "Christian ministry" (Lion of Judah) is part of a mass Christian nationalist voter mobilization scheme (disguised as a revival tour) orchestrated by leading Trump spiritual propagandist Lance Wallnau in close coordination w/... Guess who?

America First Policy Institute. 7/

Do you see the pattern?

The Trump campaign & its allies are mounting a full-spectrum barrage on the most strategically important elements of our voting infrastructure.

They're targeting hinge points where a tiny bit of interference can derail the whole electoral process. 8/

1) Trump operatives are insinuating themselves onto election boards to change policies in Trump's favor (& create vulnerabilities in the systems) before any voting even takes place.

This confers authority on tactics that'd be obviously illegitimate if enacted after Nov 5. 9/

2) Trump-aligned conspiracy theorists are being inserted into the ground-level vote counting.

These "Trojan Horse"s are pre-positioned to "step forward" with claims of voting "irregularities".

They're being coached to blow false whistles & generate false evidence of fraud. 10/

3) The Trump-campaign has already hired elite legal teams to prosecute these cases to the Nth degree.

The 2020 Giuliani/Powell BS legal challenges were so thin even *this* Supreme Court couldn't stomach them.

This new initiative makes "Stop the Steal" claims respectable. 11/

If Trump's declared the winner, of course, these implanted assets will celebrate & his legal machinery will pivot to defend the very systems they've sought to corrupt.

If Trump is declared the loser, then it's havoc w/ endless fights over "evidence" of a stolen election. 12/

Plus, Trump now has a servile *ELECTION DENYING* confederate, Mike Johnson, in as Speaker of the House.

McConnell soft-pedaled using the Senate to promote Trump's lies in 2020 & Pelosi shut it down in the House.

How much legitimacy can Johnson confer w/ official hearings? 13/

Picture the 2000 election legal fray mixed w/ Trump's 2020 election lies.

Throw in Proud Boys,
Oath Keepers,
Groypers,
New Apostolic Reformation spiritual warriors,
QAnon,
and Michael Flynn's lunatic army in the streets.

That's the scene if Trump loses in November. 14/