We've been discussing the results of the January 6th papers over at arr law this afternoon, and the more I look at all the various bits we can see here, vs what other public info we already knew... the more it becomes obvious just how insidious this all was. These documents don't necessarily have new info, but the evidence makes it *explicitly clear just how criminal and deliberate the actions of Trump and his co-conspirators were*, and it ties into things they want to do in the future as well...

1. First, Trump tried to pressure states to refuse to certify the results, citing fraud. It did not matter what the actual amount of fraud was, whether it existed, or what the numbers of fraudulent votes were. None of the swing state reps would go along with this plot because it was obvious nonsense and basically a massive conspiracy. You can see this very clearly if you read his arguments about the fraud numbers in the phone call to Georgia. He made up different numbers on the fly and they constantly were being contradicted, **but the accuracy of the numbers was never the point,** ***it was only a narrative to publicly sell the 'real' plan, which was to say that the vote totals could not possibly be legitimate.***
2. [There's a memo that summarizes the goal of the alternate electors plan that's in the documents.](https://imgur.com/a/kzRfzqU) It makes it clear that they (Eastman?) were going to use a legal argument **claiming the 12th amendment gave the VP the constitutional powers to ignore the 1887 Electoral Counts Act entirely**, and that gave him the authority to either accept alternate electors, or to deny cert for those states who sent them (the swing states) entirely (*because those state results were "fraudulent and illegitimate"*), simply throwing out the swing states and leaving there to be no clear path to any candidate reaching 270. They could then throw the election to the house (with the SCOTUS' blessing), where each state gets one vote on who will be president, meaning Trump would likely be picked by the house as the winner since there would be more majority red states than blue states in the end and each state only gets one vote.
3. Mike Pence was expected to go along with this plan because they figured he'd pick party over country. If, for example, JD Vance was in his place in 2020, he would have agreed to do it. Pence refused outright, as he makes very clear in a letter within the documents, and based on passages from his book. This screwed over Trump's entire plan, so the January 6th riot was concocted, based on Roger Stone's [Brooks Brothers Riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot) in the 2000 Florida election (which had basically been a smaller scale successful version of January 6th), as a way to force Pence out, and have the next in line, Chuck Grassley, accept the alternate electors instead. **This is why Trump constantly threatened and intimidated Pence, and ultimately said he did not care if Pence was harmed, because at that point Pence ruined his grand plan to stay in power.**
4. Donald Trump then used both his election fraud claims via twitter (as summarized in Appendix #2) and other public channels and his typical "charisma" **to incite the mob into rioting at the capitol on January 6th, 2021 (again, with Roger Stone collaborating along with the Proud Boys and other groups), as the main way to get Pence offsite and away from the capitol.** Pence refused to leave, at one point even suspecting the secret service members could be in on the plan to get him out of the capitol. He refused to leave both because he knew he could be in danger, and because he knew if he left, he would likely not make it back to certify, and Grassley would potentially take over his role instead. This is also why the mob chanted things like "hang mike pence" and why Trump called out Pence specifically to target him in his tweets. Roger Stone and Trump had been in on the idea to attack and discredit Pence.

Ultimately, I can't tell you who was the original architect of the plan, whether it was Trump himself, Bannon, Stone, Eastman, or someone else, but ultimately they all conspired together with a very, very deliberate conspiracy to bypass the election results entirely and hand him the election, regardless of either the popular vote, or the electoral college results. **This was a conspiracy on a grand scale that failed mostly because Trump did not have loyalists fully in place when they carried it out.** They never, ever intended to certify the legitimate election results. Trump was in on this from day one, and followed the plan to a tee, sewing doubt in the results with his rhetoric deliberately for months before even the very first vote was ever cast. I don't know when they first came up with the plan, but you could tell he was up to something because he started casting doubt on the vote by summer 2020, [then went all in on claiming fraud for the rest of the year nonstop.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR8oIitE6mI)

Trump was fully in on this plan from the start. He used disinformation and doubt, no matter how inconsistent, to do this. He did not care how ridiculous his fraud claims sounded, because it was all meant to be a loyalty test to see who would agree to serve him, and who would not. He lost because he did not fully have all the loyalists in positions of power that he wanted, so his plan failed. **That is why he and his supporters came up with project 2025, to ensure that they would have absolute authority to prevent another January 6th plot from failing, because a key point of project 2025 is giving him absolute power to hand pick who is in place within thousands of federal positions. This is why JD Vance was picked, because Trump and Project 2025's backers believe that Vance is a true believer.**