They are making claims. That's all. And their claims are nonsense.
1. There was no "agreement to defraud the United States".
2. There was no intention of "interfering with the election certification process".
3. There was no "disseminating false information about election fraud".
4. There was no "pressuring state officials to alter state election results and federal officials to assist in that effort".
There was no ____ ? Yes there was.
1. Agreement to defraud the US
If the Constitution is the law of the land, violating the Constitution is unlawful. Trump sent a tweet out: 8:17 a.m. @realDonaldTrump
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
Trump was warned that the neither the 12th A , nor the Federal election code have any reference to the VP either sending a delegation back to the state legislature or that the VP has authority to reject a slate by himself. Or herself.
The other aspect of the agreement to defraud the US was that their fundraising was tied to their claims of fraud and they took in a mountain of $.
2. Intention of "interfering with the election certification process"
The process trump and John Eastman were trying to use was invented. It's not in the Constitution. Trump wanted the DOJ, DHS and the pentagon to get invoved in supporting his plan.
- November 7, 2020 - Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. He is replaced by Christopher Miller.
- Nov 12 and 13 - Trump removes senior Defense Department Officials and replaces them with appointments to ‘acting’ roles.
- Dec 15 - Rosen meets with Trump at the White House. According to Rosen’s public testimony to the Senate, Trump wanted him to appoint a special counsel to investigate fraud and to take further action in states like GA, MI, and PA. Rosen declined to agree.
- Dec 28 - Jeffrey Clarke sends a draft letter to DOJ leadership urging that the Governors and Legislatures should hold emergency sessions and recall their Electoral College slates. None of them called a session to recind the slates they chose on Dec. 14 .
- Jan 4 - U.S. Attorney Jay Pak resigns after he refuses to comply with White House demands.
3. "Disseminating false information about election fraud"
The mountains of evidence have been soundly refuted, repeatedly. Marc Elias & others had the same strategy for 60 court cases. Show the internet version (usualy YT )
right next to the actual footage on identical screens and it's obvious what part was deleted. In a few cases the effect was done with looping a section of the original . Virtually all of those were either computer animated deep fake videos, or edited by cutting parts out , and when shown in a real court of law side by side , the real and original video was obvious and the fake on YT was plainly counterfeit. Eventually, their legal options had exhausted before January 2021
. There were speculative math theories, there were conspiracy theories, but nothing was accepted as evidence when every bit of it was being debunked in front of a judge. If the plaintiff runs out of 'evidence' , there is nothing to argue in court.
That means all those claims to a mountain of evidence were never proven. That's spreading false information, or "Disseminating false information about election fraud" .
4. "Pressuring state officials to alter state election results and federal officials to assist in that effort".
January 2, 2020
We have the tape. “You know what they did and you’re not reporting it,” the president said during the call. “You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”
“So look.
All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”…“There’s no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call. “There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”
The Select Committee is bound by law to release all materials to the public after their final report. That's transparency. They know that now, and they have the receipts,