Hmm...before I go all off-topic, I'll better elaborate on my thoughts of the matter. Though I'll probably won't make friends with it. Why? Because it's a general, uninteresting "okay...so what?".
This is just one part of the larger election interference case, and not exactly the most exciting one. The whole ploy with these 12 fake electorates isn't about them but about those who cooked it up. But Jenna Ellis and later Sidney Powell flipping: THAT was the big news. This is just...I don't know. For all I know, all 12 of those are innocent.
Not 'correct', obviously, but what's their story? They got an official letter from their state saying that they were picked as the electorates. Claiming they're guilty means you have to prove they KNEW they weren't the real ones and that they PURPOSEFULLY were going to ignore the outcome and instead vote for Trump. Again: I don't care if they knew or not. I care about the intentions of those sending them out to do their job.
(miserably because they couldn't even enter the building, which...is about as far as this would-be coup would go).
Is it? Look...I know Giuliany made that "fight like hell" remark, and Trump's flirting with the proud boys and his innuendo make him clearly guilty, but if you take team Trump out of the picture, what exactly do you have? Josh Hawley raising his fist in solidarity is honestly all I can think of (and boy did he run away from the people he "encouraged").
On the other side: McCarthey I can't stand, but he condemned the attack to the point where he didn't speak to Trump until recently. Republican offices were ransacked right alongside democrat ones, and I simply don't believe that anyone but Trump himself would think it'd be a good idea to have his vice president hung on the steps of the capitol for not breaking the law.
So...no. If you ask me, a few nitwits had fantasies of a power grab (again: Hawley) but the majority of that party just expected some rowdy protesters outside while they went about their day.
