Recommended: At Regular Order, Jamie Dupree reports on his discovery of U.S. Capitol security tapes from Jan. 5, 2021 showing Pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro and Donald Trump deputy director of Election Day operations G. Michael Brown handing off fraudulent "electoral slates" from Michigan and Wisconsin Republicans to staffers from Rep. Mike Kelly's office.
The footage is important; it shows the exact moments Chesebro and Brown delivered the fake "electoral slates," it shows who received them, and it proves that the pair did succeed in smuggling the fraudulent documents into the U.S. Capitol. It was only at the last moment that the plan went awry:
Back inside, the two staffers from the office of Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) - carrying the two envelopes handed over by Chesebro and Brown - took the underground tunnels over to the U.S. Capitol.
Their destination was the office of the Senate Parliamentarian, which was ransacked a day later - on Jan. 6 - by supporters of Donald Trump.
Security video shows the aides dropping off the fake elector envelopes at 4:04 pm, but before they could get far, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ran around the corner to catch the two men. After a short discussion in the hallway, the Kelly aides returned to her office and took back the fake elector documents.
A source familiar with the matter says that the Parliamentarian's office refused to accept the envelopes. Security video shows the men leaving at 4:07 pm.
"The failure to deliver the fake elector packets would spur more efforts on Jan. 6 - some involving Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) - to get the documents to Vice President Pence," reports Dupree.
The new evidence may prove useful in prosecutions of Chesebro and others involved in the fraudulent electors schemeโthe very scheme that led Trump to condemn Vice President Mike Pence even as violent pro-Trump insurrectionists attacked police officers in their efforts to hunt down Pence and members of Congress. But it also demonstrates, yet again, that the "fake electors" plan had accomplices in numerous House and Senate Republican offices. And the plan came very, very close to "working."
Read it at Regular Order.
Jamie Dupree
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