Robert Brookman
@RBrookman34
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Lawyer, political junkie and diehard Philly fan originally from Yardley, PA.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined June 2011
Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the following ways: 1. By perpetuating the lie that he won the presidential election and the election was stolen from him. He lied, to everyone, every day, from the day of the election through today, and helped create and spread innumerable fantasies of election fraud — from Dominion to ballot harvesting to whatever garbage right wing Twitter conjured up. 2. Calling election officials in each one of the large battleground states and attempting to convince them to overturn the legitimate results of the election of their state by declaring him the winner or delaying state certification of their respective electors due to phantom concerns of election fraud. The best example of this being the recorded call with the Georgia Secretary of State, during which Trump asked that Raffensberger “find” Trump the exact number of votes he needed to win. 3. Persistently attempting to convince and coerce Vice President Pence to declare him the rightful winner or to turn the issue over to the Republican House of Representatives, which he hoped would overturn the legitimate results of the election. 4. Seeking to delay the certification on January 6th by instigating a mass protest and a riot. (His speech alone would not be criminal, as it does not fit the legal definition of incitement. However, it was part of his larger effort to delay the certification and overturn the election results). 5. Communicating with Republican Congressman and Senators on January 6th and prior to that day to convince them to delay and obstruct the certification process, and devising a plan with them to do so. 6. Sitting on his hands for several hours while his supporters ransacked the Capitol and looked to find and kill Pelosi, Pence and others. 7. Pressuring the Justice Department to falsely announce that it had found election fraud, and attempting to install a new acting attorney general who had drafted a letter falsely asserting such election fraud had been found, in an attempt to persuade the Georgia legislature to convene and reconsider its Biden electoral votes. 8. Conspiring to have his swing-state electors cast fake electoral votes, and pressuring Pence to use those votes as an excuse to throw out Biden's electoral votes in order to overturn the 2020 election.
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