Jan 6th: ”You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas”

The January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from
seven states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very
dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing seven sets
of phony electors. What are electors? Those are the people who
actually vote for president of the United States. Look high and low
in the Constitution and you will not find the right to vote in our
Constitution. Rather, the president is picked by the electors and
the electoral college. But there's also an alternative way of
picking presidents, which is using the 12th Amendment. Let me
explain… What happened was, on January 6th, Vice-President Mike
Pence received seven slates of electors, but not the electors who
were voted by the people of the states. These fake slates of
electors were from Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was not the electors for Joe Biden,
who had won those states, rather it was a bunch of GOP operatives,
who fraudulently claimed their states had voted for Trump. These
alternative electors had their own little private electoral college
meetings and they elected Donald Trump for their states, which
would make him president of the United States. You might think,
this is nuts, you can't just get a bunch of people together in a
room and say, I think we'll have Trump again. It's not a joke,
because under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, it's what
happens when there are not enough electors to become president. You
have to win 270 electoral college votes. So what these characters
have done is they provided alternative lists of electors. If those
electors were accepted over the ones that were submitted by the
states themselves, Trump would have been reelected. Now, Bennie
Thompson, the chairman of the January 6th Committee wants to know
who was behind this scheme, because it's a fraud upon the
government. This looks like a crime. Chairman Thompson. I'm going
to give you a hint: Donald Trump. This went straight to the Oval
Office.