The circumstances that led Trump to announce his 'stop the steal' rally were just extremely embarrassing on a human level.
• From there, this group was able to secure an unscheduled meeting with then-President Trump. When White House counsel Pat Cipollone and White House attorney Eric Herschmann learned that this was taking place, they rushed to the Oval Office out of concern that Powell et. al would—to put it politely—provide the president with legal advice regarding 2020 election fraud that was not justified by the available evidence and could put him at risk of prosecution.
• At the meeting, Powell urged Trump to issue an executive order directing the U.S. military to seize some unnamed number of state voting machines and appoint her as a “special counsel” to supervise a process by which the machines would supposedly be used to prove that fraud had taken place.• Trump announced that he was, in fact, “naming” Powell as special counsel and granting her a security clearance, a declaration which Cipollone and Herschmann seem to have simply ignored.
•Flynn, according to Herschmann, produced a map purporting to show connections between electronic devices across the world—including•Giuliani, according to Giuliani, told Cipollone and Herschmann and one of their unnammed colleagues that they were “a bunch of pussies.” • Flynn, according to Herschmann, told Herschmann he was “a quitter,” after which Herschmann, according to Herschmann, told Flynn to either come to his side of the room to physically fight or “sit your fucking ass back down.” • At one point, chief of staff Mark Meadows’ aide Cassidy Hutchinson sent a text describing the scene in the West Wing as “UNHINGED.” It noted that staffers outside the Oval Office had begun drinking alcohol.
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