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>> WISCONSIN IS ONCE AGAIN IN
THE MIX AS FORMER PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP AND 18 OTHERS ARE
INDICTED ON CHARGES OF
RACKETEERING IN GEORGIA THIS
WEEK.
THE CHARGES ARE THE RESULT OF
TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN THE
RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION,
CULMINATING IN THE JANUARY 246 h
INSURRECTION AT THE U.S.
CAPITOL.
WHILE EFFORTS ARE ON TRUMP'S
EFFORTS TO FLIP GEORGIA'S VOTES,
THE INDICTMENT REFERS TO A
SIMILAR PLAN IN THIS STATE.
"HERE AND NOW" SENIOR POLITICAL
REPORTER, ZAC SCHULTZ, EXPLAINS
WHILE NO ONE FROM WISCONSIN WAS
INDICTED, A COUPLE OF PROMINENT
STATE REPUBLICANS SHOW UP IN THE
EVIDENCE.
>> THE INDICTMENT COMES FROM THE
FULTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR IN
GEORGIA, BUT IT DOESN'T TAKE
LONG FOR WISCONSIN TO ENTER THE
PICTURE.
THE CHARGING DOCUMENT ALLEGES A
CONSPIRACY HATCHED BY DONALD
TRUMP AND HIS ASSOCIATES,
REFERRED TO AS THE ENTERPRISE IN
DOCUMENTS, THE PLAN WAS TO HAVE
REPUBLICANS IN KEY BATTLEGROUND
STATES SIGN UP AS A SLATE OF
FALSE ELECTORS TO DELAY THE
CERTIFICATION OF JOE BIDEN AS
PRESIDENT.
THE PROSECUTOR SAYS ACTS 39 AND
46 OF THE CONSPIRACY INVOLVED
JIM TROUPIS, A PROMINENT
WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN LAWYER IN A
MEMO URGING HIM TO GET A SLATE
OF FALSE ELECTORS TO MEET IN
WISCONSIN ON DECEMBER 14th,
2020.
ACTS 50 AND 64 INVOLVE MEMOS IN
A MEETING WITH BRIAN SCHIMMING,
THE CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN.
THE DOCUMENTS SAY SCHIMMING WAS
GIVEN PROPOSED LANGUAGE FOR THE
FALSE ELECTOR DOCUMENTS, AND
DURING A MEETING TWO DAYS BEFORE
THE REAL ELECTORS MET, SCHIMMING
WAS ON A PHONECALL WITH TRUMP
LAWYER AND CO-DEFENDANT, RUDY
GIULIANI, WHERE HE WAS TOLD TO
KEEP NEWS OF THE FALSE ELECTORS
AWAY FROM THE MEDIA.
SCHIMMING DID NOT ANSWER
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GEORGIA
INDICTMENT DURING A PRESS CALL
THIS WEEK, BUT ISSUED A
STATEMENT THAT READ, "AS STATED
PREVIOUSLY, REPUBLICAN ELECTORS
MET IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE
STATUTORY GUIDELINES ON THE
ADVICE OF ATTORNEYS AND WITH
PRECEDENT TO PRESERVE ALL LEGAL
OPTIONS STILL PENDING BEFORE THE
COURTS.
HAD THE COURTS RULED
DIFFERENTLY, THE ALTERNATE
ELECTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN
NEEDED."
HOWEVER, ACT 107 OF THE
CONSPIRACY SAYS THE FALSE
ELECTORS WERE NOT FOR THE COURTS
BUT FOR JANUARY 6th.
IT SAYS REPUBLICANS WERE TO
CONTEST THE COUNTING OF
ELECTORAL VOTES DURING THE JOINT
SESSION OF CONGRESS.
THEN VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE
WAS NOT TO OPEN VOTES FROM
WISCONSIN AND FIVE OTHER STATES,
DECLARE THE ELECTOR VOTES IN
DISPUTE AND ALLOW THE FALSE
ELECTORS TO SWING THE ELECTION
TO TRUMP.
TWO WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS,
CONGRESSMAN TOM TIFFANIE AND
SCOTT FITZGERALD, DID OBJECT TO
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTES
FROM TWO OTHER STATES, BUT NOT
WISCONSIN.
A TOP AIDE FOR WISCONSIN
REPUBLICAN SENATOR RON JOHNSON
TRIED TO COORDINATE A MEETING
WITH VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO
HAND OVER WISCONSIN'S SLATE OF
FALSE ELECTORS, BUT PENCE'S
STAFF SAID NO.
THE COUNT WAS STOPPED DURING THE
INSURRECTION, BUT ULTIMATELY THE
CORRECT VOTES WERE COUNTED AND
JOE BIDEN BECAME PRESIDENT.
REPORTING FROM MADISON, I'M ZAC