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I’m Writing a Book About January 6th.
“Very few conspiracies survive contact with reality.” John LeCarré, The Secret Pilgrim.
Having now glanced through more than 900 pages of the J6 Select Committee Final Report, along with as many or more pages containing transcriptions of individuals interviewed by the Committee, along with additional documentation posted on the website which contains the entire record of the Committee’s efforts, I have decided to write a little book about J6, but it will be a study of the planning which led up to the legal attempts to send fake electors and fake electoral ballots to D.C. to be counted and certified by the Senate on that most auspicious day.
As of this past June, cases involving fake electors have been opened in five states: Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin. Together, these cases have named 94 persons who have been indicted, along with unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators in several cases, although the Arizona case, with 6 named defendants, may Have been submitted to the wrong venue, and will have to be re-submitted again.
Along with these cases, there is the Federal indictment of Donald Trump for planning and possibly directing the actual January 6th assault on the Capitol itself, a case which also has six other individuals mentioned as unnamed co-conspirators, all of whom it is assumed, have also been indicted in…