Well, there's this:
Hey Pennsylvania, the GOP is trying to replace Bob Casey so they want you to believe thier Mega Millionaire candidate is just like you. pic.twitter.com/YqXf8EKTFg
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) April 25, 2024
And this:
This is Dave McCormick.The Republicans think we’re stupid. They keep trying to trick us with their candidates, and I find it insulting. Latest example, #Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/UqxMwoV3cC
— PoliticsGirl (@IAmPoliticsGirl) April 25, 2024
From The Washington Post:
An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys or aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an announcement by the state attorney general.
Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.
Readers of this blog will recall the Pennsylvania connections to some of the above indicted.
We'll be looking at some of the Pennsylvania mentions in this Arizona Indictment.
Digging through it, I found this:
During a conference call on December 12, 2020, a Pennsylvania attorney expressed concern that the certificate of vote falsely claimed that the Republican electors were the "duly elected and certified electors." He requested adding language to the certificates indicating that the Trump-Pence electors' votes were contingent on being certified the duly elected and qualified electors. (p. 41)
Looking forward to finding out who that "Pennsylvania attorney" was.
After a brief discussion about that contingency, there's this:
Pennsylvania insisted on the language. Unindicted Coconspirator 4 prepared a draft and sent [REDACTED] and Findlay the following email on December 13, 2020:
Mike, here is my suggested language for dealing with the concern raised in the PA conference call about Electors possibly facing legal exposure (at the hands of a partisan AG} if they seem to certify that they are currently the valid Electors.
Easily fixed ....
It strike [sic] me that if inserting these few words is a good idea for PA, it might be worth suggesting to Electors in other states
Pennsylvania attorneys eventually added the following introduction to their elector vote certificates:
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, on the understanding that if, as a result of a final non-appealable Court Order or other proceeding prescribed by law, we are ultimately recognized as being the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Pennsylvania, hereby certify the following ....By December 12, 2020, Unindicted Coconspirator 4 had prepared documents for each state except New Mexico. [REDACTED] asked Unindicted Coconspirator 4 to prepare New Mexico. He did, and included his drafted contingency language as follows, "WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, on the understanding that it might later be determined that we are the duty elected and qualified Electors .... "
Look familiar?
Because that's exactly what happened.
The new part is learning that the idea of the text added to the Pennsylvania and Nevada fake certificates came out of a discussion in Pennsylvania.
AZ Law blog says this about UC4:
Unindicted co-conspirator #4 is a Trump campaign atty who didn't get indicted (like Eastman, Ellis, Giuliani and Bobb), but wrote memos. That is likely Kenneth Chesebro, who had been extensively interviewed by AZ AG's office.
Ok. But, still, who was that "Pennsylvania attorney" mentioned?
So now I am wondering if someone (anyone??) in the Pennsylvania political reporting class will ask State Senator Doug Mastriano (reportedly the WH's "point person" on the Pennsylvania part of Trump's "fake elector" scheme) and/or Allegheny County Counsel-at-Large and chair of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County Sam DeMarco III (one of the signers of the Pennsylvania "fake elector" certificate) if they had any comment on these indictments out of Arizona - seeing that discussions in Pennsylvania got a solid mention in them.
Anyone? Anyone?
At the outer edges, the story of yesterday's GOP primary looks like this:
Donald J. Trump and President Biden scored overwhelming primary victories in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, facing opponents who had long since dropped out of the race.
However, take a look at this:
Wait, what?
How long has it been since Nikki Haley dropped out of the race?
Nearly 7 weeks ago:
Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.
And yet, in Pennsylvania, she still got 1/6th of the vote??
Not only is he on trial in Manhattan, not only does he still owe nearly a half billion dollars in fines from two other cases he lost, but he's lost (if the above numbers are any indication) a sixth of Pennsylvania's republican voters.
That can't be good for him.
Poor guy.
Yes, the orange vulgarity is in a Manhattan courtroom today. Yes, he's multi-indicted, etc.
However the science from NOAA goes on:
March 2024 was the warmest March on record for the globe in NOAA's 175-year record. The March global surface temperature was 1.35°C (2.43°F) above the 20th-century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F). This is 0.01°C ( °F) warmer than the previous March record set in 2016, and the tenth consecutive month of record-high global temperatures. March 2024 marked the 48th consecutive March with global temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average.
And:
The January–March global surface temperature ranked warmest in the 175-year record at 1.35°C (2.43°F) above the 1901-2000 average of 12.3°C (54.1°F). According to NCEI's statistical analysis, there is a 55% chance that 2024 will rank as the warmest year on record and a 99% chance that it will rank in the top five.
And so on.
TRUMP IS BEING READ HIS PARKER WARNING:
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) April 15, 2024
MERCHAN: You have the right to be present during the trial and to assist your attorneys….do you understand?
TRUMP: “Yes."
MERCHAN: If you disrupt the proceedings, you can be excluded from the courtroom and committed to jail based on…
We'll see.
From Judge Marchan's case summary from his letter to counsel regarding jury selection:
The allegations are, in substance, that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, it is alleged that Donald Trump made or caused false business records to hide the true nature of payments made to Michael Cohen, by characterizing them as payment for legal services rendered pursuant to a retainer agreement. The People allege that in fact, the payments were intended to reimburse Michael Cohen for money he paid to Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, in the weeks before the presidential election to prevent her from publicly revealing details about a past sexual encounter with Donald Trump.
Whether he cheated in the 2016 election.
From The NYTimes:
On Monday, Donald J. Trump will go on trial in Manhattan — the first former U.S. president to be criminally prosecuted.
I'll just leave that there.