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BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The 2020 Election Indictment Read by Ali Velshi

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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The Pennsylvania Election Code and Constitution

On January 6, 2021, the defendant publicly repeated his knowingly false claim regarding an illicit dump of more than a hundred thousand ballots in Detroit. On December 4, after four Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania legislature issued a public statement that the general assembly lacked the authority to overturn the popular vote and appoint its own slate of electors, the defendant retweeted a post labeling the legislators cowards. In November 29, 2020, a recount in Wisconsin that the defendant's campaign had petitioned and paid for did not change the election result. And in fact, increased the defendant's margin of defeat.

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