Charlie Kirk defends Trump’s fake elector scheme as a “publicity stunt” – By Media Matters Writers (Media Matters) / Aug 2, 2023
Kirk: “If you’re trying to overthrow the government, who tweets about it? … It was obviously a publicity stunt.”
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): This is the largest part of the indictment. If you read through the indictment it says in great detail that the core of it is the co-conspirators putting together alternate electors. Which by the way, alternate electors had legal precedent of being selected and chosen in the Kennedy/Nixon 1960 election. So they go after senior citizens in Michigan, first through the Michigan Attorney General – a totally captured state by the way; Michigan is totally captured, it’s really sad.
And then they’re able to write this indictment and say, aha, see, they worked in tandem together to overthrow the government. So they were trying to overthrow the government by sending in alternate electors? How does that work exactly? The Vice President could have sent it back to the states and the judge in 1960, who selected the alternate electors in the Hawaii controversy of Kennedy and Nixon, said explicitly if you had not had sent those electors it could not have been chosen. The judge said that in 1960. The 1960 election. If you had not had sent them, we would not have been able to select them.
