Trump's Lawyers Are Ready to Subvert the 2024 Election -- But They Don't Want to Go to Jail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Republicans Tell Trump That Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Blowing ItWith Election Day 2024 just over a week away, both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump camps are anticipating a historically close outcome, with the winner being decided by a small number of votes in a handful of states.
42% : Though Trump and Republicans could conceivably win the election outright, the former president isn't willing to leave it up to chance.
41% : In the aftermath of Joe Biden's clear victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential contest, the then-president and conservative figures embarked on a months-long crusade to overturn the election results -- in an effort that culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
40% : According to two sources familiar with the matter, within the past several months, Trump has indeed been asking close confidants about Dominion machines and other common American voting tech, in the context of the bitterly fought 2024 race.
36% : "My biggest mistake was assuming everyone around me was operating in the same good faith and professionalism as I was," Jenna Ellis, a former senior legal adviser to Trump who faced charges and legal consequences stemming from the former president's post-2020-election efforts, tells Rolling Stone.
26% : He and his allies have spent years laying the groundwork, state by state, to corrupt the 2024 election and to make it easier for Trump to steal, if it's close and he's losing.
23% : One such attorney says they recently advised lawyers and other Trumpists working on the effort in Pennsylvania -- perhaps the most crucial of the swing states, and where Harris and Trump are running neck-and-neck -- not to put anything "in writing" that would, if publicly revealed, risk making it look like the legal team didn't believe the merits of any of their, or Trump's, claims or legal arguments.
22% : In the indictments of Trump and his associates, prosecutors have consistently painted a portrait of the then-president and his allies having corrupt intent -- including in the notoriously scandalous fake-electors plot -- because there was apparently ample evidence they knew what they were doing was based on lies, but did it anyway.
21% : "On the other side of the aisle, Biden and the Democratic Party elite spent years building out a legal "superstructure" (which Vice President Harris inherited) across the country, and have war-gamed an array of nightmare scenarios in which Trump would again try to steal an American election in a blisteringly close race.
19% : In the years that followed, Trump and his allies cemented into Republican Party orthodoxy the anti-democratic lies and conspiracy theories that fueled his election-denial effort.
19% : The false idea, pushed by then-President Trump and many Republican figures, that Dominion Voting Systems machines played a key role in rigging the 2020 election against Trump quickly became one of the most consequential far-right conspiracy theories of that entire election.
13% : As Rolling Stone recently reported, Trump is already cynically planning to declare, even as soon as on Election Night, that the election is being "rigged" against him by citing a slower vote count in certain states -- a slow count of mail-in ballots that Trump and other Republicans worked to ensure would happen this year.
12% : Still, the sprawling Trump-led operation to nullify his 2020 loss resulted in various lawsuits, Trump's record-setting second impeachment by the U.S. House, a high-profile congressional probe, and state and federal investigations that brought criminal charges against a host of MAGAland luminaries including Trump himself.
7% : Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that Trump has been privately speaking again with Kurt Olsen, an attorney who aided Trump in his attempt to steal the 2020 election.

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