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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>'Barely concealed bloodlust': Claremont Institute laid out detailed plan for using cops to overturn Trump’s election loss</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Travis Gettys and Raw Story November 08, 2021</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">   </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The right-wing Claremont Institute published a report in mid-October 2020 that gamed out a scenario where Donald Trump would remain in office through an alliance between law enforcement and militant extremists.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The report was prepared by attorney John Eastman, who authored a memo laying out another strategy for keeping Trump in office, and former Trump deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland, as well as Kevin Roberts, then-executive director of the <b>Texas Public Policy Foundation</b>, alt-right figure Jeff Giesea and right-wing blogger Charles Haywood,</span> reported The Bulwark.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Despite the authors' pretensions to scholarship and rigor — 'for a simulation to be valuable, the other side gets a vote and actions must be based in realism' — the final document is a frenzied and paranoid piece of work, revealing of the anxieties and aspirations of the authoritarian right,"</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> writes columnist Christian Vanderbrouk. "Practically, the report is an instruction manual for how Trump partisans at all levels of government — aided by </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">citizen 'posses' of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers — could, quite literally, round up opposition activists, kill their leaders, and install Donald Trump for a second term in office."</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Most of the predictions in the report, titled "79 Days to Inauguration," did not come to fruition, such as the authors' belief that some states' voting results would be fatally tainted by cyber attacks and suspicious fires, and left-wing mobs did not converge on Washington, D.C., to incite violence, and police did not execute antifa/Black Lives Matter leaders as part of a federal operation.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"A barely concealed bloodlust runs through the report," Vanderbrouk writes. "This isn't a serious wargame or a policy study so much as a bowdlerized retelling of The Turner Diaries."</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report was produced in response to the bipartisan Transition Integrity Project's (TIP) exercise on "Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition," which considered the prospect of Trump refusing to concede an election loss and made recommendations for avoiding a crisis -- which seems to be the opposite intent of the Claremont Institute's exercise.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"To the extent that the Claremont-TPPF report offers recommendations, they are mostly focused on how to emerge victorious from the chaos, including preparation 'for destructive urban unrest [with] potential targets includ[ing] ballot counting facilities, government buildings, especially state capitols and city halls, as well as television and radio studios,'</b>" Vanderbrouk writes<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">. "The Claremont task force seems either resigned to—or perhaps energized by—the view that 'prudent steps are likely to be spun as preparations for a military takeover or coup and may result in negative consequences either way.'"</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Either way. It's as if they're steering into the violence instead of trying to avoid it," he adds. "The message is clear:<b> do whatever it takes to crush your opponents and all will be forgiven in the second Trump term."</b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref 1</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.</font>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious

fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately

throwing the election to Congress.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The nation’s capital is overwhelmed by riots organized by left-wing radicals.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A Republican member of Congress is attacked and critically injured in

the violence, potentially depriving Donald Trump of the decisive vote.</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, the representative heroically insists on being taken to the

House floor. “With IVs and blood transfusions being administered, the

member casts the deciding vote, giving Trump 26 state delegations and

the needed majority.”</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is the grisly climax of a report published in mid-October 2020

by the Claremont Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF)

called “<a href="https://www.claremont.org/79daysreport.pdf">79 Days to Inauguration</a>,”

prepared by “Constitutional scholars, along with experts in election

law, foreign affairs, law enforcement, and media . . . coordinated by a

retired military officer experienced in running hundreds of wargames.”</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among these luminaries were figures such as <b>John Eastman</b>—lawyer for Donald Trump and author of a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-memo/index.html">memo</a>

advising Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally block certification

of Joe Biden’s win in order to buy time for GOP-controlled state

legislatures to send competing slates of electors—and K.T. McFarland,

who served as deputy national security advisor under Michael Flynn in

the Trump White House.</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other participants include Kevin Roberts, then-executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (soon to be <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/14/heritage-foundation-announces-dc-outsider-kevin-roberts-as-next-president/">head of the Heritage Foundation</a>), Jeff Giesea, “<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48">a [Peter] Thiel protégé and secret funder of alt-right causes</a>,” and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Charles Haywood, a fringe blogger who <a href="https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/09/10/what-to-do-when-caesar-comes/">anxiously awaits</a> an American “Caesar, authoritarian reconstructor of our institutions.”</span></span></font></p>

<figure id="attachment_77804" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-77804" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="wp-image-77804 size-large" src="https://www.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-3.28.08-PM-1024x734.png" alt="" width="1024" height="734" /></font><figcaption id="caption-attachment-77804" class="wp-caption-text"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The distinguished wargamers.</font></figcaption></figure>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet despite the authors’ pretensions to scholarship and rigor—“for a

simulation to be valuable, the other side gets a vote and actions must

be based in realism”— the final document is a frenzied and paranoid

piece of work, revealing of the anxieties and aspirations of the

authoritarian right.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Practically, the report is an instruction manual for how Trump

partisans at all levels of government—aided by citizen “posses” of Proud

Boys and Oath Keepers—could, quite literally, round up opposition

activists, kill their leaders, and install Donald Trump for a second

term in office.</font></p>

When Trump refused to accept the outcome of the election, he cooked up a scheme…

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="drop-cap drop-cap--small">T</span>he scenario begins

late on Election Night. The networks have declared Joe Biden the winner,

his campaign having upset Trump in the state of Texas. The call is

withdrawn moments later, following reports of a cyberattack involving

the state’s tabulation system. As it becomes clear there will be no

definitive winner on Election Night, attention shifts to a few

battleground states with large numbers of outstanding ballots.</font></p>

<blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Riots break out in more than a dozen major cities . . .

14 law enforcement officers are known to have been shot, with one

confirmed death. There are unconfirmed reports of a car bombing of a

police precinct building in Philadelphia.</font></p></blockquote>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The violence, as imagined by Claremont and TPPF, overwhelms police and fire officials.</font></p>

<blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Police recede to a defensive posture around their

precincts, it is unsafe to maneuver police vehicles down the streets and

responding to calls for service, even emergency calls, is suspended.

Fire departments are unable to approach buildings on fire without police

escorts, which are not happening.</font></p></blockquote>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The next day, the federal government announces Operation Spearfish, targeting</font></p>

<blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leaders and agitators within the groups associated with BLM, Antifa, Boogaloo, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/louisiana-gun-discharge-demonstration-trayford-pellerin-death/index.html">NFAC</a>

. . . with over one thousand arrest warrants issued using federal and

state statutes from RICO to disorderly conduct… The decision to obtain

arrest warrants even for the barest minimum of probable cause on the

lowest of charges is meant to remove the players from the picture, at

least temporarily. Social media sources and other intelligence sources

were used to find any instances of incitement to violence, threats, or

other criminal activity that met federal or local statutes and act on

them.</font></p></blockquote>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remember, this narrative is the result of a role-playing exercise in

which the participants imagined themselves as key decision-makers in the

federal government. The actions described, therefore, might be best

understood as a combination of group therapy and suggestions for how

they believe the federal government and law enforcement should behave in

a moment of constitutional crisis.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the report is revealing. Some of it is sad. Some of it is

darkly funny. For instance, the authors’ recommendation for mass,

politically motivated arrests “to remove the players from the picture”

sits oddly next to the right’s outraged reaction to the prosecution of

Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s more irony in how the task force imagines right-wing gangs

would operate during such a period: with quiet discipline and in

cooperation with law enforcement.</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span></font><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A lack of social media activity and overt action by the

rioting by members of the <b>Proud Boys</b> draws the attention of law

enforcement officials suspecting they may be operating covertly on the

ground in several major urban rioting areas, but their exact involvement

is unknown. <b>Reports of militias moving into suburban areas is being

monitored. Several groups affiliated with the Three Percenters and Oath

Keepers have openly offered to assist law enforcement in putting down

the violence via social media, touting significant current and retired

law enforcement and military membership.</b></span></font></p></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Which is . . . <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/19/capitol-riot-social-media/">not how the Trumpist forces behaved</a> during the actual crisis:...</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===
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