Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague: Inside Trump's Attempted Election Steal

The story of January 6, 2021 is one that will go down in the history books. In the 64 days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states-Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-Trump’s supporters claimed widespread voter fraud. In The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Working with a team of researchers and reporters, Bowden and Teague uncover never-before-told accounts from the election officials fighting to do their jobs amid outlandish claims and threats to themselves, their colleagues and their families. They provide an engaging, in-depth report on what happened during those crucial nine weeks and a portrait of the heroic individuals who did their duty and stood firm against the unprecedented, sustained attack on our election system to ensure that every legal vote was counted and the will of the people prevailed.
Join us as Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague discuss their research and offer their thoughts and commentary on the events leading up to January 6.
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Bowden photo by Pascal Perich; Teague photo by Akasha Rabut.
JANUARY 11, 2022
SPEAKERS
Mark Bowden
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic; Co-author, The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
Matthew Teague
Contributor, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and Esquire; Executive Producer, "Our Friend"; Co-author, The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
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[@grimmertwin2148]

3 suggestions 1. This book become part of the American school curriculum 2. Pence is anything but a hero. He's position re certifying the votes is purely ceremonial. It's inconsequential. He has no real authority here. I'd be more worried about all the crazy stuff he supported Trump on. He's another Christian with no real moral compass. He only has political expediency as a goal. 3. Trump won't be charged or do time for any of this. Why? Who protects him, who engineered his whole political campaign and what's the role of the DOJ in all this? The DOJ has been protecting Trump and his ilk since Epstein became his friend, enabler and abetted. Homeland security used to monitor their flights on the Lolita Express while trafficking and abusing underage Americans. Why was law enforcement stood down from the Capitol on 6th Jan Read Julie K Brown's book The Perversion of Justice the secrets Jeffrey Epstein took to the grave I'll say that again Perversion of Justice Steal an election Not too difficult It came close The damage is irreversible All this stuff about voter suppression - how long has this been going on? And you're worried about your democracy now! So was JFK, MLK and RFK The only people to take down the Republican party will be Republicans. They've been duping America with less votes for decades. The democrats are weak or lazy or complicit Watch Desantis and Trump eat each other and destroy the Republican Party. Follow the Maxwell case. It's the same people. Not the Epstein 8. It's the ones above them The right to be armed? How out of date is that. We've updated our Constitution. And why did American money fund gain of function experiments in China?

[@leealexander3507]

Although I don't spend my time on right wing message boards something' Trump said on Twitter caused me to have a look at a few of them. Because of that I wasn't the least bit surprised by Jan 6 but I was still horrified. The worst of it is I don't think it's over.

[@Anubis-hm7ro]

Excellent analysis

[@LiberalinOregon]

Interested video, thanks

[@Anubis-hm7ro]

Thank you

[@leealexander3507]

Although I strongly disagree politically with the people who saved our election they have my respect because they put country over themselves as well as before their party in spite of the fact that they had to know Trump would send his brown shirts after them as well as their families. We might disagree but I respect their courage and integrity.

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