Priebus is the archetypical Establishment player in Washington, although he's one of the few which loyally stood with Trump throughout the campaign and carried through on his pledge to help the Republican nominee with organizational and other "back-end" support. Most importantly, he's the Chairman of the Republican National Committee and "knows how to get things done" in the Old System. This is important for Trump because of the global stakes that are at play if The Establishment Republicans in Congress are co-opted by the Clintonian Counter-Revolution and decide to throw the whole country into political deadlock by refusing to go along with any of the President's legislative proposals. No one should forget that although the Republicans control both houses of Congress, this doesn't mean that they have to necessarily do everything that Trump wants them to.

The extraordinary lies that are being perpetrated by the media and by members of the US government have as their obvious purpose the prevention of a Donald Trump presidency ... for which there is not a shred of evidence. Indeed, there is massive real evidence to the contrary. [T]he military/security complex has become more powerful than the American people and is demonstrating its power by overturning a presidential election...based on if they expect the coup to succeed by bribing electors to vote differently than their states.

The cost of the bribes is miniscule compared to the wealth and income streams that a trillion dollar annual budget provides to the military/security complex. The fake news of a Putin/Trump election-stealing plot generated by unsupported allegations of present and former members of US intelligence, the lame-duck President Obama, and the presstitute media provide the cover for electors to break with precedent "in order to save America from a Russian stooge."

The CIA-controlled European media, the politicians in Washington's European vassal states, NATO officials, and the brainwashed European peoples will support the coup against Trump.

The only ones speaking against the coup are the voters who elected Trump—all of whom are alleged to have been deceived by Russian fake news— the Russian government, and the 200 websites falsely described by the Washington Post and the secret organization PropOrNot as Russian agents. In other words, those objecting to the coup are the ones described by the coup leaders as those who made the coup necessary.

[T]he Electoral College meets to cast the ballots for president. There is a well organized effort to disrupt this normally routine procedure. Based on CIA lies spread over the country by the presstitutes, 62 electors have requested a CIA briefing prior to the vote on Russian interference in the election. As there is no formal CIA report and no evidence in support of the allegations, the briefing would consist of the allegations.

This effort, which presents a grave and continual threat to the Constitution, to domestic tranquility, and to international stability, is said in a nationwide media ad campaign to be necessary in order to block Trump from presenting "a grave and continual threat to the Constitution, to the domestic tranquility, and to international stability."

If the effort tomorrow fails, President Obama has put in motion a second shot at blocking Trump's inauguration with his order to the CIA to produce a report on Russian election meddling prior to January 20. This report could be used to delay the inauguration or to convey to the American public and peoples abroad so many doubts that Trump's effectiveness as a leader would be undermined.

[T]he constant assaults on Trump can result in his assassination by a "lone nut" patriot incensed over having in office a president declared by the New York Times to be a Putin stooge and useful idiot for the Russians. This is the newspaper of record's characterization of the president chosen by the American people.

The military/security oligarchs want the immense budgets and power that comes from positioning Russia as a dire threat. Even if Trump survives the CIA's challenge to his election, his cabinet appointees will have to survive confirmation fights and, if they do, ongoing challenges to their efforts to change policies from policies that favor oligarchs enriched by war to policies that favor oligarchs enriched by peace.

Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day. Copies of the Federalist Papers and other books urging political courage are being mailed to their homes. They are even getting phone calls in the middle of the night.

Such has been the life of Pennsylvania's 20 electors for President-elect Donald Trump since the Nov. 8 election.

On Monday, they will travel to the state Capitol to cast their votes to assign Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes to Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence during what has, in the past, been a ceremonial and largely unnoticed event.

Not this year.

This time around, the electors will be greeted by organized protests, urging them to assign Pennsylvania's electoral votes to anyone but Trump.

One elector, Ash Khare, said he and each of the 19 others have been assigned a plainclothes state police trooper for protection.

"I'm a big boy," said Khare, an India-born engineer and a longtime Republican from Warren County, who estimates he receives 3,000 to 5,000 emails, letters, and phone calls a day from as far away as France, Germany, and Australia. "But this is stupid. Nobody is standing up and telling these people, 'Enough, knock it off.' "

Pennsylvania is not among those states that require its electors to vote for the candidate who won the state. This year, that was Trump, who became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania in nearly three decades.

Nonetheless, electors are usually party stalwarts — people handpicked by the presidential nominee and their state parties and expected to remain loyal.
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Richard Stewart, a Cumberland County resident and the state Republican Party's assistant treasurer, said he has received probably more than 60,000 emails and hundreds of letters about his role as an elector.

He described the people contacting him and other electors as "sincere but ill-informed and uneducated with respect to the process."

He has not engaged.

"If Hillary Clinton had won, I certainly wouldn't be calling up her electors saying change your mind," he said. "I know how the system works. They lost. They ought to get over that."

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