CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Warns Fringe Far-Right Groups Have a ‘Step-By-Step Plan’ to Disrupt Certification Process if Trump Loses
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan warned the fringe groups who support former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement already have a “step-by-step plan” to disrupt the certification process on January 6th should Vice President Kamala Harris win the election.
Speaking to host Kaitlan Collins on Sunday, O’Sullivan discussed his coverage of Trump supporters. Collins noted that some people believe that “election deniers” are the “fringe or the crazies” but that many see themselves as “patriots” who would deny the election “are willing to do something that is illegal.”
Four weeks before the 2020 election I was in a small conference room in Arizona, and it was the height of Covid, but there was a QAnon convention going on. All of these folks saying Trump was going to win in a landslide and the only way it will not happen is if it was stolen. And if it does get stolen we will have to do something about it.
From that room alone I think at least two of the people there went to prison for January 6th, one of whom was Jacob Chansley — now known as the QAnon Shaman.
That sort of thinking, four years on, it is not just in these QAnon bases any more, right? You hear Trump speaking to it. And, so many of the people that I’ve spoken to say: ‘Look, the battle for us, we think think we have the election in the bag. The battle for us begins at the certification process.’
O’Sullivan paused to play back a clip from someone he called a “MAGA extremist” who has a “big following” told him, regarding the election outcome: “It all depends on what they end up doing and the plan and strategy for every single component of it and then January 6 is going to be pretty fun.”
The journalist, coming back in to comment said: “He is talking about January 6th, 2025, which, by the way, congress certification of the results happens to fall on January 6 again this year. So, they’re very openly speaking about this process and they have a step by-step-plan.”
Detailing where the pressure might come, co-panelist New York Times writer Jim Rutenburg said: “You have the commissioners who can elect not to certify again, not legal, they can do it. A lot of pressure on them at board meetings.”
He added: “What I’m seeing and what Donie is seeing in these meetings, local meetings, that are about sewers and water issues and street naming, those have become fora for real [MAGA] pressure on these commissioners that when the time comes to certify the vote, if we think it’s fraudulent, we will put pressure on you not to do it.”
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