Trump's chief of staff was neck deep in fake electors scheme

Talking Points Memo brings us a mini-scoop gleaned from the defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani by two victims of his election hoaxes. We now know what Giuliani and Bernard Kerik thought it would really take to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

Specifically, they thought it would take $5-$8 million dollars, payable to them. That's pretty cheap for a plan to overthrow the elected United States government, but even then it's unclear how the money would have been spent. The request for cash once again highlights the bizarre nature of the whole Giuliani-Kerik grift, because it wasn't the Trump campaign or the Republican National Committee that Kerik was coming to with this request for funding. In a now-released email, Kerik was asking White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for the cash.