If you haven't read this, you should.

"There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs...the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans." https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
“It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

"In a way, Trump was right."
"The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort..."
The blatant "in your face" misframing is truly astonishing:

"They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it."

"An extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted."
This is not "Fortifying"

"They got states to change voting systems & laws & helped secure hundreds of millions in public & private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers & got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time."
Norm Eisen, mentioned several times, had an earlier role.

He was a co-author of two Brookings Reports.

1) “Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump,” authored by Barry Berke, Noah Bookbinder, and Norman Eisen, on Oct. 10, 2017.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/presidential-obstruction-of-justice-the-case-of-donald-j-trump-final.pdf
They followed up with a 177-page second edition on Aug. 22, 2018, which also came with a lengthy appendix.

2-12-19: Nadler announced that Berke and Eisen, had been retained on a consulting basis as special oversight counsels in the impeachment hearings.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GS_82218_Obstruction_2nd-edition.pdf
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