Jack Smith digs in. January 6 Committee closes out.

I realize I’m taxing your patience and memory here, but stick with me, please.  Do you remember seeing that security video of a dozen or so well-dressed, white, largely middle-aged people being turned away from the Michigan State Capitol building?  An armed state policeman was standing in what looked to be a back door, physically blocking the group from entering the building.  It was taken on December 14, 2020.  The group was attempting to get into the Michigan State Capitol so they could sign phony certificates appointing them as electors for Donald Trump.  They needed to sign the certificates inside the building to comply with a Michigan state law.  The state policeman politely asked them if they had an appointment with anyone inside the building, and when they answered no, he sent them on their way.

Why would the group of phony electors attempt to enter the Capitol by a rear entrance?  Well, it could have been because the real Michigan electors, all of them pledged to Joe Biden, who had won the state of Michigan in the presidential election, were having the official meeting of electors in the office of the Michigan Secretary of State and signing their official ballots so they could be transmitted to the National Archives, and from there to the President of the Senate, where they could be counted when the electoral college vote was certified on January 6.

It was a backdoor scam that literally tried to go through a backdoor as part of a larger attempt by Donald Trump to have phony electors appointed from the seven battleground states he lost -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.