I can see the "con", although, not being a conman, I can't explain it exactly. I think that is because it is structured like how we think of a terrorist cell. Very few know it all and all of it is compartmentalized. There are lies and assumptions, that are presented by those with more power, higher up, that has been taken as fact by underlings. Hungry for power, Jim Jordon seems especially susceptible to this kind of 'loose' organizational structure.
Its like one of those apprentice episodes. Applied Chaos Theory.
I see some assumptions by the actors and how they may have been played, as they played their part in the master plot. Nobody in the Plot knows what is true, only that 'everything is possible". Ginni Thomas introduces Eastman to Meadows. Ginni tells Meadows that tfg has the full backing of the Supreme Court, this could be only a little bit true. But it does keep the ball moving. Meadows brags to the tfg what Ginni told him. Meadows, exhausted, has some doubt, but presents it as a fact to support Eastman and placate an irrational boss in tfg. TFG gets Flynn back on board boasting he has the court. Flynn thinks, "Well if you have the SC, then I'm all in and I have the skill set, training, and experience to organize it" I think Flynn was running Stone as a cutout to the White Nationalist Groups ( Proud Boys, 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, etc). Rudy is putting pressure on the state legislatures, but so is Lindsay Graham, Ron Johnson, others, and everyone is under the impression the Supreme Court is behind them, and without, the plotter go all in. Just all work your part to get the false electors, get the DOJ to announce "irregularities" and we must "investigate". Get a delay to the Electoral Count Procedure. Everyone pressure Pence. Bring violence if all else fails. Pressure, heat, break Pence. "Just get the delay. That is all we need to get a ruling by SCOTUS."
Crazytown.