Emails Show Trump WH Coordinated Fake Electors Plot

The New York Times reports:

In emails reviewed by The New York Times and authenticated by people who had worked with the Trump campaign at the time, one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word “fake” to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome.

The emails show that participants in the discussions reported details of their activities to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff. Around the same time, according to the House committee investigating Jan. 6, Mr. Meadows emailed another campaign adviser saying, “We just need to have someone coordinating the electors for states.”

Read the full article.

Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails offer an inside look at the desperate and often slapdash effort by Donald Trump’s allies to reverse his election defeat in 2020 and promote “fake” electors. https://t.co/j2wgkI8kHi

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 26, 2022

‘A gift to prosecutors’: New emails show how Trump aides coordinated ‘desperate’ fake electors scheme https://t.co/dkYAW2Pi3k

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 26, 2022