Wisconsin Fake Elector: I Was “Tricked” Into Signing

The Hill reports:

The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Sunday he was “tricked” into signing documents alleging former President Trump won the 2020 election as part of the state’s “fake elector” scheme.

Andrew Hitt told Anderson Cooper in a “60 Minutes” interview that he was advised by the state GOP’s legal counsel to sign the documents as a contingency, in case the Trump campaign’s legal case against Wisconsin’s election integrity succeeded.

Hitt said he “wasn’t comfortable with” Trump campaign attempts to toss out votes in Wisconsin, and that he didn’t believe the legal claims of widespread fraud. “We got specific advice from our lawyers that these documents were meaningless, unless a court said they had meaning,” he said.

Read the full article. In a “60 Minutes” excerpt released before last night’s show, Hitt also said that he feared violence from the cult. Hitt and Wisconsin’s other fake electors have not yet been charged.

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