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How The Fake Electors Scheme Could Give The DOJ A Way Into Trumpworld
Link to tweet
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-the-fake-electors-scheme-could-give-the-doj-a-way-into-trumpworld
Federal prosecutors have made high-profile moves in the past several weeks aimed at a specific aspect of Trump’s effort to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
It’s the alternate electors, the effort to have states that Biden won vote for Trump in the Electoral College by swearing in false delegates from each state. Now, DOJ is running a high-profile investigation of the effort, issuing subpoenas to GOP activists involved in the plot.
The scheme involved dozens of Trump-aligned activists, who signed and submitted certificates to the federal government purporting to be the real electors for their states.
The problem is that, in the seven states in which the Trump electors claimed to have been appointed, Trump did not win. Biden won, and the state legislatures convened to approve his win.
The fake electors were, however, intended to play a crucial role on Jan. 6: in one version of a Trumpworld plan, Congress was supposed to vote to certify the fake, pro-Trump electors, and not Biden’s.
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