"Betrayed is an understatement": Fake elector throws Trump team under the bus as he spills the beans
Source: Salon
"Betrayed is an understatement": Fake elector throws Trump team under the bus as he spills the beans
James Renner was a last-minute replacement in the fake elector scheme. Now he's cooperating with the state AG
By GABRIELLA FERRIGINE
News Fellow
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 27, 2023 12:46PM (EST)
A Michigan Republican who served as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election expressed remorse for partaking in the scheme, per a recording of the elector’s interview with the state attorney general’s office that was obtained by The New York Times.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped criminal charges against 77-year-old James Renner after he agreed to cooperate. Renner is the only one of 16 fake electors charged to have reached an agreement with Nessel’s office. Thus far, Nessel has only charged the electors but has stated that her investigation is ongoing.
“I can’t overemphasize how once I read the information in the J6 transcripts how upset I was that the legitimate process had not been followed,” Renner said in the interview. “I felt that I had been walked into a situation that I shouldn’t have ever been involved in.”
The Times reported that Renner was an eleventh-hour substitution in December of 2020 for two electors who had dropped out of the plot. Slates of fake electors have already been charged in several states, including Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada. Separate probes are also underway in Arizona and New Mexico.
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