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Nevilledog

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Thu Jan 20, 2022, 05:19 PM Jan 2022

Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot



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Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in Dec. 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from 7 states Trump lost, per 3 sources.

Jan. 6 committee investigating this, including Giuliani's role.

New w/ @MarshallCohen & @merica.

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Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states
Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct...
2:09 PM · Jan 20, 2022


https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html

Washington (CNN)Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.

The sources said members of former President Donald Trump's campaign team were far more involved than previously known in the plan, a core tenet of the broader plot to overturn President Joe Biden's victory when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6.

Giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts-and-bolts of the process on a state-by-state level, the sources told CNN. One source said there were multiple planning calls between Trump campaign officials and GOP state operatives, and that Giuliani participated in at least one call. The source also said the Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet on December 14, 2020, and circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the National Archives.

Trump and some of his top advisers publicly encouraged the "alternate electors" scheme in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico. But behind the scenes, Giuliani and Trump campaign officials actively choreographed the process, the sources said.

One fake elector from Michigan boasted at a recent event hosted by a local Republican organization that the Trump campaign directed the entire operation.

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Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2022 OP
This is on the CNN front page now senseandsensibility Jan 2022 #1
Shocking! demmiblue Jan 2022 #2

senseandsensibility

(16,989 posts)
1. This is on the CNN front page now
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 05:41 PM
Jan 2022

So maybe they get off their Biden bashing for a few minutes to cover it on air. You never know.

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