Some of Arizona's indicted fake electors want your spare change to help with legal bills
Source: USA Today
Published 2:50 p.m. ET May 25, 2024
Six of the fake electors indicted in Arizona are turning to fundraising appeals to help finance their legal defense. Michael and Kelli Ward are the only Arizonans seeking financial support so far. The other four indicted individuals are continuing campaigns they apparently started due to their involvement in other cases related to the 2020 presidential election. All of them have accounts on GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site that also collects prayers for the beneficiaries.
The Wards' attorney, Brad Miller, launched the couple's fundraising campaign in the wake of indictments sought by Attorney General Kris Mayes. As of Friday, the effort had raised $100,000 from 92 donors toward a goal of what appears to be $5.3 million. The target amount is not fully displayed on the fundraising website. They also received 21 prayers. Miller portrayed the Wards' presentation of themselves as Arizona's lawful presidential electors as a free speech matter.
"AG Mayes is trying to punish, bankrupt, and silence Kelli and Michael for speaking out in favor of election integrity," Miller wrote. "And Mayes wants to quash all future peaceable protests against the democrat party by criminalizing this type of speech." The top donor through Friday was Hildy Angius, a member of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors and a Republican candidate for a state Senate seat from Legislative District 30 in the northwest part of the state.
Other fundraising appeals on the site are from Rudy Giuliani, an attorney, associate of former President Donald Trump and former New York City mayor; attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked with Giuliani on Trump legal matters; attorney John Eastman; and Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official and a co-defendant in the Georgia case involving fake electors.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/25/arizona-fake-electors-crowd-funding/73855472007/
Permanut
(6,368 posts)I guess that makes sense, Hitler said several times that he was doing God's will.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)For Christians and white people in general, for centuries now.
Arne
(3,473 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(151,431 posts)These wanna-be criminals can have it when they pry it from my dead, cold fingers.
Their attorney Miller also had this to say:
"And Mayes wants to quash all future peaceable protests against the democrat party by criminalizing this type of speech."
Note the use of the uncapitalized words "democrat party."
Evolve Dammit
(18,103 posts)calimary
(83,526 posts)NOT A PENNY from me, they'll get. They can go pound sand, and maybe charge people to watch.
durablend
(7,691 posts)tom_kelly
(1,034 posts)StoolPigeon
(157 posts)Martin68
(24,126 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,144 posts)It was kind of Mad magazine for adults. They were the ones who came up with the name "Short fingered vulgarian" for Trump... they had the good sense to realize he was a grifter and conman years ago.
Anyway, they used to do what they called "Spy Pranks" & one of my favorites is when they sent checks for a dollar and change to wealthy people to see who would actually cash them. Guess who did.
Ladythatvotesblue
(218 posts)relayerbob
(6,899 posts)Plead guilty.
Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,212 posts)The only money Id send them is from our old Monopoly game.
twodogsbarking
(11,764 posts)RainCaster
(11,336 posts)Let me check the value of those before I send them.