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Ohio Joe

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Sat Feb 26, 2022, 07:01 AM Feb 2022

Georgia GOP chair tells 1/6 committee that Trump campaign directed alternate elector effort

The chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia on Friday told the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot that the Trump campaign had directed the party in 2020 to put forward an alternate slate of electors after then-President Donald Trump lost the state's vote, according to a person familiar with the testimony.

The Trump campaign's direct involvement in efforts to put forward so-called "fake" slates of electors in multiple states after Biden's win was previously reported by CNN, but it was not yet known if anyone involved had spoken about the campaign's directions to investigators.

The fake electors effort is now seen by the committee as a political disinformation tactic used to sow doubt in Joe Biden's win before the January 6, 2021, Electoral College vote certification in Washington. CNN previously reported that Trump outside lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the Trump campaign had been involved in organizing illegitimate elector slates in seven states.

David Shafer, chair of the GOP in Georgia, served as one of several bogus electors for Trump and had convened Republicans in the state's Capitol to put together an alternate elector certification in December 2020. He also was a plaintiff in a long-shot legal attempt for Trump to overturn the election in Georgia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-gop-chair-tells-1-6-committee-that-trump-campaign-directed-alternate-elector-effort/ar-AAUjOMt?ocid=msedgntp

Repugs are trying to spin this whole fake electors scheme as something that was 'just in case they won court cases' but that is bullshit. It was one of the cogs in trying to overturn the election and nothing else.

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