NV GOP leaders offered 'limited immunity' in fake electors probe, testified about Laxalt
Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid reportedly received limited immunity to testify to a grand jury about their roles in the effort to overturn the 2020 election in Nevada, according to CNN.
McDonald and DeGraffenreid were seen testifying to a grand jury last week in Washington, D.C, as part of the probe by federal prosecutor Jack Smith into efforts to subvert the 2020 election results. CNN reported Friday that McDonald and DeGraffenreid provided testimony about former Nevada attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and Trump campaign lawyer Jesse Binnal, both of whom were involved in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The pair’s inclusion in the probe and offer of limited immunity, which allows individuals to testify without the government using that testimony against them if investigators pursue prosecution, suggest Smith’s team is narrowing in on the Trump campaign plot in seven states, including Nevada, to send an alternate slate of electors to cast votes for former President Donald Trump in states he lost, and that he might be pursuing bigger targets than the actual fake electors themselves.
McDonald and DeGraffenreid were two of the six Republicans who met up in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast an alternate slate of electors for Trump as part of the effort across the country (coordinated by the Trump campaign) to overturn the results of the election. The fake electors sent their electoral votes to D.C. in the hopes that Republicans in Congress would certify the fake slate on Jan. 6 rather than the official slate, certified by the secretary of state in accordance with Nevada law and pledged to President Joe Biden.
Laxalt, who was a co-chair of Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign in Nevada, was a vocal proponent of false election conspiracy theories alleging Trump actually won the state, hosting a press conference to detail false fraud claims on Nov. 8 in Las Vegas. Trump lost Nevada by about 2.5 percentage points in 2020. The Trump campaign filed various lawsuits claiming irregularities in the management of the election, and Laxalt in media appearances raised falsehoods about signature certification machines. None of the lawsuits were successful.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nv-gop-leaders-offered-limited-immunity-in-fake-electors-probe-testified-about-laxalt
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