Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors

[riversedge]

Source: AP




By GABE STERN and RIO YAMAT today


LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.

The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020.

That day, six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that Trump won Nevada in 2020 and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is digging into the role that these fake electors in key battleground states had in Trump’s attempt to cling to power after his 2020 defeat.


McDonald and DeGraffenreid invoked Fifth Amendment protection hundreds of times in their separate interviews with the Jan. 6 committee, refusing to answer questions about their involvement and the extent to which Trump’s top allies had helped in orchestrating the plot.

Still, the transcripts provide an unprecedented view into the Trump team’s coordinated efforts in Nevada to overturn the results of the election — efforts that included direct communication between McDonald and the president himself.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-trump-nevada-election-transcripts-7aa0f2e582778b7beb0f5172c91d7fa9

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These fake electors who signed on should be investigated also. So much for Smith to do. I try to be patient.



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FILE - Nevada State GOP Chairman Michael McDonald announces President Donald Trump before he speaks the Nevada Republican Party Convention at the Suncoast Hotel and Casino Saturday, June 23, 2018, in Las Vegas. New transcripts released on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, by the House Jan. 6 committee reveals Donald Trump and his allies played a direct role in the Nevada Republican Party's phony elector scheme in 2020. The transcripts show McDonald invoked his Fifth Amendment protection 275 times when he was interviewed in February. (AP Photo/L.E. Baskow, File)







More at above link:
More on the report

– READ: Final Report From the Jan. 6 Committee
– Jan. 6 report: Trump 'lit that fire' of Capitol insurrection
– Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump's lies to the 'unimaginable'

[roscoeroscoe]

1. All together now:

LOCK THEM UP!

[republianmushroom]

2. and nothing will happen to any of the involved in the plot

23 months and counting

[RussBLib]

5. Just stop it

Sure, things have moved slowly. Do you expect light speed when half of these people invoke the 5th? And when it is spread all over the country? Justice takes time to catch up, especially when so many attempt to hide their culpability.

I don't expect every guilty fuck to be prosecuted or jailed, but some of them will face more consequences than they already have, and that's mejor que nada.

I'm tired of people immediately posing as Eyeore as soon as new info comes out.

[republianmushroom]

6. sorry you don't like my opinion. But it is mine.

[republianmushroom]

11. thank you for the reply

There must be justice. I'm willing to bet that most leaders and plotters of
this siege will walk which I find is a travesty. It must be kept in the eye of the public,
if not it will be forgotten.

[jgo]

9. would be interested in your opinion ...

on whether some accountability may come via civil lawsuits, especially those by Capitol police officers.

Odds for criminal prosecution seem lower because time is the enemy. Legal practice is to do an extensive investigation before criminal charges are considered. Given the complexity, that could mean either the clock runs out, or if a future repub admin happens, proceedings could just be shut down even if a trial is underway (pardons are a possibility too). Possible, but lower probability.

Civil lawsuits seem to have a higher probability.

[republianmushroom]

10. civil lawsuits are not justice they are compensation.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. They must be prosecuted or they will do it again.

[moniss]

4. No doubt that he was in contact in some

way with Speaker Vos in Wisconsin. There has been way too little focus on Vos at the state level and Ron Johnson who was supposed to hand the slate of fake electors to Pence.

[Mysterian]

8. Where are the fucking indictments?!

All these assholes belong in jail NOW!