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Jun 24 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This week, the Jan. 6 subcommittee discussed the pressure Donald Trump and his allies applied to election officials, including the plot to use fake slates of electors.

We obtained the fake electoral certificates via FOIA. #FoiaFriday
The fake electoral certificates were assembled by Trump supporters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin who sought to replace valid presidential electors with bogus slates of pro-Trump electors.
americanoversight.org/fake-electoral…
The documents also show the names and signatures of the individuals who supported the effort to overturn the will of the people in their state. Most of the certificates contain no indication that they list illegitimate slates of electors not chosen by those states' voters.
On Tuesday, the committee presented evidence that Trump was directly involved in the fake-electors plan, having called RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to connect her with lawyer John Eastman to discuss the effort.
Members of Congress were also involved: Rep. Andy Biggs approached Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers about the scheme, and on Jan. 6, an aide to Sen. Ron Johnson told an aide for Vice President Pence that Johnson “needs to hand” the alternate slate to Pence.
After denying his participation in the effort, Johnson said the documents came from Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, and that he had connected Wisconsin attorney Jim Troupis with his chief of staff via text that morning. Kelly denied Johnson’s claim.
On Weds., federal agents issued subpoenas to people who were reportedly involved with the fake electoral certificates in various states, including Brad Carver, a lawyer in Georgia who allegedly signed a document claiming he was a Trump elector.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona GOP, was also among those subpoenaed in connection to the fake electoral certificates.
azmirror.com/2022/06/24/azg…
These phony documents are a critical piece of the coordinated, multi-state effort to reverse the 2020 election and subvert the will of American voters. These investigations across the country remind us that public records are a key component in holding leaders accountable.
Read the fake electoral certificates and learn more about how we’re investigating efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election here:
americanoversight.org/fake-electoral…

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Jun 23
We obtained a December 2020 letter signed by Kelly Townsend, who had just been elected to the Arizona Senate, addressed to then-Vice President Pence asking that he “not accept” Arizona’s valid electors during the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional certification of the election results.
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Jun 23
NEW: Michael Gableman, the attorney leading the Wisconsin Assembly’s partisan election inquiry, testified in court today indicating that the public records we’re seeking from the early months of the inquiry had been frequently destroyed.
A Wisc. judge had previously held the Assembly and Speaker Robin Vos in contempt for failing to comply with a court order to turn over Gableman’s records as their contractor.
Today, the judge found there was nothing further the Assembly or Speaker Vos could do to cure their contempt as any additional responsive records that may have existed have likely been deleted.
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“Thanks,” Sessions responded. “I’m very interested in this. Keep on it. Every decline in entry’s is huge reducing those who got past border too. With the decline and continued prosecution numbers the percentage goes up and we are in virtuous cycle.”
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