BREAKING: THREAD: smoking gun emails reviewed by the Times show a trump lawyer named Wilenchik referring to the fraudulent slates of electors as “FAKE” in emails to Epshteyn. “‘Alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes.” 1/ 
Participants also reported their activities to Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, and Meadows emailed a campaign advisor saying “We just need to have someone coordinating the electors for states.” 2/
Epshteyn acted as a conduit for people inside and outside the trump campaign and the White House, and was a point of contact for Eastman. He also coordinated Eastman’s pay AND the arrangements for the 1/4 meeting with Short, Jacob, Trump, Pence, and Eastman. 3/
Wilenchik also advised Kelli Ward - who was recently subpoenaed by the DoJ to keep the plan a secret. 4
He also wrote He also said “His idea is basically that all of us (GA, WI, AZ, PA, etc.) have our electors send in their votes (even though the votes aren’t legal under federal law — because they’re not signed by the Governor); so that members of Congress can fight about [it] 5/
That tracks with trump’s call to DoJ to simply announce election fraud and he and the congressional republicans would handle the rest. 6/
AND get this: these emails show a connection between the elector scheme and the violence at the capitol. 7/
Source: END/ nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/…
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