It’s the second victory for Arizona prosecutors this week in their sweeping case against many Trump allies.
An Arizona Republican who falsely claimed to be a legitimate presidential elector for former President Donald Trump — part of a sweeping effort by Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election — has pleaded guilty for her role in the scheme.
Lorraine Pellegrino, one of 11 Arizona Republicans who falsely posed as Trump’s electors that year, accepted a guilty plea to a single charge for filing a “false instrument” — the fraudulent Electoral College certificate. The state charge was one of several she faced for allegedly joining in a conspiracy to corrupt Arizona’s election results.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes charged the 11 fake electors, as well as several top Trump allies, in a broad indictment in April. Trump himself was not charged in the Arizona case, but he was identified by a state grand jury as an unindicted coconspirator. Trump was also charged federally and in Georgia with felonies arising from his fake elector scheme and other efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.
I still don’t think I quite understand how this scheme was supposed to work. Can someone ELI5?
They wanted to cause enough controversy so that Mike Pence could not certify the results and they could point to the few states they attempted this scheme in. This Arizona part of the scheme is step 1.
So basically…
Find a few States to make up “voter fraud” in, and flood the courts with made-up voter fraud challenges.
Mike Pence says, well because of all these issues there is clearly potential fraud so I won’t certify the election results.
Trump remains president and then takes the next steps to ensure he remains president and dictator .
The whole plan was a complete success except step 2, Mike Pence didn’t go along with the plan, so that’s when Trump ordered his supporters to attack the capital on Jan.6 to prevent the certification that way, which also failed.
I really don’t like Mike Pence but he single handedly saved America that day.
He saved it that day only for trump to continue to get away with multiple crimes that should see him locked away in prison forever. And then continue on to try and steal the election again in 2024 while constantly telling his followers that Democrats are the ones that are cheats who are stealing elections without any fucking irony whatsoever. And his dumbass followers are too far gone to even try to figure out the truth so we’ll be seeing an even bigger effort from them to steal the election yet again.
It’s just completely fucking stupid that people are being charged and locked up for crimes they committed at the command of a massive piece of shit and yet that massive piece of shit is somehow not responsible for the crimes he commanded others to do.
Thanks! This is helpful.
Yeah, he gained a lot (little) of respect from me that day. The bar was low, but still.