According to several news outlets, Donald Trump campaign officials, led by disgraced attorney Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost in order to keep the defeated former president in power.
Citing three sources with direct knowledge of the report revealed that Giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts-and-bolts of the process on a state-by-state level, a core tenet of the broader plot to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6.
One source said there were multiple planning calls between Trump campaign officials and GOP state operatives, and that Giuliani was a participant on the calls. The source also said the Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet on December 14, 2020, and circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the National Archives.
Trump and some of his top advisers publicly encouraged the “alternate electors” scheme in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico. But behind the scenes, Giuliani and Trump campaign officials actively choreographed the process, the sources said.
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On Thursday night, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow shared new reporting on how Giuliani ran the operation. Watch the segment below.
