Mr Wilenchik also outlined a plan from another lawyer working with the campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, to send fake electors for Mr Trump, noting that the plan was not legally sound. He added in a later email that “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes.” The email was sent to Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for the Trump campaign.
“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes,” wrote Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer who helped organise pro-Trump electors in Arizona, in an email sent on 8 December, 2020, according to the Times. The emails frequently refer to “fake” electors, and those involved seemed aware that their efforts had no legal standing, the Times reported. The Times said it had reviewed and authenticated dozens of emails that show a frantic effort by aides to Mr Trump and a coterie of lawyers and supporters outside of the White House to send fake electors to the Electoral College certification of the 2020 election.
All rights reserved.)Īdvisors to Donald Trump who were involved in the former president’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election appeared to recognise that their plan was legally dubious, according to emails revealed by The New York Times. Capitol Riot Sentencing (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.
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