Fake electors

A **fake elector** of a group of **fake electors**

* Arizona

* Georgia

* Nevada

* Wisconsin

Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a "central figure" in the plot,[2] coordinated the scheme across the seven states.[3] In a **conference call on January 2, 2021, Trump, Eastman, and Giuliani spoke to some 300 Republican state legislators** in an effort to persuade them to convene special legislative sessions to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake Trump electors based on unfounded allegations of vote fraud.

The January 6 committee's final report identified lawyer Kenneth Chesebro as the plot's actual architect.

Testimony has revealed that Trump was fully aware of the fake electors plan, and knew that Eastman's plan for Pence to obstruct the certification of electoral votes was a violation of the Electoral Count Act.

## the scheme

Law professor John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, an adviser to Trump's campaign, wrote legal memos arguing that state legislatures had the authority to choose their own electors, according to the committee's final report.

Trump and supporters including Rudy Giuliani, his former personal lawyer, urged legislators in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia to take this step, but none did so. (A Georgia prosecutor is investigating attempts to reverse Trump's defeat in that state.)

Nevertheless, Trump and his allies assembled their own slates of electors in seven states that he lost. Those electors met on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast their votes for Trump - the same day when legitimate electors cast their ballots for Biden.

Those ballots had no legal standing, but Trump and his supporters used them to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to discard the actual results from the states in question when he presided over Congress's Jan. 6, 2021 session to certify the election outcome.

That would have left Biden short of the needed 270-vote majority, giving Republicans in Congress a chance to declare Trump the victor.

Pence refused to go along with the scheme, saying he did not have the authority to reject electors.

On Jan. 6, Trump held a rally in front of the White House and told the crowd that it would be a "sad day for our country" if Pence did not do as he wished. Thousands of his supporters then attacked the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to derail the proceedings.

Five people died and more than 140 police were injured. The Capitol suffered millions of dollars in damage.

More than 1,000 people have been charged for crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack.

Reporting by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Scott Malone and Grant McCool

* The Eastman memos, also known as the "coup memo", are documents by John Eastman, an American law professor retained by then-President Donald Trump advancing the fringe legal theory that a U.S. Vice President has unilateral authority to reject certified State electors. This would have the effect of nullifying an election in order to produce an outcome personally desired by the Vice President, such as a result in the Vice President's own party's favor, including retaining himself as Vice President, or if the Vice President is himself the presidential candidate, then to unilaterally make himself president. Trump and Eastman used the memos in an unsuccessful campaign to pressure then-vice president Mike Pence into preventing or nullifying the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count.

## www

* Arizona fake electors led vocal campaign to overturn the ... — They called it “The Signing.” Eleven fake electors for President Donald Trump convened at the state Republican Party headquarters in Phoenix]. cnn - november 10, 2023

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump\_fake\_electors\_plot
	+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman\_memos The Eastman memos, also known as the "coup memo",[6][7] are documents by John Eastman, an American law professor retained by then-President Donald Trump advancing the fringe legal theory that a U.S. Vice President has unilateral authority to reject certified State electors. This would have the effect of nullifying an election in order to produce an outcome personally desired by the Vice President, such as a result in the Vice President's own party's favor, including retaining himself as Vice President, or if the Vice President is himself the presidential candidate, then to unilaterally make himself president. Trump and Eastman used the memos in an unsuccessful campaign to pressure then-vice president Mike Pence into preventing or nullifying the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count.
	+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021\_United\_States\_Electoral\_College\_vote\_count

* https://www.nytimes.com › us · Fake Electors: A Nevada grand jury indicted top leaders of the state's Republican Party in the fake elector scheme to overturn Joe Biden's
* Whatˋs happening with Trumpˋs fake el …… — the hill

* Zitat: *On January 4, 2021, Morgan sent an email to Chesebro and Roman asking for confirmation that all of the Trump elector slates had been received by Congress, according to the documents obtained by CNN.* By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Katelyn Polantz, CNN, Updated 4:47 PM EST, Thu December 28, 2023