Another possible state criminal trial against the Trump effort to overturn the 2020 election electoral count…..
Arizona prosecutors in recent weeks issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, a sharp acceleration of their criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
The new steps, first reported here, are a sign that Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, is nearing a decision on whether to charge Trump’s allies in the state, including GOP activists who falsely posed as presidential electors in December 2020…
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It was not clear whether Mayes is considering charges against people close to Trump’s national campaign, or whether her investigation remains focused on the Arizona GOP officials and activists who aided Trump’s bid to overturn the state’s presidential results. In November, Mayes told CNN that the investigation is “robust.”
Mayes’ investigators are scrutinizing the so-called “alternate electors” who signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump had won the state. Prosecutors in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have already brought charges against pro-Trump fake electors in their states.
Mayes’ team has also asked people about Trump himself, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro….
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Mayes could become the final prosecutor to bring charges related to Trump’s efforts to resist the 2020 election results. At the federal level, special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with a conspiracy to disenfranchise millions of voters. And in Georgia, state prosecutors charged the former president and 18 of his allies with a racketeering conspiracy to meddle in the election there.
The attorneys general in Michigan and Nevada have also charged the Republicans who falsely claimed to be their states’ presidential electors…..