where electors? where electors! they were not the real electors. they tried to crash the soap will now as we ve been reporting this week, 16 michigan republicans went on to sign their names to fake elector documents claiming that trump was the rightful winner of these electoral votes, claiming that they were the rightful winners of the electors. they sent these to the national archives, the united states sentence. this is the same weird republican forgery scheme that was apparently being run in at least five states in what seems to be like a coordinated effort. and it was part of multiple investigations to attack the capitol and on january 6th. according to joscelyn benson,
though trump lost the senate. now as we ve been reporting this week, 16 michigan republicans went on to sign names to fake elector documents claiming that trump was the rightful winner of michigan s electoral votes, therefore they were the rightful electors and should be counted as such. they sent the documents to the national archives, the united states senate to be counted as part of trump s electoral tally. this is the same weird republican forgery scheme that was apparently being run in at least five states in what appears to have been a coordinated effort. it is now starting to catch the attention apparently of multiple investigations that are looking into the effort to overturn the election and the attack on january 6th. the person in charge of michigan s elections is secretary of state jocelyn benson. she and her staff reportedly have spoken to the january 6th investigation in congress, including to provide information about the forged elector documents in her state. we know tha
court. well, the story has been unfolding since then, and washington post and cnn have recently reported that the trump campaign was directly involved in planning an organizing this effort in multiple states, to submit these foreign slates of electors to try to overturn the election results and keep trump in power. but the whole reason we even knew that the january six investigation was looking into this forgery scheme, and that we know that the multi state forgery scheme was a significant part of the broader plot to overturn the election, is because of that initial reporting from nicholas woo at politico. well now in his latest piece, he has uncovered something else knew about the forgery scheme. in addition to at least two state attorney general referring these forgery case to federal prosecutors, and the possibility of state level investigations, as well as the possibility of the january 6th investigation looking into it and whatever we come of that, we now know thanks to mr. woo an
the washington post and cnn have recently reported that the trump campaign was directly involved in planning and organizing this effort in multiple states to submit these forged slates of electors to try to overturn the election results and keep trump in power. but the whole reason we even knew the january 6th investigation was looking into this forgery scheme and that we know that the multi-state forgery scheme was a significant part of the broader plot to overturn the election is because of the initial reporting from nicholas wu at politico. now in his latest piece, he has uncovered something else new about the forgery scheme. in addition to at least two state attorneys general referring this forgery case to federal prosecutors, and the possibility of state level investigations, as well as the possibility of a january 6th investigation, looking into it, and whatever may come of that, we now know, thanks to mr. wu and his colleague kyle cheney, we know there is another federal inv
documents at the heart of this part of the plot. what he turned up was that it wasn t just a fake electors in wisconsin who had submitted these forced documents, which we have been reported previously. it was also republicans in michigan. it was also republicans in arizona. and of course, now we know thanks in part to documents obtained by american oversight, that it was at least five states where this happened, and an additional two states where trump electors did the same thing as the other five states, but they at least included this caveat that their electorate effigies were only intended as a backup in case trump s legal efforts to overturn the election subsidy succeeded in court. well, the story has been unfolding since then, and washington post and cnn have recently reported that the trump campaign was directly involved in planning an organizing this effort in multiple states, to submit these foreign slates of electors to try to overturn the election results and keep trump in po