The US Department of Justice is investigating fake electors supporting former President Trump during the 2020 presidential election, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Tuesday.
Monaco said federal prosecutors are now reviewing fake Electoral College certifications sent to the National Archives in mid-December 2020 that declared former President Donald Trump the winner of seven states that he lost, refusing to give more details on ongoing investigations.
Certifications were obtained and made public by the watchdog group American Oversight.
Amid the House’s Jan 6 investigation into the pressure campaign that sought to reverse Trump’s electoral defeat, those elector certificates – sent from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, and New Mexico – have attracted public scrutiny with multiple officials calling on the DOJ to investigate the documents and take action if needed.
She only underscored that the DOJ is going to follow the facts and the law, wherever they might lead, to address any kind of conduct at any level that is part of an assault on the American democracy.
Trump’s campaign, according to sources familiar with the issue, was allegedly active in the fake electors scheme and the recruitment of electors for the falsified certificates.
A former Trump campaign staffer pointed out that it was Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and several misfit characters who started calling the shots. Giuliani was already subpoenaed for his alleged involvement in the fake elector plot by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
The committee said in the subpoena that Giuliani actively promoted election fraud claims on behalf of Trump – continues to peddle false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election and refuses to concede – and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.
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