The House Jan. 6 committee's report provides an expanded roadmap for Georgia prosecutors investigating the efforts of former President Trump to overturn the 2020 election, spelling out details of an extraordinary pressure campaign on state officials.
An image of former President Donald Trump appears on a screen as the Jan. 6 House Select Committee conducts its final hearing on Monday in Washington, D.C.
Robert Sinners, a former Trump campaign staff member, is interviewed by the House Select Committee in an image from video displayed at a hearing June 21 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The committee notes that Raffensperger himself viewed Trump’s comments as a threat, given that his language “could be understood as directing the law-enforcement power of the Federal Government against them.”
It cites testimony by Giuliani at a Dec. 10, 2020, hearing before a Georgia legislative committee, in which he seized on a clip of Freeman passing Moss a ginger mint, claiming that the two women were smuggling USB drives “as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine” and suggested that the two women should be jailed and their homes searched.
The new details of the fake elector scheme may carry the most legal significance for Willis, however, because they show that senior Trump campaign lawyers were well aware that the plan to anoint pro-Trump electors in Georgia and other states that Biden had won was legally unsound from the outset. But by the time of his memo on Dec. 9, as it became clear no such rulings would be forthcoming in Wisconsin or in other states, Chesebro argued that unauthorized Trump electors could be selected and then retroactively recognized, not just by a court, but by a “state legislature or Congress.” That idea then became central to Trump’s plan for Jan. 6 to have Vice President Mike Pence reject the authorized Biden electors from key states, on the grounds that there were competing pro-Trump electors.
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