Trump’s top people have been indicted in Arizona for attempted voter fraud

The state of Arizona has been charged with trying to influence the results of the 2020 US presidential election Donald Trump against his most important advisers, the press reported on Wednesday. He is among the accused Rudy Giulianiformer mayor of New York, one of the former US president’s top allies, and Mark Meadows, former White House campaign chief. Although Trump is listed as an accomplice in the indictment, he is not among the defendants.

As we reported in a previous article, according to the charges, even though the Trumps admitted in a court hearing on November 13, 2020 that they lost the election in Arizona, the next day Trump told Giuliani that he would continue to fight to change the election. They then called the Speaker of the Arizona State House of Representatives, Rusty Bowers, and – falsely – claimed that Arizona’s non-US citizens, non-residents, and even dead people had voted, and asked the speaker to call the representatives together. The speaker refused this for lack of evidence. They then asked him to use the legislature to bypass the electoral process and install new electors. Bowers refused this request as well.

A few days later, Giuliani met personally with the Speaker, and when he again called on the lawyer to present the evidence with which he could support his claims, Giuliani said:

We have no proof, but we have many theories.

Bowers released a statement on December 4, 2020, stating that while he himself voted for Trump, he does not support proposals that encourage violations of existing laws. On January 4, 2021, John Eastman called Bowers and urged him to use the Republican majority in the legislature to recall the electors. Bowers reiterated that he knows of no election fraud in the state.

According to the prosecutor’s office, as in other states, the Trumps tried to use “pseudo-electors” in Arizona: they gathered people who, as electors, would have voted for Trump if he had received the majority of the votes. The Trumps persuaded them to make false certificates that they were legitimate electors and to notify the vice president who was verifying the results of the presidential election. Mike Pence and Congress too.

He was charged in the case Boris Epstein also, one of Trump’s legal advisers, which could cause complications in the criminal case, which is currently proceeding in a Manhattan court. In it, Trump is accused of concealing it from his former lawyer, Michael Cohen His payment of $130,000, which Stormy Daniels turned over to a porn star to keep quiet about their past affair before the 2016 election. According to the indictment, the former president committed document falsification during his election campaign and declared the payment to Daniels as a campaign expense.