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In what may be the most extreme example of Lawfare yet displayed by Democrats, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and 16 other Trump allies have all been indicted in Arizona.
President Trump has been named as “Unindicted Co-Conspirator #1”.
BREAKING NOW:18 people charged in Arizona ELECTION INTERFERENCE PROBE including Trump allies Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis..
DEVELOPING.. pic.twitter.com/QCLmr5qBnF
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 24, 2024
This news was not widely expected and comes as a significant surprise.
Of course Brian Krassen on Twitter celebrated the news in disgusting fashion:
HOLY CRAP!
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and multiple others have just been indicted in Arizona in a State election subversion case.
This is in addition to the Michigan indictments of fake electors earlier today.
To make matters even worse for Trump, he was named as an… pic.twitter.com/wSRTY1rFnt
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 24, 2024
Nothing like watching your country and the rule of law be destroyed before your very eyes and singing and dancing while you watch the ship sink.
So sad.
From Politico, here are some of the breaking details:
An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.
The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
“Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the 58-page indictment reads.
The names of seven of the defendants, including Meadows, Giuliani and Epshteyn, are redacted, but the document makes clear who they are by describing their roles. Others include attorneys John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Christina Bobb, as well as Trump 2020 campaign operative Mike Roman.
Ken Chesebro, an attorney who helped devise Trump’s post-election strategy, is described as “unindicted coconspirator 4.”
The only defendants whose names are visible in the version of the indictment released by the Arizona attorney general’s office Wednesday evening are the 11 Republicans who falsely posed as the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s narrow victory there. Among them: former Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, state senators Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Arizona’s RNC committeeman Tyler Bowyer.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, has been helming the aggressive investigation. Though she initially appeared to be focused primarily on the false electors, in recent months it became clear that the scope of the probe was broader than previously understood and swept up prominent Trump allies at the national level.
Mayes is the fifth prosecutor to bring criminal charges over the sprawling, multi-state bid by Trump and his allies to upend the 2020 results. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with federal crimes for those efforts. Prosecutors in Georgia have charged Trump and many of his allies for their efforts to overturn the results in that state, including the fake electors plot. Prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada have also charged Republicans who posed as fake electors in those states.
The announcement felt like something right out of 1984 or out of a Communist Regime.
Watch this if you can stomach it:
#BREAKING– Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis among 18 people have been charged in an Arizona election interference probe pic.twitter.com/ypl2gAFnp9
— Diligent Denizen (@DiligentDenizen) April 24, 2024
Grok reports:
The full list of the 18 individuals indicted in the Arizona election probe includes:
Kelli Ward
Tyler Bowyer
Nancy Cottle
Jacob Hoffman
Anthony Kern
James Lamon
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Moorhead
Lorraine Pellegrino
Greg Safsten
Michael Ward
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Boris Epshteyn
Jenna Ellis
Christina Bobb
John Eastman
Mike Roman
From CNN:
The indictment in Arizona includes nine counts, from conspiracy and forgery to engaging in fraudulent schemes. Because the indictment remains partially redacted, it is unclear what charges Trump allies such as Meadows, Epshteyn and Giuliani face.
“In Arizona, and the United States, the people elected Joseph Biden as President on November 3, 2020,” the indictment reads. “Unwilling to accept this fact, Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters.”
The scheme, according to the indictment, called for the fake electors to fraudulently vote for Trump, “falsely claiming to be the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States from the State of Arizona.”
“Defendants deceived the citizens of Arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election,” the indictment continues. “In reality, Defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to reject the Biden-Harris votes on January 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge.”
This scheme failed on January 6, 2021, when then-Vice President Mike Pence accepted the electoral votes for Joe Biden, the indictment says.
CNN is reaching out to those charged for comment.
The case adds scrutiny to actions taken on Trump’s behalf after the last election. It also comes as Trump’s legal team will argue before the Supreme Court Thursday that he’s immune from prosecution in the federal election interference case – at the same time Trump is on trial in New York related to hush money paid to cover up an alleged affair before the 2016 election.
The Arizona case is the latest state-level prosecution aimed at schemes to upend Biden’s electoral victory. Prosecutors in Michigan, Georgia and Nevada also have brought criminal charges against some of the people who signed on as fake electors in those states. Investigators in Wisconsin are conducting a similar probe.
A grand jury empaneled in Maricopa County, Arizona, to investigate efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state met this week before Mayes announced the charges.
CNN previously reported that Arizona prosecutors had issued a series of grand jury subpoenas to people connected to Trump’s campaign and several individuals who served as fake electors from that state – a sign the probe was accelerating ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Some of the fake electors who were ultimately charged in Arizona recently appeared before the grand jury and cited their Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination, sources familiar with the probe told CNN.
Mayes initially focused her investigation on the 11 fake electors from Arizona and those who helped organize them, but the sources recently told CNN she also was looking into individuals tied to the former president’s national campaign.
“We conducted a thorough and professional investigation over the past 13 months into the fake electoral scheme in our state,” Mayes said Wednesday. “I understand for some of you today didn’t come fast enough. And I know I’ll be criticized by others for conducting this investigation at all. But as I’ve stated before, and will say here again today, I will not allow American democracy to be undermined.”
Several state-level officials from Arizona told the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot that Trump and his allies tried to pressure them to decertify the state’s election results.
This is a developing story.
We’ll continue to monitor and bring you updates as we have them.
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