Eleven local Republican elected officials are targeted by these lawsuits, as well as seven other people, including Rudy Giuliani, the billionaire’s former personal lawyer.
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The Arizona Attorney General announced on Wednesday April 24 that he had charged 18 people as part of an investigation into the attempt to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. He said that eleven local Republican elected officials were targeted by these lawsuits, as well as seven other people residing outside the state. According to Washington Postamong these seven people are Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, lawyers Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, as well as Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer.
The accusations allege a plot to award electoral votes to Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election in Arizona. The Republican billionaire, again a candidate against Joe Biden, has not been charged in this case. However, he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, according to the Washington Post.
Joe Biden won this southwestern state with a little more than 10,000 votes ahead of his Republican opponent. But many conservative leaders then considered, without proof, that there had been fraud and that Donald Trump had won Arizona. Local elected officials had signed documents falsely attesting to the Republican’s victory. After Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, Arizona is the fourth state to initiate proceedings against people who tried to form an alternative list of electors to award victory to Donald Trump.
