Fani Willis has a meeting transcript that could exonerate the so-called “fake” electors that form the centerpiece of her indictment against Donald Trump and 18 others. That’s according to a new report from The Federalist, which details what was said in December 2020, including language that could prove there was no intent to impersonate the official electors.
David Shafer and Ray Smith are charged as co-conspirators with Trump in allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia unlawfully. Yet, the transcript in question shows both men discussing why they were doing what they were doing, directly stating that they were not putting together a group of alternate electors in order to falsify the election. Instead, in their minds, they were seeking to preserve the right for Trump to continue his court challenge of the results. Specifically, they describe themselves as “Republican nominees for Presidential Elector(s),” not the actual electors.
While this doesn’t speak to the mindsets of the others in the indictment, it does seem to suggest that both Shafer and Smith understood they weren’t the official electors or that they had no intention to try to pass themselves off as such. Rather, they saw themselves as being on stand-by, in case Trump prevailed in his legal challenge of the results.
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