United States Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks throughout an interview revealing a considerable guns trafficking enforcement action and continuous efforts to safeguard neighborhoods from violent criminal offense and weapon violence at the Department of Justice in Washington, June 13, 2022.
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The Department of Justice is performing a criminal examination into the development of alternate slates of governmental electors for Donald Trump as part of a strategy to reverse President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election, The New York Times reported Thursday.
That probe is especially concentrated on a group of lawyers who were working for Trump on that effort, The Times reported.
The paper stated that a federal grand jury in Washington previously this year provided subpoenas to individuals linked to the strategy to advance alternate electors. They inquired about Trump’s previous individual legal representative Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Giuliani’s associate in the election cases, and another Trump legal representative, John Eastman.
The DOJ did not instantly react to an ask for discuss the Times report from CNBC.
On the heels of Election Day in November 2020, throughout which Biden won the popular vote, certificates professing to be from Trump electors were sent out from 7 states that Biden had actually won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania andWisconsin Those slates were never ever honored in the Electoral College results, which Biden won.
