The select House advisory group exploring the Jan. 6 mob at the U.S. Legislative center gave summons to 14 individuals associated with a work to present a substitute record of Electoral College citizens for then-President Donald Trump.
The advisory group said Friday it needs data from individuals who met and submitted bogus Electoral College testaments in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Those individuals then, at that point, sent the fake Electoral College certificates to Congress, which were utilized by numerous Trump consultants to “justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6th, 2021,” the committee said.
The select House board of trustees exploring the Jan. 6 uproar at the U.S. Legislative hall gave summons to 14 individuals associated with a work to present a substitute record of Electoral College citizens for then-President Donald Trump.
The board of trustees said Friday it needs data from individuals who met and submitted bogus Electoral College endorsements in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The board said it has gotten data that gatherings met on Dec. 14, 2020, in the seven states referenced in the summons and “then submitted bogus slates of Electoral-College votes for former President Trump.”
Those individuals then, at that point, sent the fake Electoral College accreditations to Congress, which were utilized by numerous Trump counsels to “legitimize postponing or hindering the affirmation of the political decision during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. sixth, 2021,” the council said.
That meeting was savagely disturbed that day by a horde of Trump allies who attacked the Capitol complex and amassed through the lobbies of Congress.
Individuals summoned by the council filled in as administrators or secretaries of each gathering of the bogus voters.
They are Nancy Cottle, Chairperson, Arizona; Loraine B. Pellegrino, Secretary, Arizona; David Shafer, Chairperson, Georgia; Shawn Still, Secretary, Georgia; Kathy Berden, Chairperson, Michigan; Mayra Rodriguez, Secretary, Michigan; Jewll Powdrell, Chairperson, New Mexico; Deborah W. Maestas, Secretary, New Mexico; Michael J. McDonald, Chairperson, Nevada; James DeGraffenreid, Secretary, Nevada; Bill Bachenberg, Chairperson, Pennsylvania; Lisa Patton, Secretary, Pennsylvania; Andrew Hitt, Chairperson, Wisconsin; and Kelly Ruh, Secretary, Wisconsin.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who is the administrator of the board, said, “We believe the individuals we have subpoenaed today have information about how these so-called alternate electors met and who was behind that scheme.”
“We encourage them to cooperate with the Select Committee’s investigation to get answers about January 6th for the American people and help ensure nothing like that day ever happens again,” Thompson said.
The select advisory group has talked with many observers as a component of its test.
Trump as of late lost work in government court to impede the board from getting in excess of 700 pages of reports from his residency in the White House.
The Supreme Court denied his solicitation to impede that transmission of records.
A representative for Trump didn’t quickly react to CNBC’s solicitation for input.
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