As advisors to Trump grew increasingly desperate after the former President had lost the 2020 election, they devised a plan to create ‘fake’ electoral votes.

“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted,” Jack Wilenchik, a Phoenix-based lawyer wrote.

In a follow-up email, another lawyer wrote that “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes,” adding a smiley face emoji.

 

 

 

 

The emails were apparently not shared with lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office, who advised that the “fake electors” plan was not legally sound, or other lawyers on the campaign.

 

 

Pivotal to this plan was convincing Pence. At a fateful Oval Office meeting, Trump and his outside lawyer Mr. Eastman unsuccessfully pressured Mr. Pence to adopt the plan, as witnessed by Pence’s two top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacob, both of whom testified last week to the federal grand jury investigating the assault on the Capitol and what led to it.

 

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