Testimony has revealed that Trump was fully aware of the fake electors scheme, and knew that Eastman's plan for Pence to obstruct the certification of electoral votes was a violation of the
Electoral Count Act.
[2][3]
Trump's personal attorney,
Rudy Giuliani, a "central figure" in the plot, coordinated the scheme across the seven states.
[4][5] In a conference call on January 2, 2021, Trump, Eastman, and Giuliani spoke to some 300 Republican state legislators in an effort to persuade them to convene
special legislative sessions to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake Trump electors based on unfounded allegations of election fraud.
[6] Trump pressured the
Justice Department to falsely announce it had found election fraud, and he attempted to install a new acting attorney general who had
drafted a letter falsely asserting such election fraud had been found, in an attempt to persuade the Georgia legislature to convene and reconsider its Biden electoral votes.
[7]
Trump and Eastman asked
Republican National Committee chair
Ronna McDaniel to enlist the committee's assistance in gathering fake "contingent" electors.
[2] A senator's chief of staff tried to pass a list of fraudulent electors to Pence minutes before the vice president was to certify the election.
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