THE TIMING COULDN’T BE MORE PRECISE. On Wednesday, as Trump’s ‘hush money’ non-case flounders in New York, mischief is afoot in another state half a continent away in Arizona. A grand jury in the Grand Canyon state indicted 18 of the 45th president’s allies meant to echo the dangers to them and their ilk when they are ‘election deniers.’
Those indicted include former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, along with five attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn (whose names are redacted) and John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, and Christina Bobb (whose names are unredacted). Campaign operative Mike Roman is named, as well. Trump is described as an unindicted co-conspirator, and Ken Chesebro, an attorney who worked on Trump’s post-election strategy, was named as co-conspirator 4. Bobb is an interesting case because she was recently promoted to a senior role at the Republican National Committee on election integrity.
The indictments include felony counts of conspiracy, fraud, and forgery over allegedly subverting the 2020 election, to wit, “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters.” The 58-page indictment can be read here.
The public release of the indictment issued by the Arizona Attorney General’s office only displays the name of eleven Republicans who were prepared to be alternate electors in what appeared to Dems to be a very close Biden victory in 2020. They include former Arizona G.O.P. Chairwoman Kelli Ward; state senators Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern; and Arizona’s RNC committeeman Tyler Bowyer.
This is the work product of Arizona’s A.G., Kris Mayes, who is obviously a Democrat who enjoys aggressive prosecutions. She replaced a Republican in that role in 2022. She is the fifth prosecutor in the nation to attempt to convict Trump or any of his associates for their ‘election denials.’ The latest addition to the persecutions is Michigan, which is also calling Trump an unindicted co-conspirator in that state.
When Hillary Clinton thought the 2016 election was stolen from her, she never affirmed Trump won, so why she is entitled to election denial and he isn’t, is less than clear. She’s talking about it to this day. The only notable difference is party. The fact there were alternate electors chosen shouldn’t matter: after all, there is so little precedent for it, any time it happens, it will be a novel case deserving of being argued and heard. The fact Jan. 6th happened shouldn’t matter, either. Like it or not, Trump did recommend law enforcement presence which was denied by those whose job it was to decide: then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and did his best to calm things down. Dems and the Deep State that controls them simply wants Trump out of the way by any means possible. We’re just beginning to see how scary that is…
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