Arizona leftists are reportedly accelerating their own campaign to prosecute and incarcerate former President Donald Trump.
“Arizona prosecutors in recent weeks issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people linked to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, a sharp acceleration of their criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state,” Politico reported Wednesday.
“The new steps, first reported here, are a sign that Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, is nearing a decision on whether to charge Trump’s allies in the state, including GOP activists who falsely posed as presidential electors in December 2020,” according to the outlet.
Investigators on Attorney General Mayes’ team are currently reportedly investigating the “alternate electors” who’d signed paperwork claiming that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.
“Mayes’ team has also asked people about Trump himself, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro,” according to Politico.
Arizona AG Kris Mayes announced she is issuing subpoenas in a criminal investigation into Trump’s alternative electors. Arizona’s southern border is a disaster but Dems would rather focus on “getting Trump.” This is why very few will vote for Biden. pic.twitter.com/UMPWLy6PIp
— Charles R Downs (@TheCharlesDowns) March 7, 2024
According to CNN, the investigators have specifically “asked witnesses about meetings attended by Trump where the plan to put forward slates of fake GOP electors across the country was mentioned, including one in the Oval Office on December 16, 2020.”
“They have also inquired about several other boldfaced names who aided Trump’s attempt to upend Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, including conservative attorney John Eastman, the sources added,” CNN notes.
“Questions about Eastman, who was among those pushing fringe legal theories for overturning the 2020 election results and intimately involved in the fake electors scheme, primarily focused on his actions in the weeks and days leading up to January 6, 2021,” according to the site.
They also interviewed pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesbro and asked him questions about the 2020 Oval Office meeting.
“During that Oval Office meeting, Chesebro says he told Trump he could still win – and explained how the ‘alternate electors’ he helped assemble in Arizona and six other states gave Trump an opening to continue contesting the election until Congress certified the results on January 6, 2021,” CNN notes.
“I ended up explaining that Arizona was still hypothetically possible — because the alternate electors had voted,” Chesebro reportedly told Michigan state investigators, later adding that this made it “clear [to Trump] in a way that maybe it hadn’t been before, that we had until January 6 to win.”
“And that, you know, created a real problem,” he continued.
@AZAGMayes I just want to make one thing crystal clear. You and your scumbag Democrat fascists are persecuting Donald Trump. You have not learned that you need to stop your insurrection. Just remember the karma switch is always on. So think twice
— Freeeee Speeeech (@ShanbromJ) March 7, 2024
All this comes amid a flurry of polls showing Trump trouncing President Joe Biden in Arizona general election polls. An Emerson College poll conducted late last month found him ahead by 13 points.
This marks a reversal from what occurred in 2020, when Biden just barely beat Trump 49.36 percent to 49.06 percent.
All this also comes just days out from the Supreme Court ruling that Trump’s name may not be removed from the ballot in Colorado.
The high court’s unanimous ruling has also put to rest another strategy that Democrats had been considering using to disqualify Trump.
“That move would try to bar Trump on Jan. 6, 2025: Congress’ job, this argument goes, is to ‘count’ electoral votes to determine a winner,” according to Slate magazine. “But Congress can’t count any vote for a candidate not qualified to be president. So, Congress can’t count the votes for Donald Trump, this view has it, because he is an obvious insurrectionist.
But, Slate notes, “the court has now effectively ruled it [this stupid idea] wrong as a matter of law.”
Other efforts to oust Trump have also failed, most notably in Georgia, where prosecutor Fani Willis has come under fire herself for the corruption she’s displayed during her investigation into the former president.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t gone through their vacation photos. Surely someone must have photos of the lovebirds enjoying the largesse scammed from Georgia taxpayers. https://t.co/cpz6EZ4pR7
— MH (@twgurl54) March 3, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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