Now an Arizona grand jury has handed up a 2020 election-related indictment procured by Arizona’s Democratic attorney general. The indictment includes charges against Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others in connection with the scheme Trump was pursuing in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Trump is named an unindicted co-conspirator.
The indictment is posted online here. Politico’s story on the indictment deciphers the names redacted from the indictment at present. Politico also identifies defendants whose names are visible in the version of the indictment released by the Arizona attorney general’s office Wednesday evening as the 11 Republicans who posed as the state’s presidential electors. They include former Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, state senators Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Arizona’s RNC committeeman Tyler Bowyer.
I asked my friend Andrew McCarthy to comment on the indictment. This is what he had to say:
I think it’s revisionist history and tells half a story. In real time, January 2021, nobody believed the cobbling together of Trump electors in contested states was a coup effort. It was a contingency: If Trump had prevailed in any of his unlikely challenges, the Trump electors could be swapped in for the prior Biden elector slates.
I think whatever documents they executed were with that understanding. No one thought those slates would be operative unless Trump prevailed in state court or the state legislature.
I’ve always thought this was a big tell: If the so-called fake electors scheme was a crime, why has Smith not indicted it? It’s mentioned in the Trump indictment, but it’s not charged as a crime, nor have any electors or those coordinating them been indicted for fraud, false statements, or manipulating evidence.
In other words — one more front in the Democrats’ election interference and lawfare campaign .
