The fake electors scheme was 'a straightforward crime': Ex-prosecutor warns Boris Epshteyn
Donald Trump's longtime adviser Boris Epshteyn might be part of the forthcoming indictments involving the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election if former prosecutor Harry Litman is correct.
Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, substitute host Ayman Mohyeldin played a clip of Epshteyn in an interview with Ari Melber on Jan. 22, 2022.
Melber asked about the fake electors scheme, and Epshteyn corrected him, saying that they were "alternative electors."
"It is not fraudulent electors, Ari," said Epshteyn. "It is alternate electors. ... I was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors for when, as we hoped, the challenges to the seated electors would be heard and be successful. Part of the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act." It is not clear that there is an amendment or "Act" that allows fake electors to be submitted to Congress as if they're real electors.
Mohyeldin laughed at the admission, "I was part of the process to find alternate electors! I mean, Harry, is he not admitting to the false elector plot?"
Litman made it clear that special counsel Jack Smith doesn't need anything else to prove the fraudulent elector's scheme.
"You're 100 percent right and that is funny," said Litman. "And it is not alternate electors. It is fraudulent electors. It's people that sign pieces of paper saying, 'My state, has made me an elector and I'm for Trump,' when exactly the opposite has happened. So, Epshteyn has been a figure here and a very controversial one. He's been responsible for a lot of lawyers abandoning ship. But, yeah, it seems clear from the state level and now to the sort of circle around Trump, that people were very earnest about having false electors. That is just a straightforward crime of defrauding the United States and probably a wire fraud as well. I agree, that is a very good statement for them to use if they call him to the stand."
Another of Trump's campaign officials is already cooperating with the special counsel on the fake electors scheme.
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