Two onetime campaign officials tied to former President Donald Trump's 2020 fake electors plot have been hired by House Republicans to oversee national elections, according to a new report.
The Committee on House Administration, which will play a key role when Congress certifies the election on Jan. 6, has hired former Trump campaign lawyer Joshua Findlay and operative Thomas Lane, CNN reported Thursday.
"The overlap between Trump’s 2020 team and the GOP-led committee in charge of overseeing elections indicates that the same cast of characters involved in the Trump legal ploys are being stationed in key positions on Capitol Hill," CNN reported.
"The House, currently under GOP control, is well-positioned to flood the zone with Trump’s new series of lies about ballots, vote-counting and the election process, and is laying the groundwork to challenge a potential defeat in November."
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Findlay engaged in efforts to push fake electors through in battleground states with an emphasis on Georgia, according to CNN sources and emails obtained by the news station.
The attorney will now be advising GOP members and election observers about election laws in battleground states, according to the report.
Lane, who served as a backup fake elector in Arizona in 2020, also helped decide who would serve in that role by collecting contact information and organizing meeting places, according to emails obtained by CNN.
CNN reported Lane is now listed as Elections Counsel & Director of Elections Coalition on committee records.
The House Administration elections subcommittee has also met with groups tied to Trump's 2020 attempts to overturn the election, according to the report.
The first is reportedly the Conservative Partnership Institute, a group linked to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
CNN reported the second, Election Integrity Network, is run by a Cleta Mitchell, who was on the notorious January 2021 call when Trump demanded Georgia’s secretary of state “find” him more than 11,000 winning votes.