Arizona attorney general: First 'fake elector' agreed to flip in MAGA election plot case
One of the "fake electors" indicted in Arizona for the plot to overturn the election results in that state has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, state Attorney General Kris Mayes said Friday.
"We are going to have a very significant announcement to make early next week," Mayes told 12 News' "Sunday Square Off." When she was asked if this means one of the electors plans to flip, she said, "I think that's accurate," and added, "We're making progress in the case, and we feel good about the case."
Mayes did not specify which elector is expected to strike a deal.
Eleven people in Arizona falsely signed paperwork claiming to be electors on behalf of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden's narrow win in 2020. It was a scheme that was repeated across several other key battleground states, and has been criminally charged in Michigan and Georgia as well.
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The Georgia case, which also charged Trump himself with racketeering for his own alleged role in the scheme including his infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is currently on hold as state judges try to work through an ethics complaint against the prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
In addition to those electors being indicted, the Arizona case charges seven other individuals, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, pro-Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn.
According to some reports from earlier this year, some of the fake electors in the case have been provided with public defenders because of their inability to pay for their own defense. Among those electors are Greg Safsten, the former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, and Robert Montgomery, the former chair of the Cochise County Republican Committee.