All posts tagged "Joshua Findlay"

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the charges against Donald Trump related to his mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House. The story has been corrected.

Donald Trump’s announcement earlier this week that he received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith set in motion an indictment watch for new criminal charges that will likely center on a scheme to install fake electors to cast fake electoral votes on his behalf.

And buried deep in the U.S. House’s January 6 select committee’s 845-page final report is a single, all-but-unnoticed line about installing fake presidential electors that could foreshadow Trump’s fate.

“It was my understanding that the president made this decision” to initiate the fake elector gambit, former Trump campaign associate general counsel Joshua Findlay told committee investigators....