Trump “launched his criminal scheme” shortly after Election Day, the indictment charges, saying the conspiracy initially targeted Arizona.
“So the next day, the Defendant turned to Co-Conspirator 1, whom he announced would spearhead his efforts going forward to challenge the election results,” the indictment says, referring to Rudy Giuliani. “From that point on, the Defendant and his co-conspirators executed a strategy to use knowing deceit in the targeted states to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function.
Trump and Giuliani asked Bowers to “call the legislature into session to hold a hearing based on their claims of election fraud,” which Bowers said he wouldn’t do “without actual evidence of fraud.” They also asked Bowers to use the Legislature to replace the legitimate electors for Biden with a new slate for Trump. “The Arizona House Speaker refused, responding that the suggestion was beyond anything he had ever heard or thought of as something within his authority,” the indictment says.
“I and my fellow legislators swore an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and the constitution and laws of the state of Arizona. It would violate that oath, the basic principles of republican government, and the rule of law if we attempted to nullify the people’s vote based on unsupported theories of fraud,” Bowers said.
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