Posted on 08/18/2023 8:13:16 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Mayes confirmed a Washington Post report last month that her office was investigating the 11 phony Trump electors in Arizona.
PHOENIX — Prosecutors in Georgia and Michigan have filed criminal charges over the alleged schemes to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election defeat.
Is Arizona next?
"We are taking this investigation very seriously, very solemnly," Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said Wednesday, in her first public comments about her office's investigation of the attempts in Arizona to overturn Joe Biden's 11,000-vote victory over Trump.
"We will not move forward unless we believe we will be successful."
Mayes confirmed a Washington Post report last month that her office was investigating the 11 phony Trump electors in Arizona.
The group, which included then-Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, two Republican lawmakers and defeated U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon, signed documents that falsely claimed they were Arizona's rightful electors.
Ward claimed in a tweet on Dec. 14, 2020, that the 11 signers were "the electors who represent the legal voters of Arizona!"
The documents were conveyed to the Capitol in an attempt to thwart the Electoral College count in Congress on Jan. 6 that declared Biden the winner of the presidential election.
Similar efforts were orchestrated in Georgia, Michigan and four other states.
In both Georgia and Michigan, criminal charges have been filed against fake electors.
"We are doing a thorough and professional investigation," Mayes said.
"And we're going to do it on our timetable, as justice demands."
Speaking to reporters at an unrelated event held at her office, Mayes asked for patience regarding the phony electors investigation.
"We're not going to go forward with anything that doesn't meet our charging standards," she said.
The first-term attorney general has been in office just eight months. She noted the Georgia investigation took 2 1/2 years. The Michigan probe lasted about the same amount of time before charges were brought.
Mayes' predecessor, two-term Republican Mark Brnovich, declined to take any action against fellow Republicans who attempted to influence or upend the 2020 election results.
After she took office in January, Mayes released documents that showed Brnovich concealed his own investigators' findings that there was no evidence to support claims of election fraud in Maricopa County during the 2020 election.
Mayes' investigators might get some help from the Fulton County indictment. It sheds new light on how the scheme in Arizona allegedly came together, as part of an "illegal conspiracy" to reverse Trump's election defeat.
The lawyer who wrangled the electors reached out to the then executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. Documents were sent for Trump electors in Arizona to cast a bogus electoral vote, two weeks after Biden's victory in Arizona was certified by the Republican governor, Doug Ducey.
Mayes declined to say whether her office has contacted Georgia authorities.
Oh yeah... she just started this last week too...
This is a full on DNC RICO attack on democracy...
I believe prosecutors at all levels have receive4d orders from Garland/Biden to file every possible charge they can against Trump. They know that if he is on the ballot, we win.
Looks like they’re about to indict Kelli Ward and a bunch of other Arizona pubbies.
Anyone still think this is not centrally coordinated? Expect another set of indictments from AZ later in the year.
Just in time for the “JRB Ware” revelations.
“We are taking this investigation very seriously, very solemnly,” Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes
LOLOLOL....pant, pant...whew.
Bkmk
Took these DNC partisans two and a half years to figure out that a “crime” had been committed...
Wonder what skeletons we find in their closets when we open the door?
Let’s call all this by the correct name: liberalism, not democracy.
Death by a Thousand Cuts.
Trump made a mistake by not calling forth the militia and invoking the Insurrection Act to deal with the fraud and the Big Steal.
We just heard Hunter had Joey’s number in his phone under the name “Pedo Joe”
So when will AZ drop an indictment on Trump? Need to distract from Joey Biden being a TRAITOR.
Can someone explain to me who the “phony electors” are, and what they did to form the predicate of a criminal investigation?
Every party on the ballot appoints candidate Electors who would, if their candidate won the state, proceed to cast votes, get them certified by the State, and send them on to the President of the Senate to be counted.
So, there were Republican slates in Arizona, Georgia, etc. After Trump lost, or appeared to lose, in those states, those Republican would-be Electors had nothing more to do, right?
Is it claimed that they actually DID something criminal, like send in forged certificates of ascertainment?
If they just went home, what is the basis of a criminal investigation?
This is the language of unserious people and reminds me of Pelosi saying she "prayerfully" contemplated the phony impeachments of Trump, or the setting up the J6 Kangaroo Kommittee.
Correct.
What, exactly, are they investigating?
Well - if you've got the whip hand the banana hand, why not go after your political opponents with your fake law and rigged courts?
Kartel Katie and "Medellin" Mayes have got their marching orders from their masters in DC and their masters south of the border.
You can even see the puppet strings on these two.
Ohhh...Me too!! Me too!!
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