Johnson’s spokesperson Alexa Henning tweeted Tuesday that the senator had nothing to do with the scheme to create a slate of Trump electors in Wisconsin and that the newly hired chief of staff person was simply passing along a request the office received. Or, “another possible read is Johnson wanted to put Vice President Pence in an uncomfortable position on live TV,” says Barnes, “to make these the last votes that were counted or to throw the certification into chaos.”
The slowness of mail delivery over the holidays might have spurred Johnson to attempt to deliver the documents in person to Pence on Jan. 16 but did not arrive at the National Archives until Jan. Wisconsin’s fake electors did not include any such caveat, and Hitt signed a cover letter accompanying the false electoral ballots as “Chairperson, Electoral College of Wisconsin.” Complaint+Exhibit+GĪ registered mail envelope containing Wisconsin’s fake electoral votes, with a return address from the “Chairperson, Electoral College of Wisconsin” and the address of the Wisconsin Republican Party headquarters, 148 East Johnson Street, is stamped with a tracking number that indicates that they were mailed on Dec. Of the seven states won by Biden in which Trump supporters sent their own fake slates of electors to Congress - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - only two, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, added the caveat that the Trump electors should only be counted in the event of a disputed election. “If he and other electors didn’t want these to be counted they shouldn’t have mailed them off to Congress,” she says of Hitt. Mel Barnes, an attorney with Law Forward, a progressive legal firm that has filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin’s 10 fake electors, is skeptical of the claim that the Wisconsin electors did not intend for their votes to be counted on Jan. So that would have been using our electors in ways that we weren’t told about, and we wouldn’t have supported,” Hitt said of the pressure campaign that used the dual slates of electors in the seven states as grounds to try to stop certification of Biden’s win. “I was told that these would only count if a court ruled in our favor.
Hitt, who stepped down as party chair in July 2021, testified that he was unaware his fake electoral vote would be sent to Washington. The committee also aired video testimony Tuesday from Andrew Hitt, the former chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party and one of the fake electors who cast the ballots for Trump. They’re gonna call one of us to tell us just what the hell is going on.” House committee hearing video of text message from Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party| Screenshot 4 at 9:02 p.m.: “Freaking trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate President. Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party, wrote in a text message on Jan. House committee hearing video of text messages between Johnson and Pence staffers | ScreenshotĪnother text message released by the House committee Tuesday showed Wisconsin Republicans scrambling to respond to Trump supporters’ demands that the fake electoral ballots be sent to Washington in time for the certification. “Do not give that to him,” responds Hodgson.
“Alternate slate of electors for MI and WI because archivist didn’t receive them,” Riley replies.
“Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise,” Johnson staffer Sean Riley wrote to Pence staffer Chris Hodgson at 12:17 on Jan. At the House select committee hearing on Tuesday, committee members shared a text message chain that shows Johnson’s chief of staff attempting to arrange for Johnson to hand over the false ballots from Wisconsin and Michigan three weeks later when the real electoral votes were to be counted and Biden’s victory certified. 14 to cast fraudulent Electoral College ballots for Trump. Wisconsin was one of seven states won by President Joe Biden where groups of Republicans met in secret on Dec. Ron Johnson and then-Vice President Mike Pence show that Johnson tried to hand over fake electoral ballots for Donald Trump from Wisconsin and Michigan to Pence ahead of the certification of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. Text messages between staff members for Wisconsin Republican Sen.
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