AZ AG’s office investigates Trump’s alleged election interference 'well after Biden's inauguration': report
As ex-President Donald Trump faces two trials in criminal cases related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Arizona officials are investigating the 2024 MAGA hopeful's attempt to interfere with the election "well after [President Joe] Biden's inauguration" and into 2022, Rolling Stone exclusively reports.
Per Rolling Stone, "two people with knowledge of the situation" told the publication that prosecutors with the the state attorney's general office are conducting the probe.
"If agents of the attorney general's office are asking questions about events that took place after the substantive event — the actual day in which they put their pen to paper and sign off as fake electors — it is, in my mind, a possibility that they are investigating what, if any, conspiracy may have existed after the substantive offense took place, if they believe that a substantive offense took place," ex-U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton said.
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According to the report, "The sources say that investigators have asked about a 2022 pressure campaign from Trump allies aimed at decertifying the state's electors, and inquired about how deeply the former president and his senior advisers were involved in supporting Arizona Republicans' privately-run 2021 election audit."
Furthermore, Rolling Stone notes:
Two sources tell Rolling Stone that investigators from the attorney general’s office have also inquired about funding that supported the 2021 audit of Maricopa County's vote. The review of vote tallies from Arizona's most populous county aimed to prove massive fraud in the 2020 election. But that effort, led by the now-defunct Florida firm Cyber Ninjas, devolved into a farce, featuring a baseless, conspiracy-fueled hunt for bamboo fibers. When the group announced the results of its audit in September 2021, they showed Biden won the county by a slightly larger margin than originally reported.
The report notes that "sources say officials have interviewed individuals with intimate knowledge of internal Trumpworld discussions, and solicited and reviewed documents circulated by Trump lieutenants and local allies related to those later efforts."
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