Lawyer denies charges in Trump ‘fake electors’ case in Arizona

John Eastman is the first of 18 people charged in the battleground state to appear in court over the scheme to empanel fake electors to support their favoured candidate. — Reuters picLOS ANGELES, May 18 — A lawyer who was the architect of a plan to subvert the 2020 election and return Donald Trump to the White House denied all charges against him when he appeared in an Arizona court Friday.

Others include Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one-time Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Jenna Ellis and campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn.If he is convicted at a trial currently set for October, the crimes could entail prison time.“I had zero communications with any of the electors in Arizona,” he said. “Zero involvement with any of the litigation or the legislative hearings in Arizona.

Under the US electoral college system, each state appoints electors to represent the candidate who won the most votes in the presidential poll. Arizona is the fourth state to seek charges against people who tried to form an alternative slate of electors, after Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada.

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