As former Pres. Trump faces charges related to classified documents, the special counsel's separate probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election presses on.
said the "fake elector" plan, set up in multiple swing states, assembled "groups of individuals in key battleground states and got them to call themselves electors, created phony certificates associated with these fake electors, and then transmitted these certificates to Washington, and to the Congress, to be counted during the joint session of Congress on January 6th."
McDonald appeared before the House Jan. 6 committee but invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions.Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at the Miami International Airport on June 12, 2023, in Miami.The Nevada Independent reported in June of last year that the FBI seized McDonald's phone as part of its investigation in the fake elector scheme, well before the appointment of Smith as special counsel last November.
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