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| quote: David Shafer, former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and one of the 19 defendants in the Georgia election interference case, claimed in a court filing that he and the other Republican electors who tried to falsely certify Donald Trump as the winner in Georgia were acting at the former president's behest.
Why it matters: As defendants in the sprawling case begin to turn themselves in ahead of the Friday deadline, Shafer's position signals that some may be poised to turn on the former president.
State of play: "Mr. Shafer and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials," Shafer's lawyers wrote in the court filing Monday.
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/...a-fake-elector-trump
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| I don't know if Shafer is a flip. He says he acted at Trump's direction ... that doesn't say anything about whether Trump was acting lawfully or unlawfully. |
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| quote: just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington ...
He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony”
Because of course. There's a lesson in here, but I think not that many people are paying attention to. |
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