Saturday, 5 June 2021 (YJC) _ Emails obtained by American Oversight show how Trump and Giuliani pushed officials to act and how audit came to be set up.
As Donald Trump digested news of his two-year suspension from Facebook for inciting the Capitol attack, emails were released in which the Republican president of the Arizona state senate said Trump called her after his election defeat last year, to thank her “for pushing to prove any fraud”.
The emails add to understanding of the evolution of Trump’s “big lie”, that his defeat by Joe Biden was the result of mass electoral fraud, and how it fuelled the deadly assault on Congress on 6 January.
The Arizona emails were obtained by American Oversight, a legal watchdog, via a Freedom of Information request. They showed how Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, pushed officials to act and how a controversial election audit in Arizona’s most populous county came to be set up.
Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia are prominent among states which produced Biden victories Trump and his supporters insist won by fraud. They were not.
Outside the White House in Washington on 6 January, Trump told supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the Capitol, where the election result was being confirmed. A mob stormed the building, some looking for lawmakers including Vice-President Mike Pence to capture and possibly kill.
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