New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party's scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020.
New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party's scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
McDonald and DeGraffenreid invoked Fifth Amendment protection hundreds of times in their separate interviews with the Jan. 6 committee, refusing to answer questions about their involvement and the extent to which Trump's top allies had helped in orchestrating the plot. "They want full attack mode," McDonald later wrote in another text message describing that call."We're gonna have a war room meeting in about an hour."
The planning was extensive, the transcripts show, and began as early as four days before the election, when state party officials began discussing whether Nevada's Republican secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, would sign off on the alternate slate of electors. Meanwhile, the day before the slate of fake electors met, the transcripts show McDonald grew increasingly frustrated with the RNC's direction over how to conduct the certificate signing. It appeared that he had gone back and forth with the RNC about logistics of the ceremony: the location, how they would publicize it and what they would say in their speeches.
"He's very concerned RNC will cut cord if it looks bad and steal credit if we do well," Meehan messaged.Ultimately, the Nevada Republican Party would press forward, and after nearly two months of planning, McDonald, DeGraffenreid and the other fake electors gathered outside the Capitol building in Carson City for a ceremony.
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