Fake Elector Struggles To Explain Role In Scheme To Submit False Election Papers

so this is interesting we've got late breaking news tonight out of the great state of arizona which never disappoints in news terms all right i was speaking earlier in the show tonight about a story that we've been on for a while now the story of republicans appearing to have forged fake documents after the 2020 election putting themselves forward officially as if they were the real electors from their states when in fact they were not uh in each of the five states that we've been able to find the documents from uh in michigan wisconsin georgia nevada and arizona republicans filed these fake forged documents claiming that those states had actually picked trump electors who were casting the state's electoral college votes for trump when in fact the real electors from those states were biden electors republicans forged these documents they submitted them we believe both to congress and to the national archives to try to pass them off as the real deal we've been trying to get a hold of some of these people who signed their names to these forged documents to learn more about this apparent coordinated scheme particularly since we noticed that all of the forgeries from those five states appear to be very similar similar enough that it looks like they were part of a coordinated multi-state effort we're still working on our part of that but tonight nbc's great station in phoenix and a reporter from the arizona republic caught up with one of the people who signed on to this document in arizona his name is jake hoffman he's a republican state representative in arizona you can see here that's his kind of amazing signature on the forged fake elector form from arizona a cameraman from kpnx and an arizona republic reporter named richard ruales caught up with mr hoffman today and this is what happened when bram wants to ask a real question happy to have a conversation with them okay thank you sir richard i had a couple people today so in unprecedented times unprecedented action is occurred there is no case law there's no precedent that exists as to whether or not a an election that is currently being litigated in the courts has due standing which is why we felt it appropriate to provide congress and the vice president with uh dueling opinions did you have direction from anybody in doing this was it you eleven yourself to doing this or did someone give you advice on the matter in which you can do it so i'm simply i was one of the electors right i'm not in charge of the elector so you would how did you hear about you you wouldn't drew here you would need to ask them did you hear that how did you hear about the plan was told to be something that you would need to ask the party chair but you're the you're the person who received the call you showed up right how did you know to show up that day so as i said you can go ahead and ask the party chair the logistics of it asking how you got a phone call to go with someone you're welcome to talk to them about this do you not know how you arrived at a place thank you i i appreciate your time i know how you got a call have a great one the other questions and a reporter from the arizona republic there um richard ruales um catching up with uh that man who signed that forged document again the camerawork there from kpnx uh the nbc affiliate in in phoenix i'm supposed to call the party chair to ask her how you got a phone call to go somewhere do you not know how you arrived at a place do you really not know how you got a call we're still working on this story but now lots of other people are too we're going to get to the bottom of this [Music] you

Channel: MSNBC

Views: 1,082,460

Keywords: Rachel Maddow, arizona, arizona elector, elector papers, fake electors, 2020 election, election audit, arizona election, trump, msnbc, us news, news

Id: lJx-m6v4bTU

Length: 3min 52sec (232 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 12 2022

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I think this is single handedly the most underreported story right now.

This was objectively a legit coup attempt!!