A fake Wisconsin elector said that he was tricked into signing false documents that claimed former United States President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
A month after the presidential election in 2020, Democratic and Republican electors who represented the candidate who won the popular vote in their states gathered to formally cast electoral votes for the president.
However, in seven states that Democrat Joe Biden won, Republican electors got together and cast fake votes for Trump. They have since become known to be "fake electors" and federal prosecutors said that they were part of efforts to overturn the presidential race.
They added that the entire thing was orchestrated by pro-Trump attorneys who had the support of the former president himself. Authorities have filed state criminal charges against fake electors in Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.
On the other hand, the fake electors in Wisconsin have not been charged and a few weeks ago, one of them, identified as Andrew Hitt, agreed to explain how he said he and others were tricked by the Trump campaign, as per CBS News.
Hitt, who is an attorney and former chairman of the state Republican Party, said that he worked tirelessly for the former president. He added that more often than not, phone calls would start at around six in the morning and would end at around 10:30 in the evening.
He was often singled out by the former president during rallies in Wisconsin. However, the Republican businessman did not win the state in the 2020 election, losing to his rival, Biden by roughly 20,700 votes.
The Trump campaign appealed the vote, challenging more than 200,000 absentee ballots on technical grounds in two Democratic counties. Rudy Giuliani previously said that Trump won Wisconsin by a good margin if you only count the lawful votes. Hitt said that the remarks were false.
Tricked Into Signing False Documents
Hitt said that he and other electors were told that the documents they signed, claiming the former president's win in Wisconsin, were meaningless unless a court ruled that they had meaning, according to Axios.
He argued that if he did not sign the false documents, and the court threw out the contested votes, it would have been solely his fault that the former president lost the state. He emphasized that at the time, he was absolutely scared of the situation.
Hitt was also asked if he was scared of Trump supporters in his state and he answered that it was not "a safe time." He argued that if his lawyer was right, the whole reason that the former president lost Wisconsin was because of him, which caused him to be scared to death.
The 10 Wisconsin GOP electors met at the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign the document under the supervision of Kenneth Chesebro. The latter is the Trump campaign lawyer that federal special counsel Jack Smith described as the "architect" of the fake elector scheme.
On that same day, the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the Trump campaign's suit in a 4-3 ruling. Hitt argued that he went forward with the signing of the document anyway in case the high court overturned the decision, said The Hill.
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