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Report: Justice Dept. to investigate Republicans who sent fake Trump electors to Congress – Daily Montanan

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Date: 2022-01-27 00:00:00

The United States Department of Justice has launched an investigation in an apparent attempt by Republicans in seven battleground states won by President Joe Biden in 2020 to allegedly subvert the election results by sending falsified slates of electors for ex-President Donald Trump to Congress, according to a published report.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told CNN that the Justice Department had started investigating what she described “fraudulent elector certifications,” The Guardian reported Wednesday.

Monaco said the DOJ had received referrals on the matter, and that “our prosecutors are looking at those.”

“We are going to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead to address conduct of any kind and at any level that is part of an assault on our democracy,” Monaco said, according to The Guardian.

According to The Guardian, bogus slates of Trump electors were sent to Congress by seven states that Biden won in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Two states, New Mexico and Pennsylvania – added a caveat that the Trump electors should only be counted in the event of a disputed election, The Guardian reported.

The five remaining states sent signed statements to Washington that gave the appearance that Trump had won, even though evidence showed Biden had emerged as the winner, the Guardian reported.

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