The Republican National Committee is treading into dangerous legal territory, a reality underscored by Tuesday’s House Jan. 6 committee hearing.
The hearing focused heavily on the victims of Trump’s attempt to force state election officials to illegally alter the 2020 results in his favor. But focusing on the victims meant focusing on the fake electors scheme they were instructed to follow, in which Trump’s campaign tried to use fake, pro-Trump Electoral College voters in place of states’ actual votes cast for Joe Biden. We learned the RNC was more intimately involved in that plot than we knew previously, and that could mean a world of trouble for the organization.
Here’s RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel testifying that the RNC was “helping” Trump lawyer John Eastman with the scheme, which a federal judge has already suggested was part of a criminal plot:
This revelation is ripe for more investigation by the Jan. 6 committee. RNC officials who played a role in this fake electors scheme could find themselves on the hook for aiding and abetting an illegal plot to interfere in the election or overthrow the government. And depending on how systematized this relationship was, the organization as a whole could be in trouble also.
The Jan. 6 committee has provided ample evidence to show Trump had no reason to believe he’d actually won the election, and evidence showing the Trump campaign was well aware the fake electors scheme was illegal. I’ve previously written about the potential...
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