EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona’s AG Seems to Have Followed It Norm Eisen set up the overthrow of 2020 to keep Trump out. And they are still trying to do it again. 1/2
Fred Lucas
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Anonprofit drafted a plan to prosecute backers of Donald Trump under Arizona law nearly a year beforethe state’s Democrat attorney general secured 18 indictments related to Trump’s 2020 campaign.
One of the nonprofit’s founders is a former Obama White House staffer who authored books targeting Trump.
The organization, the States United Democracy Center,provided a 47-page memo to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on July 25, 2023.(attached)
The memo outlined the potential criminal case against Trump associates and made repeated references to “Trump himself” as part of what it called a criminal “false electors scheme.”
Mayes recently said that her prosecutionof former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward—all among 18 Trump associatesindicated—would continue despite Trump’s election to a second term.
Recommendations and Results
The July 2023 memo from the States United Democracy Center called for bringing criminalcharges under Arizona law for forgery, tampering with public records, criminal impersonation, presentation of a false instrument for filing, fraudulent schemes and practices, and conspiracy.
The grand jury indictment this past April included six counts of forgery; two counts of fraudulent schemes and practices; and one count of conspiracy. Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
The organization’s memo singled out individuals as targets of prosecution, including Ward as well as Republican activists who were among an alternate slate of Trump electors that signed certificates in case Arizona’s election result was overturned.
Most, but not all, were indicted in April. But the 2023 memo went on to note “others,” including Trump and then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
“As established in Section II of this memo, Trump campaign staff and advisers drove the scheme and propelled it forward in the key states, including Arizona,” the memo says. “Trump himself sought and obtained Ronna McDaniel’s help in furtherance of the scheme.”
The center’s memo called for more investigation of the “actions, intent, and knowledge” of Trump and others.
The memo also stressed to Mayes, Arizona’s attorney general, thatthe 2020 case was not too old to prosecute.
“Statutes of limitations will not provide a barrier to prosecution, so long as the prosecution is brought within the next four years,” the memo says. “Generally, for crimes classified as class 2 through class 6 felonies, the statute of limitations is seven years. … In any event, the relevant statutes of limitations will not bar a timely prosecution. Nor should concerns about timing—given that several years have elapsed since the scheme—preclude prosecution now. Thorough investigations of complex cases take time.”
Arizona’s previous attorney general was a Republican, and the memo notes: “In addition, the voters of the state of Arizona elected a new attorney general [Mayes] who took office in January 2023. Under these facts, the investigation has been diligent, without undue delay.”
Before issuing its memo, the center enthusiastically posted on the social media platform X aboutMayes’ plans to “ramping up” the investigation of the 2020 election in Arizona.
In August, the organization posted about one of the indicted Trump supporters who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
What Is States United Democracy Center?
The States United Democracy Center was established in 2020 and initially called the Voter Protection Program, according to the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based investigative think tank that monitors nonprofits.
The group was established in anticipation that Trump would lose the 2020 election and challenge the outcome.
One co-founder is Obama White House ethics counsel Norman Eisen, who Barack Obama later appointed as ambassador to the Czech Republic. Eisen was special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment in 2019 over Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president.
A Washington Post column said Eisen was a “critical force in building the case for impeachment” in the House. Trump eventually was acquitted in the Senate.
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Link to doc: https://www.dailysignal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Arizona-False-Electors-Scheme-Memo.pdf)