The email underscores the Trump campaign’s role in creating false election documents as a way to supplant Biden’s win in Georgia. Source: "Please, at no point should you mention anything to do with Presidential Electors or speak to media
Highlights
- The email is part of an intensifying Justice Department investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in several swing states.
- It was sent by Trump’s election day operations lead in Georgia on December 13, 2020, 18 hours before the group of alternate electors gathered at the Georgia State Capitol.
- The email underscores the Trump campaign’s role in creating false election documents as a way to supplant Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.
- It is unclear if the individuals who received Sinners’ directions even read the email or followed its calls for secrecy, one person familiar with it told CNN.
- The federal criminal investigation into electors in Georgia and at least one other state has grown in seriousness.