Trump, Giuliani and Meadows revealed as 'unindicted co-conspirators' in MI investigation

One of the investigators in the Michigan attorney general's ongoing criminal probe into the Mitten State's Republican "fake electors" announced a major revelation during a court hearing on Wednesday.

ABC News reported that during a preliminary hearing in the state's investigation into 16 Republicans who allegedly submitted falsified documents stating that they were presidential electors following the 2020 presidential election, the identities of several "unindicted co-conspirators" were made public. Howard Shock, who is a special agent in Attorney General Dana Nessel's office, said that several high-profile GOP leaders were part of the alleged conspiracy to overturn Michigan's election results.

Duane Silverthorn, who is an attorney representing one of the defendants, reportedly asked Shock if one of the unindicted co-conspirators was "former President Donald Trump," with Shock responding, "yes."

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Other prominent co-conspirators Shock named include former New York City mayor and ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Trump election attorney Jenna Ellis. ABC reported that while Nessel's office has dismissed charges against one of the 16 initially ensnared in the investigation, the probe is still ongoing for the other 15 members of the alleged conspiracy.

Michigan is just one of several states in which so-called "fake electors" attempted to present themselves as the legitimate presidential electors from their respective state in order to attempt to switch Electoral College votes that President Joe Biden won fairly to Trump. Other states where fake electors are being investigated include Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Lawfare reported earlier this week that while Michigan and Nevada have officially confirmed ongoing criminal investigations into fake electors, there could potentially be criminal repercussions for alleged participants in both Arizona and Wisconsin as well. the New Mexico and Pennsylvania investigations are unlikely to yield criminal indictments, according to Lawfare correspondents Hunter Evans, Adam George, Quinta Jurecic and Emma Plankey.

"As described by the House’s select committee on Jan. 6 and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president in Washington, D.C., the effort involved a plan to flip the Electoral College vote to Trump by putting forward 'alternate slates' of electors claiming a Trump victory in states won by President-Elect Joe Biden," they wrote, adding that in some cases fake electors had "guidance and encouragement from the Trump campaign."

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According to the "Eastman Memo" — drafted by now-disbarred pro-Trump attorney John Eastman — the alternate slates of fake electors were to be submitted to Congress along with the proper slates of Democratic electors representing states Biden won in November of 2020. Then-Vice President Mike Pence would then declare those states' Electoral College counts to be in dispute, with the math from the remaining, undisputed states in Trump's favor. Pence would have at that point declared Trump the winner of the 2020 election, prompting outrage from the U.S. Senate.

At that point, Eastman suggested that the election would then be determined by the House of Representatives, with each state's congressional delegation having one vote apiece (California's 50+ member delegation would have the same number of votes as Wyoming's one-member delegation). Trump would have been declared the winner in that scenario as well, as Republicans had a slight advantage over Democrats in state delegation control.

Michigan's fake elector investigation is being prosecuted with the help of former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who has testified repeatedly about the details of the plot in multiple states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New Mexico.

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Click here to read ABC's full report.