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Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and more than a dozen Trump allies indicted in Arizona for fake elector plot [Video]

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A grand jury indicted 11 Arizona Republicans and seven others for their role in an alleged scheme to keep Donald Trump in the White House by falsely certifying the state’s 2020 election results as a Trump win.

The indictment accuses the group of trying to prevent “the lawful transfer of the presidency of the United States, keeping President Donald J. Trump in office against the will of Arizona voters, and depriving Arizona voters of their right to vote and have their votes counted.”

According to the indictment, one month after the election, 11 Trump-supporting Republicans convened at the state’s GOP headquarters in Phoenix to sign certificates claiming the state’s electoral college votes.

“We conducted a thorough and professional investigation over the past 13 months into the fake electors scheme in our state,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in …

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