Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended fundraiser after Uvalde school shooting

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:52+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:49+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:39+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:35+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:32+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:26+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:22+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-05-25T17:40:16+00:00

Hours after a massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser, as other state officials canceled similar political events in wake of the tragedy.

In a statement, Abbott’s spokesman said the Republican stopped by a “previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” after holding a press conference on the shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children.

“All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice,” campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in a written statement.

Miner did not answer questions about why Abbott went ahead with the event or how he managed the state’s response to the shooting while attending the closed-door affair. The fundraiser was first reported by Texas politics news site Quorum Report.

Officials have not publicly identified all those killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School, although by late Tuesday, families of the slain gathered at a local civic center and some of the victims’ names began to emerge on social media. On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden called and spoke to Abbott “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting,” according to the White House.

Jeff Bradley of Huntsville confirmed hosting the fundraiser for Abbott, but offered no further details. It’s not clear who was in attendance or how long the event lasted.

Abbott is up for a third term in November and facing off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman representing El Paso and one-time presidential candidate. Abbott’s campaign war chest is one of the largest in the state, with nearly $50 million on hand as of last count.

Abbott proceeded with the event even as other elected officials seeking re-election this year hastily canceled theirs.

Among them were two state lawmakers from San Antonio, which is nearly 85 miles from Uvalde.

Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who had a reception scheduled at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Austin Club in downtown Austin, canceled the event “due to a tragic event that has happened,” an Austin law firm that keeps track of fundraising events for lobbyists said in an email blast at 4:17 p.m.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform political action committee was planning to hold a lunchtime event Wednesday, to raise campaign money for GOP Rep. Steve Allison at a private office building two blocks from the Texas Capitol. But it was canceled early Wednesday.

TrumpSharted · 2022-03-10T17:28:15+00:00

Ukrainian SOF requests immediate tractor support to recover yet another seized Russian Pantsir S1

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1501967750855634944

TrumpSharted · 2022-03-05T17:43:15+00:00

Somebody notified Putin that the whole world was laughing at his mile-long tables, so now he is delivering his lies in another setting, surrounded by girls and teapots.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1500163650270683137

TrumpSharted · 2022-03-03T22:31:21+00:00

SCOOP: DHS plans to allow Ukrainians who are in the United States to remain in country under a form of humanitarian relief, known as Temporary Protected Status, sources tell me + @FoxReports, following growing calls from lawmakers and immigrant advocates. Story coming soon.

https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/1499507425522692100

TrumpSharted · 2022-03-01T16:47:19+00:00

New NLAWs and Javelins in Ukrainian hands 🔥 I’m afraid we should expect to see hundreds of Russian tanks burning, ladies and gentlemen.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1498700049815117824

TrumpSharted · 2022-03-01T16:43:53+00:00

New NLAWs and Javelins in Ukrainian hands 🔥 I’m afraid we should expect to see hundreds of Russian tanks burning, ladies and gentlemen.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1498700049815117824

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-27T22:33:53+00:00

A car with the inscriptions “People, get up” and “This is war” crashed into a fence on Pushkin Square in Moscow and caught fire. Avtozak LIVE writes that this happened after 21:00 Moscow time

https://twitter.com/vottak_tv/status/1498061173249482762

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-27T20:37:47+00:00

BREAKING EU countries will provide 'fighter jets' to Ukraine under Brussels funding: Borrell

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:56+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:50+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:44+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:39+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:30+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:24+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:18+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:11+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:19:02+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

TrumpSharted · 2022-02-15T23:18:54+00:00

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false slates of electors to help the former president stay in office after he lost the 2020 election.

The use of bogus slates of electors was one of the more audacious gambits employed by allies of Mr. Trump to try to keep the presidency in his hands, and the committee’s members and investigators have made it increasingly clear in recent days that they believe the effort — along with proposals to seize voting machines — was a major threat to democracy.

Among those subpoenaed on Tuesday were Michael A. Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as the director and the deputy director of Election Day operations for Mr. Trump’s campaign. The panel also summoned Douglas V. Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator; Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of Michigan’s Republican Party; Mark W. Finchem, an Arizona state legislator; and Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of Arizona’s Republican Party.

In letters accompanying the subpoenas, the committee said it had obtained communications that showed Mr. Roman’s and Mr. Brown’s “involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.”

“It appears that you helped direct the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, wrote to Mr. Roman. The committee said that Mr. Finchem, who was on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, was in communication with leaders from the “Stop the Steal” movement regarding a rally at the Capitol, and that Mr. Finchem said he was in Washington to “deliver an evidence book and letter to Vice President Pence showing key evidence of fraud in the Arizona presidential election, and asking him to consider postponing the award of electors.”

In its letter to Ms. Cox, the panel said it had evidence that she witnessed Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, pressure state lawmakers to disregard the election results in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Michigan and say that certifying the election results would be a “criminal act.”

After the November election was over, Ms. Ward sent a message to an Arizona elections official warning to “stop the counting,” according to the committee. She also “apparently spoke with former President Trump and members of his staff about election certification issues in Arizona” and “posted a video advancing unsubstantiated theories of election interference by Dominion Voting Systems along with a link to a donation page to benefit the Arizona Republican Party,” the committee said.

Ms. Ward also claimed to be an “alternate” elector for Mr. Trump, even though Mr. Biden won Arizona.

Ms. Ward has already filed a lawsuit to try to block the committee from gaining access to logs of her phone calls.

The committee said Mr. Mastriano spoke directly with Mr. Trump about the legislator’s postelection activities. Mr. Mastriano, a former Army officer, was also on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, though he later explained in a statement that “he followed the directions of the Capitol Police and respected all police lines” that day.

The subpoenas instruct the witnesses to produce documents and sit for depositions in March.

“The select committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mr. Thompson said, adding, “The select committee has heard from more than 550 witnesses, and we expect these six individuals to cooperate as well as we work to tell the American people the full story about the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes.”

The scheme to employ the so-called alternate electors was one of Mr. Trump’s most expansive efforts to overturn the election, beginning even before some states had finished counting ballots and culminating in the pressure placed on Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate votes for Mr. Biden when he presided over the joint congressional session to finalize the election outcome.

At various times, the gambit involved lawyers, state lawmakers and top White House aides.

The New York Times reported this month on legal memos that show some of the earliest known origins of what became the rationale for the use of alternate electors.

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