The emails show the broad outlines of a shifting plan to override the will of voters in battleground states lost by Mr Trump. Others involved in the efforts included lawyers Jenna Ellis and Bruce Marks, and Gary Michael Brown, who was deputy director of the Trump campaign’s election day operations. The Times reported that Mr Epshteyn was “a regular point of contact” for John Eastman, the lawyer who came up with the plan to send fake electors to Congress on 6 January 2021. “His idea is basically that all of us (GA, WI, AZ, PA, etc.) have our electors send in their votes (even though the votes aren’t legal under federal law - because they’re not signed by the Governor) so that members of Congress can fight about whether they should be counted on January 6th,” Mr Wilenchik wrote in the email to Mr Epshteyn.
Mr Wilenchik also outlined a plan from another lawyer working with the campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, to send fake electors for Mr Trump, noting that the plan was not legally sound. He added in a later email that “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes.”
The email was sent to Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for the Trump campaign. “We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes,” wrote Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer who helped organise pro-Trump electors in Arizona, in an email sent on 8 December, 2020, according to the Times.
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