The federal prosecution of Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is on pause until the Supreme Court hears his presidential immunity claims (thankfully on this Thursday!) and rules on them (at some unspecified date). That doesn’t mean his role in the various schemes, including the fake elector scheme, is forgotten in the meantime.
In fact, in Michigan, where 16 individuals were criminally charged last year with felonies for falsely claiming to be the official electors for the state, Trump has been revealed to be one of the unindicted co-conspirators named in the charging documents.
Despite not being charged, it’s one more case in which Trump’s name is connected to serious election crimes.
The felony charges in the case could add up to more than half a century of prison time — if defendants get the maximum — and this revelation makes it officially clear that they did it all in service to Trump. He’s not the only unindicted co-conspirator named, though. Detroit News reported:
“Howard Shock, a special agent for [Attorney General Dana] Nessel, said Trump; Mark Meadows, who was Trump’s chief of staff; and Rudy Giuliani, who was his personal lawyer, are ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in Michigan’s false elector case. That means prosecutors believe they participated, to some extent, in an alleged scheme to commit forgery by creating a false document asserting Trump had won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes when Democrat Joe Biden had won them.”
Six of these individuals, including ex-Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock, are part of hearings this week as the court determines whether there’s enough evidence to go to trial. The state’s Republican party leadership seems prepared to throw Maddock, in particular, under the bus. Bridge Michigan reported:
“Tony Zammit, former communications director for the Michigan GOP, testified that he did not think all the fake electors were ‘necessarily responsible’ and had listened to bad advice from Trump campaign attorney Shawn Flynn.”
“But, he added: ‘I thought Meshawn Maddock might be culpable.'”
What does it all mean for Trump?
Not much, at least directly. He remains unindicted in Michigan, and there’s no indication that’s changing quite yet.
However, it stands as one more case — like the January 6th prosecutions and disbarment of some of his former attorneys — to warn would-be conspirators in the future not only that helping Trump carry out schemes to take power the people don’t intend to give him can result in serious consequences, but that he won’t be rushing to rescue them when they get caught.
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