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Former Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt was nominated to be an elector if former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020, but after Trump lost, Hitt and nine other Republican electors met at the state capitol and signed documents falsely claiming Trump won.
Hitt said lawyers told him the documents they were signing were meaningless unless Trump's legal team won its lawsuit seeking to dismiss over 200,000 votes in two Democratic counties.
Hitt said he was advised that if a court ruled in Trump's favor and he and the other Republicans did not meet and sign the documents on Dec. 14, 2020 — when the Democratic electors were required to meet to cast their votes for President Biden — he would be responsible for Trump forfeiting Wisconsin.
"It was not a safe time," he said. "If my lawyer is right, and the whole reason Trump loses Wisconsin is because of me, I would be scared to death."
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Hitt said he got a call from someone with the Republican National Committee days before Evers certified the state's vote. He said he was asked for a list of Republican electors in Wisconsin, which Hitt said made him suspicious.
"I was already concerned that they were going to try to say that the Democratic electors were not proper in Wisconsin because of fraud," Hitt said.
But Hitt said he didn't believe there had been widespread fraud in the state.
Hitt said he was advised by the state GOP's outside legal counsel on Dec. 4, 2020, to gather the other Republican electors at the Capitol on Dec. 14 and, as a contingency, sign a document claiming they were "the duly elected and qualified Electors for President" for Wisconsin.
"In case a court would overrule the election here in Wisconsin," Hitt said he was told.
On the morning of Dec. 14, in a narrow 4-3 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected the Trump campaign's attempt to throw out votes cast in the two Democratic counties. Hitt said he and the other fake Wisconsin electors met anyway to sign documents falsely claiming Trump won, because he had been told the Trump campaign was still planning to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Hitt said lawyers told him the documents they were signing were meaningless unless Trump's legal team won its lawsuit seeking to dismiss over 200,000 votes in two Democratic counties.
Hitt said he was advised that if a court ruled in Trump's favor and he and the other Republicans did not meet and sign the documents on Dec. 14, 2020 — when the Democratic electors were required to meet to cast their votes for President Biden — he would be responsible for Trump forfeiting Wisconsin.
"It was not a safe time," he said. "If my lawyer is right, and the whole reason Trump loses Wisconsin is because of me, I would be scared to death."
...
Hitt said he got a call from someone with the Republican National Committee days before Evers certified the state's vote. He said he was asked for a list of Republican electors in Wisconsin, which Hitt said made him suspicious.
"I was already concerned that they were going to try to say that the Democratic electors were not proper in Wisconsin because of fraud," Hitt said.
But Hitt said he didn't believe there had been widespread fraud in the state.
Hitt said he was advised by the state GOP's outside legal counsel on Dec. 4, 2020, to gather the other Republican electors at the Capitol on Dec. 14 and, as a contingency, sign a document claiming they were "the duly elected and qualified Electors for President" for Wisconsin.
"In case a court would overrule the election here in Wisconsin," Hitt said he was told.
On the morning of Dec. 14, in a narrow 4-3 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected the Trump campaign's attempt to throw out votes cast in the two Democratic counties. Hitt said he and the other fake Wisconsin electors met anyway to sign documents falsely claiming Trump won, because he had been told the Trump campaign was still planning to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Former Wisconsin Republican Party chair says he was tricked by fake elector plan
Andrew Hitt, a fake elector who signed a phony electoral certificate after the 2020 election, said he was tricked.
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