Arizonans may help get Trump arrested … in Georgia

The Washington Post recently reported that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia may rely in part on prosecutors proving a similar pattern of behavior in other states.

The theory revolves around work done by a couple of firms hired to try to prove Trump had won, but whose findings were never released because they could not do so.

Willis is interested in the work the firms did in Georgia and other states.

What that means, potentially, is that the most vilified Republicans in Arizona may soon be heroes of a sort … in Georgia.

Arizona Republicans who put country over party

For example, the Georgia prosecutor might want to know all about the pressure exerted on former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers by Trump’s minions.

A staunch Republican, Bowers refused to ignore his oath, abandon the law and the Constitution in order to void the decision of Arizona voters and declare Trump the winner in our state.

In resisting the pressure Bowers said, “I was trying to send a definitive message: This is hogwash. Taking away the fundamental right to vote, the idea that the legislature could nullify your elections, that’s not conservative. That’s fascist. And I am not a fascist.”

Also standing fast were Republican Maricopa County Supervisors Clint Hickman, Jack Sellers and Bill Gates, and Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, all of whom refused to be bullied into abandoning their oaths.

All of whom put state and country over party. (What a concept.)

Then there were the fake electors, who put party over country

Not long ago it was reported that eight Republican fake electors in Georgia had accepted immunity deals from Willis.

Supposedly, they’re cooperating with prosecutors.

We had a similar slate of fake electors here, led by former Arizona Republican Party Chari Kelli Ward. Their goal was the replace the state’s 11 presidential electors, committed by the vote to go for Biden, with fake Trump electors.

If Willis is out to prove a pattern of election tampering in states outside of Georgia, what happened in Arizona is a good match.

How prosecutors in Georgia could be heroes in Arizona

Or, as Morgan Cloud, a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta and expert on Georgia’s state’s RICO law put it in the Washington Post, “For example, acts to obstruct justice committed in Arizona might be relevant if the goal of the enterprise, of the racketeering activity, was to overturn the 2020 presidential election nationally, as well as in Georgia.”

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said earlier that she would be reaching out to federal officials concerning Arizona’s fake electors.

I’m sure she’s keeping tabs on Willis’ case as well, looking for ways how it might assist her in any effort to hold those who tried to upend our election results criminally responsible.

Which means, potentially, is that the most vilified politicians in Georgia may soon be heroes of a sort … in Arizona.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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