As defendants in the far-reaching indictment begin to surrender to authorities ahead of the Friday deadline, “Shafer’s position signals that some may be poised to turn on the former president,” Axios reports.
“Mr. Shafer and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials,” lawyers for the former GOP chairman wrote in the filing.
“Attorneys for the President and Mr. Shafer specifically instructed Mr. Shafer, verbally and in writing, that the Republican electors’ meeting and casting their ballots on December 14, 2020 was consistent with counsels’ advice and was necessary to preserve the presidential election contest,” they added.
tldr: Rats are leaving the sinking ship. Another person flips on Trump and his attorney’s at the heart of the coup attempt.
He’s implicating Trump to try to get to a federal court in an effort to find more sympathetic jurors. Everyone is fending for themselves and doesn’t want to be there last one holding the bag.
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