Hi there, everyone. It's Four Park in the East, a special show today, a special focus on

our part on one aspect of the Trump coup plot. They came together rather quietly and under

the radar at the time. Through dry legal memos and endless emails, it's changed between

lawyers, closed door meetings involving dozens of lawyers, activists, and campaign officials.

Which right now, at this hour, just might be the single biggest front of legal exposure

for the disgraced ex-president and members of his intermo circle. We are talking about

those slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. They served as the spark for the

entire rest of the plan to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's electoral college

victory, as conceived by Johnny Smith. And from the very beginning, from when the plan

was first conceived, just days after the November election, attorneys for the Trump campaign

were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was, how should

we put it? Fake. New York Times reported on emails between Trump lawyers that say this,

quote, 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 and start arguing that the fake vote

should be counted. That was an email from Jack Willenchick, a Phoenix-based lawyer who

helped organize the pro-Trump electors in Arizona. He wrote that on December 8, 2020 in an email

to Boris Epstein, an advisor for the Trump campaign. In a follow-up email, the same guy, Mr. Willenchick,

wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. He added a

smiley face emoji as one does. The plan quickly gathered steam, though, as the Trump campaign

lost case after case after case, although it up to 16 defeats in court, and as efforts by Rudy

Giuliani to get state legislatures to intervene in the election fell flat. failed. Why does

a Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6th Select Committee that the fake electors came up in

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