In Trump Electors Investigation, Justice Dept. Issues More Subpoenas - The New York Times

Federal prosecutors sought information from two men who had worked on behalf of the Trump campaign and a third who signed up as a Trump elector in Georgia, a state won by President Biden.

Trump and his allies to create slates of so-called fake electors in a bid to keep Mr.

Trump in power during the 2020 election, as federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas on Wednesday to at least four people connected to the plan.

The fake elector plan is the focus of one of two known prongs of the Justice Department’s broad grand jury investigation of Mr.

It also comes less than a month after an earlier round of grand jury subpoenas revealed that prosecutors were seeking information on any role that a group of pro-Trump lawyers might have played in the fake elector effort.

The subpoenas, issued by a grand jury sitting in Washington, have also sought records and information about other pro-Trump figures like Bernard B.

Trump’s wide-ranging pressure campaign to persuade state officials to help him stay in office.

The first subpoenas in the fake elector inquiry were largely sent to people in key swing states who almost took part in the plan but eventually did not for various reasons.

This new round of subpoenas appears to be the first time that Trump campaign officials were brought into the investigation, marking a small but potentially significant step closer to Mr.

The plan to create pro-Trump electors in states won by Mr.

It involved lawyers, state officials, White House and campaign aides, and members of Congress.

Trump and his allies sought to promote baseless assertions of widespread election fraud in key swing states and persuade state officials to reverse their certification of Mr.

Trump more time to pursue his baseless claims of fraud or potentially to send the election to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would get a single vote.