Fake GOP electors may flip in Trump election interference case: Georgia prosecutor

Some bogus Republican electors reportedly may flip and testify for the prosecution in the Georgia 2020 election interference investigation of former President Donald Trump.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said an unnamed number of fake electors have been offered immunity in exchange for testimony about the alleged scheme to overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the Peach State, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday.

It’s unclear if any of the electors plan to accept the immunity deal, which could mark a major breakthrough in the probe. Willis had said two months ago that decisions on charging Trump or others were “imminent.”

The revelation came as Willis pushed a judge overseeing the probe to oust a defense lawyer for failing to tell several of the fake electors about the immunity offer when it was made months ago.

Lawyer Kimberly Burroughs represents 10 of the electors, but prosecutors say individual electors have clashing legal interests.

“It is unfathomable how Ms. Debrow can offer competent and adequate counsel,” the motion said. “(A)ny claim of all 10 of her clients being similarly situated has gone out the window.”

A judge already ordered Debrow and a former co-counsel to choose between representing the 10 fake electors or Georgia GOP chief David Schaffer because they were “substantially differently situated.”

It’s unclear if the new revelations about the fake electors concern Schaffer or some other issue in the case.

Debrow’s former co-counsel, who chose to represent Schaffer while Debrow stuck with the other 10, denied Willis’ claims.

A special grand jury spent nearly two years investigating Trump’s plot to flip President Biden’s win in Georgia, including his caught-on-tape demand that election officials “find” just enough votes for him to win.

Willis later widened the probe to include other efforts by Team Trump to overturn his loss, including engineering the appointment of the alternate slate of fake electors that he hoped would muddy the waters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 certification of Biden’s victory.

When the scheme collapsed in Georgia and other battleground states, Trump called for an angry protest and urged his loyal followers to “fight like hell” to keep him in the White House. They stormed the Capitol in an effort to physically prevent Congress from doing its constitutional duty.

The Georgia case is not related to Trump’s historic criminal indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on charges tied to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.

It also has no known tie to the probe by federal special counsel Jack Smith into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents he took after leaving the White House.

The Georgia case does overlap with Smith’s investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, which includes Trump’s larger effort to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.