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What ever happened to the federal investigation of Trump's fake elector scheme?

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The Fake Presidential Electors

Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nestle, told us back in January 2022 that she believed this matter was best investigated and potentially prosecuted at the federal level. The Washington Post has a kind of blockbuster report describing in detail what's been going on inside DOJ since January 6th as fears of seeming partisan or overly aggressive essentially stall big portions of the Justice Department investigation into Trump for more than a year. According to two people familiar with the decision, the Justice Department declined that investigation suggested to them by the Inspector General's office at NARA. They declined to investigating it citing its prosecutor's discretion. Now we know that those things combined together finally got the Justice Department interested in the fake electors plot once again

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