Requiem for a Scandal
By Byron York
Wednesday, December 03 2025
The 'fake electors' prosecution was BS from the beginning.
Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, I wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the anti-Trump world. It had to do with a novel theory of the 2020 presidential election dispute.
Here's the short version: Trump supporters in a few states – Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, and New Mexico – were so brazen that in the days before Dec. 14, 2020, when the Electoral College voted to confirm [former President] Joe Biden's victory, they actually forged documents falsely purporting to be Electoral College results for [President Donald] Trump and sent them to the appropriate authorities in Washington and in their home states. They then planned to use the forgeries to steal the election on Jan. 6, 2021. All the while, they hoped no one would notice.
It was a crazy theory, for a number of reasons discussed below. But the notion of so-called "fake electors" would not only consume Resistance World but would spread among Democratic officials in the justice system and become a key part of the anti-Trump indictments of 2023 and 2024.
Now it has all fallen apart. With the recent withdrawal of the case originally brought by the disgraced prosecutor Fani Willis in Georgia, the theory that sparked so much excitement on the anti-Trump fringe is finally dead. What is remarkable is that the glaring flaws in the "fake electors" theory were obvious all along. It just took this long for the wheels of justice to turn.
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