January 6 Committee says Sen. Mike Lee worked to have states send alternate electors for Trump; Utah woman pleads guilty to illegally entering Capitol
SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utahns are discussed in the latest documents from the January 6 Committee — one of whom the committee says worked to overturn the 2020 election and another who pleaded guilty to a crime.
“Although Senator Lee had spent a month encouraging the idea of having State legislatures endorse competing electors for Trump,” the report says, “he grew alarmed as it became clear that the Trump team wanted the fake electors’ votes to be considered on January 6th even without authorization from any State government body.”
In text messages, reported earlier by CNN, Lee wrote that he’d been working “14 hours a day” to find a path for Trump he could “persuasively defend.”“There is absolutely nothing to the idea that I would have ever supported, ever did support the fake electors plot,” Lee said during his only general election debate as he ran for re-election this fall. “Nothing.
As for Buhler, she spoke to the committee on Feb. 28 of this year. She voted for Trump but said she was not politically active for him. Her social media exposure to election falsehoods appears to have been limited to some Youtube videos a few days before the insurrection, according to her testimony. She added, “I have never been to Washington, D.C. before, and I thought this would be a good time to go. And I just wanted to be part of the group.”The transcript shows committee members pressing Buhler on whether she wanted to stop Congress from certifying the election for Biden. After saying that wasn’t necessarily her aim, Buhler’s attorney, former U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman, offered an explanation.
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