RNC's Head of 'Election Integrity' Indicted over Fake Electors Scheme

Christina Bobb, the figure in charge of the Republican National Committee (RNC's) election integrity unit, has been indicted for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of 2020's presidential election.

On Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that 18 people, including Bobb, have been charged with felony offenses including fraud, forgery, and conspiracy in connection with a scheme to falsely declare that Trump had beaten then-candidate Joe Biden in the state in 2020. Trump has not been charged in the Arizona fake elector scheme but is listed as "Unindicted Coconspirator 1" throughout the indictment.

In March, Bobb, a former Trump lawyer and former reporter for One America News Network (OAN), who has been vocal in her denial of the results of the 2020 election, was appointed as the GOP governing body's senior counsel for election integrity.

"I'm honored to join the RNC and thrilled the new leadership is focused on election integrity. I look forward to working to secure our elections and restore confidence in the process," Bobb said in a statement to CNN at the time.

On Wednesday, she was named as part of the indictment alongside other Trump allies in the state where Biden defeated Trump by more than 10,000 votes. Arizona was also among seven states where Republicans are accused of acting as fake electors, allegedly signing documents falsely claiming Trump had won.

Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said to Newsweek: "Another example of Democrats' weaponization of the legal system. Christina Bobb is a former Marine Corps officer, who served our nation and the President with distinction. The Democrat platform for 2024: if you can't beat them, try to throw them in jail."

The indictment described a tweet Bobb published on Dec. 6, 2020, criticizing the Arizona House speaker at the time of using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to close the chamber for a week.

"Sounds like he needs an excuse to give his angry constituents about why he's refusing to call a session and examine the fraud in his state," the tweet stated. "First time it's been closed the whole pandemic."

While this was not mentioned in the indictment, Bobb also wrote a book making baseless claims about the election called Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024.

She also signed a sworn affidavit on Trump's behalf falsely alleging that there were no classified documents at Mar-a-Lago when federal authorities were trying to recover them.

While at OAN, she also promoted claims that the election was rigged and was sued in two cases by the voting technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic over her remarks. OAN and Bobb denied wrongdoing in these cases.

In a video announcing the indictments shared on X, formerly Twitter, Mayes accused the defendants of attempting to undermine the votes cast by Arizona residents.

"We're here because justice demands an answer to the efforts the defendants and other unindicted co-conspirators allegedly took to undermine the will of Arizona's voters during the 2020 presidential election," Mayes said. "Arizona's election was free and fair. The people of Arizona elected President Biden, unwilling to accept this fact that defendants charged by the state grand jury, allegedly schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency. Whatever their reasoning was, the plot to violate the law must be answered for and I was elected to uphold the law of this state."

The attorney general continued: "The scheme had it succeeded would have deprived Arizona's voters of their right to have their votes counted for their chosen president. It effectively would have made their right to vote meaningless."

Aside from Bobb, 10 people were named in the indictment while seven additional names were redacted from records released by Mayes.

The defendants named in the documents include Kelli Ward, former chair of the Arizona Republican Party, and her husband Michael Ward; ex-U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon; two current state senators, Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern; and Tyler Bowyer, the Republican National Committee's Arizona committeeman and chief operating officer of the pro-Trump Turning Point Action organization.

Attorneys Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman are also charged, along with former top state Republicans Greg Safsten and Robert Montgomery, and GOP activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino.