Trump Lawyer Could Spend Rest of Her Life in Prison

Christina Bobb, a former lawyer to Donald Trump, said she could spend the rest of her life in prison following a recent indictment in Arizona.

Bobb, who currently serves as the head of the Republican National Committee's (RNC) election integrity unit, was recently indicted by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in connection to alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Trump.

On Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that 18 people, including Bobb, had been charged with felony offenses, including fraud, forgery and conspiracy, in connection with a scheme to falsely declare that Trump had beaten 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.

Other Trump allies indicted by the Arizona grand jury are former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, who was once mayor of New York City before serving as an attorney for Trump.

Biden, meanwhile, narrowly beat Trump in Arizona in 2020 by less than 11,000 votes.

While appearing on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast this week, Bobb spoke about the recent indictment against her and was asked how many years in prison she could face for the nine felony counts against her.

"Several decades, probably," she said. "Yeah, I assumed it would be the rest of my life in prison."

The indictment against Bobb alleges that from November 3, 2020, to January 6, 2021, she and others co-defendants "falsely made, completed or altered a written instrument and/or offered or presented, whether accepted or not, a forged instrument or one that contained false information, to wit: the second of two certificates of votes for President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Michael Pence, filed by the Arizona Republican electors with the Archivist of the United States."

Newsweek has reached out to the RNC via its website for comment.

The indictment also described a post by Bobb published on December 6, 2020, on Twitter, criticizing then-Arizona House speaker Russell "Rusty" Bowers 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 post read. "First time it's been closed the whole pandemic."

Last year, Trump was indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, for alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He and several other co-defendants were accused of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The former president is also facing an indictment brought by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith for alleged attempts to overturn the election and his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. The former president has maintained his innocence in those cases.

In a statement to Newsweek on Monday, Trump's spokesperson Steven Cheung said, "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."

Meanwhile, Bobb has worked as a reporter for the One America News Network and also wrote a book about the last presidential election, Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024. She was appointed as the lead counsel for the RNC's election integrity unit last month.

"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," she said in a statement to CNN at the time.