A left-wing nonprofit organization provided Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes with a detailed roadmap for prosecuting Trump supporters nearly a year before her office secured indictments related to the 2020 election, according to revelations made during a recent radio interview and documents obtained by The Daily Signal.
In a December 4th conversation on iHeartRadio’s “The Afternoon Addiction with Garret Lewis” Pinal County Attorney-Elect Brad Miller disclosed that the States United Democracy Center, whose founders include a former Obama White House staffer, furnished Mayes with a 47-page memo on July 25, 2023, outlining potential criminal charges against Trump associates in Arizona.
The memo provided specific guidance for bringing criminal charges under Arizona law for forgery, tampering with public records, criminal impersonation, fraudulent schemes and practices, and conspiracy. The subsequent grand jury indictment in April closely mirrored these recommendations.
Miller, who serves as attorney for Senator Justine Wadzak, revealed that the same organization had connections to the January 6th committee and was founded by one of Barack Obama’s law school classmates. According to Miller, this blueprint was distributed to multiple states with alternate electors.
“Every other state that has been prosecuting their alternate electors is using the same exact blueprint,” Miller stated during the interview. What’s particularly noteworthy, he added, was that “the memo says that there’s going to be major problems in their case.”
Miller highlighted potential weaknesses in the prosecution’s case, noting that the grand jury wasn’t unanimous in its voting. “In a criminal matter in Arizona you have to have a unanimous verdict,” Miller explained. “Think about this – they presented this case to a grand jury without a defense attorney there, without the protections of the constitution or cross examination for three and a half months, and they could not get a unanimous verdict.”
The attorney has requested a hearing before Judge Myers to question AG Mayes about the memo and her alleged connections to the Biden and Obama administrations. Miller expressed confidence that such questioning could lead to the case’s dismissal, citing Arizona state law requiring dismissal of politically motivated prosecutions.
Senator Wadzak noted during the interview that despite the submission of extensive documentation detailing alleged misconduct by AG Mayes, House Speaker Ben Toma had previously blocked impeachment proceedings from moving forward.
Miller’s revelations came as Mayes has stated that her prosecution of various Trump associates, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, would continue despite Trump’s election to a second term, according to The Daily Signal.
The case continues to develop as Miller’s team awaits Judge Myers’ ruling on their motion for an evidentiary hearing to examine the role of the nonprofit organization in shaping the prosecution strategy.
