Trump campaign operative who delivered Jan. 6 false elector lists is identified

[Nevilledog]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/jan-6-trump-operative-false-electors-00046175

A little-known Donald Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors to Capitol Hill in a bid to get them to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to two people familiar with the episode.

Mike Roman, then Trump’s 2020 director of Election Day operations, delivered those false elector certificates — signed by pro-Trump activists in Michigan and Wisconsin — to Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-Pa.) chief of staff at the time, both people told POLITICO. Kelly was a Trump ally in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and his then-top aide received the documents from Roman before deputizing a colleague to disseminate copies on Capitol Hill, according to both people.

Roman’s role in the effort to deliver those slates of electors directly to Pence has not previously been reported. The onetime Trump White House researcher and former aide to the conservative Koch network, who was subpoenaed in February by the Jan. 6 select committee, did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.

The origin of the false elector lists, which never got to Pence before he presided over certification of Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, has become an enduring subplot in the select panel’s investigation of the Capitol attack designed to disrupt that day. After the committee revealed the role of a top aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in the episode during a hearing last month, Johnson said the false elector lists came from Kelly — who has repeatedly denied any involvement by his office in their distribution.

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You just know that in this guy's peanut sized brain he thought he was gonna be a fucking hero.

[Phoenix61]

1. Yep! nt

[BootinUp]

2. Kelly. He must be a piece of work. nt

[John1956PA]

5. I was in Conor Lamb's district. The lines were redrawn a few years ago, and I am now in Kelly's.

In the past few races, the Democratic candidate came relatively close to defeating Kelly. I hope for success this time around.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. So he started this shit.

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[Takket]

4. this is fraud

if you or I slipped a fake receipt into our return to cheat on our taxes, we'd be in prison. This group tried to change the electoral college vote and install the wrong president. Lock them all up!!!!!!!!!!!

[brush]

6. He's gonna need a lawyer to help reduce his sentence...

because he's going to jail.

What were all of these false elector idiots thinking? You can't get anymore criminal than that...I mean falsifying documents that will go to Congress and on to the Library of Congress and they think no one's going scrutinize them?

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. "peanut sized brain"

Yeah right, like it's really that big . . . . .

[Nevilledog]

8. Well when you only use 10% of your brain.....

[cloudboy07]

9. disagree - you have use it to get to that 10 % !

[Nevilledog]

10. Fair point.

[ripcord]

11. I hope they nail his shmock to the wall.

[uponit7771]

15. +1,

[Kaleva]

12. So Pence never got the lists. Why?

Who or what prevented the person or people who had the lists from delivering them to Pence.

[Nevilledog]

13. Pence's aide said hell no you can't bring them to us.

It was covered in one of the hearings.

[Kaleva]

14. Ok. Thanks for the info!

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

"Mike Roman, a longtime Republican opposition researcher who worked for billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch before joining the Trump campaign, is now the White House’s director of special projects and research," ProPublica reported in May of 2017. "He is one of a half-dozen unannounced hires the White House has made since President Trump took office. Roman, who led the Kochs’ surveillance and intelligence-gathering unit before it was disbanded in April 2016, is best known for promoting a video showing members of the New Black Panthers allegedly intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008."

"ProPublica noted "Roman, who made roughly $246,000 in salary from the Koch-backed Freedom Partners, according to his financial disclosure, was also a contributor to the conservative news site Breitbart and was tapped to run Trump's 'election protection' poll-watching efforts this November."

Roman would again run Trump's election day operation in 2020 and has a long history of election activism.

"A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an 'army' of volunteers for President Donald Trump’s campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning areas on Tuesday," the AP reported on election day. "Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day Operations, is a former White House aide from Pennsylvania who gathered claims in 1993 of voter fraud, resulting in a court ruling overturning election results and getting his candidate seated in the Pennsylvania State Senate. It’s a strategy that Trump has been advocating on Twitter and on the stump."

In 2015, Politico reported on Roman under the heading, "The Koch intelligence agency."

"The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life," Kenneth Vogel reported. "The competitive intelligence team has a staff of 25, including one former CIA analyst, and operates from one of the non-descript Koch network offices clustered near the Courthouse metro stop in suburban Arlington, Va."

“They act all cloak and dagger – like the CIA. There was a joke about how hardly anyone ever met Mike Roman. It was like, if you wanted to find him, he’d be in a trench coat on the National Mall,” said the former official.

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-roman-trump/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Closing in on the Grotesque Orange Pustule.