Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) doesn't buy the excuses coming from Wisconsin fake elector Andrew Hitt, who appeared on "60 Minutes" Sunday expressing contrition for his role in the 2020 election conspiracy.
Speaking to Anderson Cooper, Hitt claimed he trusted the word of "a lawyer" who advised him that signing the fraudulent elector documents was perfectly legal. Those documents then made it into the office of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and were almost handed to Vice President Mike Pence to suss out which slate was legitimate or not.
In the end, it was Pence's top aides who told a Johnson staffer via text message not to hand the fake electors over.
Hitt is a former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party and a lawyer, something McCaskill finds disturbing given his excuse to Cooper.
"I don't know where Andrew Hitt got his law degree, but he needs to call them and ask them for his money back," McCaskill said, coming out swinging.
"Andrew Hitt was not some uneducated rube. This is an attorney. I'm sorry, I think he's trying to cover himself now. I think he's, you know, worried about what went down, and he's trying to say, 'A lawyer told me.' Well, he is a lawyer, for gosh sakes!"
According to his online biography, Hitt is a graduate of the Marquette University Law School. His employer says he is a senior member of the government and regulatory law team.
"Why didn't he check what the precedent was?" McCaskill asked. "There is no law anywhere that allows people to pretend they are electors from a state when they're not. Anywhere. So, it is ridiculous that he is now saying, 'I was just told by a lawyer.' Well, that's just silly."
She also pointed out that the matter is already being legally categorized as a multi-state conspiracy involving officials like Johnson and other lawmakers.
"I'm sure that others on this panel can speak to the specifics of this better than I can, but I know this: Ron Johnson was also trying to cover his you-know-what after it was over, pretending like he wasn't part of the deal where they were trying to get fake electors in front of Pence in order to forestall the peaceful transfer of power that the Constitution does mandate.
"So, I'm not crying any crocodile tears for Andrew Hitt."
See the discussion in the video below or at the link here.
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