Memos Show Roots of Trump’s Focus on Jan. 6 and Alternate Electors

By Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater
Feb. 2, 2022

Just over two weeks after Election Day, lawyers working with the Trump campaign set out a rationale for creating alternate slates of electors as part of an effort to buy time to overturn the results.

Fifteen days after Election Day in 2020, James R. Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, received a memo setting out what became the rationale for an audacious...