Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’s office has been making steady progress in its investigation into disgraced former President Trump and his minions pressuring officials in the state to overturn his circa-10,000 vote defeat in the state in the 2020 election, conducting interviews with all the current and former members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and former state House Speaker Rusty Bowers to build a case, the Washington Post reports on movement in a possible fifth jurisdiction in which the fat bastard could end up facing criminal charges.
The investigation had previously been more akin to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s case against the 16 fake Trump 2020 electors in the Great Lakes State – as in local yokels only – than Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis’s sweeping RICO indictment against Donald and 18 of his minions, only two of them fake electors. But the Post’s reporting indicates a scope widening to the post-election meltdown inciting violent threats against Bowers and the Maricopa officials.
It’s not clear yet if or when Trump himself could find himself targeted in the probe. A lot would depend on the level of cooperation from guys like Bowers and former Governor Doug Ducey, who reportedly had a conversation with Trump similar to the one Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger did on January 2, 2021. Ducey did not however leak a recording of it the very next day (he didn’t record it at all) and the Post only got it from a second-hand source earlier this year.