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In latest Trump indictment, Arizona is mentioned 42 times

The indictment of former President Donald Trump on conspiracy and obstruction charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election is 45 pages long.

The word Arizona appears 42 times in the same document signed by special counsel Jack Smith.

The indictment details pressure put on former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers to hold a hearing on voter fraud despite no evidence and to replace the state’s legitimate electors with fake ones.

The document quotes an alleged Trump co-conspirator much like how Bowers testified last year at a Jan. 6 congressional hearing about asking Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani for proof.   

“He said, ‘We’ve got lots of theories. We just don’t have the evidence.’ And I don’t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn’t think through what he said,” Bowers told a House Select Committee in June 2022. 

Bowers on Wednesday said that he cannot comment right now.

Separately, the indictment alleges that Trump co-conspirators plotted a legal maneuver so the vote held by the fake electors in Arizona would not look treasonous.  

Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.