The other day Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer was subpoenaed to testify in Washington, D.C., before the so-called “House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” and subjected to four hours of questioning.
Investigators were focusing on a lawsuit he filed as a co-plaintiff with President Donald Trump contesting Georgia’s 2020 general election. Shafer says he and party attorneys filed 1,500 pages of exhibits showing thousands of irregular, unlawful and fraudulent ballots sufficient in scale to cast doubt on the outcome of the election. And, as he points out, “we were entitled to and requested an expedited hearing.”
Here’s how events unfolded, as Shafer explains in a letter to top party officials that InsiderAdvantage obtained:
“On December 14, 2020, when the Presidential Electors were required by law to assemble and cast their votes for President and Vice President, our lawsuit contesting the election was still pending. On the advice of legal counsel to preserve President Trump’s remedy under the pending contest and following the 1960 precedent from Hawaii when the outcome was still in dispute when the Presidential Electors were required to vote, I convened the Republican Presidential Elector nominees and we cast our votes. Had I failed to do so, President Trump’s lawsuit would have been immediately mooted as there would be no remedy available to him even if he prevailed.
“To my continuing dismay and in violation of state law which requires election contests to be heard within 20 days of being filed, our lawsuit was not assigned to a judge and put down for a hearing until January 8, 2021 – weeks after the 20 day deadline had expired and two days after Congress met to count and certify the votes.
“In what is clearly an effort to distract from the manifest failures of the Biden Administration, the Democrats are now trying to characterize our efforts to fight for the integrity of our elections in Georgia as some sort of scandal. The “mainstream” media has produced a series of stories suggesting that the other Presidential Electors and I should be investigated, prosecuted and even incarcerated for daring to object to obvious violations of law and acting lawfully to preserve our legal rights. …
“Although my attorney accepted service of the subpoena electronically, the House Select Committee dispatched federal marshals to my home in Duluth to physically serve the subpoena on my disabled wife. The message was unmistakable.” Shafer emphasizes that he went to Washington D.C., to set the record straight, took an oath to tell the truth and answered their every question. He says he rebutted “in its entirely the false media narrative that has cast the lawbreakers as heroes and the law keepers as villains. At the end of my testimony, they closed my deposition and released me from subpoena.”
