Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on.
This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and was one of the Trump associates indicted over the scheme in Arizona earlier this week.
Epshteyn has been present with Trump for some of his other cases, and even tried to speak out in court during the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial on behalf of the former president.
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"I mentioned the nexus to the New York case, and also separately, even if he wasn't involved anymore for Trump, this is another person in the elector plot that now is facing a potential trial," said Melber, himself an attorney.
"Ari, they might as well mark that tape you played Exhibit Number 1, and that's, in essence, Boris captured on video talking about the fake elector scheme. He's now charged in Arizona," said Vance. "When that's added onto some of the other evidence that we've heard about that's publicly known, right? We don't know what prosecutors might have that we're not aware of, emails trying to convince officials in Arizona that they should come on board for this plan to put in a fake slate of electors to try to tie up the certification of the electoral college vote, that makes Arizona's case look really solid."
She added that it's "very interesting Boris Epshteyn was in court with Donald Trump. He wasn't there for jury selection. He wasn't there for opening statements. He did show up the day after he was indicted in Arizona. Maybe it was planned be in advance. But it's certainly worth following."
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