It was either an odd or a fitting appointment, depending on how you look at it. Bobb wrote a book — “Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024″ — elevating various debunked allegations about the election, particularly centered on Arizona, where she went to college. Putting Bobb in charge of “election integrity” was a bit like putting the guy who runs the Loch Ness souvenir shop in charge of finding the monster.
And that was before Wednesday, when Bobb was one of numerous Trumpworld figures indicted in Arizona on charges centered on the effort to subvert Joe Biden’s victory in that state.
Those new indictments targeted a number of familiar names, including other Trump attorneys like Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis. It also included references to several unindicted co-conspirators, including (very obviously) Trump himself and his former attorney Kenneth Chesebro. A few hours earlier, several of those same individuals were also identified as unindicted co-conspirators in a case centered on the effort to subvert Biden’s win in Michigan — including Trump, Giuliani and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
With these new developments, there are now numerous sets of indictments in a number of states and at the federal level involving this same extended cast of characters. Including Trump’s indictments in New York (for hiding repayments made to keep an adult-film actress quiet before the 2016 election) and Florida (for retaining classified documents after leaving the White House), this is what the legal landscape looks like in the vicinity of Donald Trump.
You’ll notice that a number of names appear more than once. Take Trump, for example. He’s been indicted four times, including twice for efforts to retain the presidency. He’s been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in two other cases.
Giuliani, for his part, has now been indicted twice (in Arizona and Georgia) and identified as an unidentified co-conspirator twice (related to the federal charges in D.C. and in Michigan).
In Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, the charges center on the effort to put forward alternate slates of electors before Jan. 6, 2021. (Several of those indicted in the Fulton County, Ga., indictments were also pseudo-electors in that state.) In the Arizona and Michigan indictments, those efforts were tied (through indictment or identification of co-conspirators) to Trump allies working on the national effort.
In the table below, “IN” indicates someone who has been indicted. “UC” indicates an unindicted co-conspirator. In the federal indictment brought in D.C., a sixth unindicted co-conspirator was described but has not been clearly identified. The New York Times has reported that it might be Boris Epshteyn.
Between these 11 individuals, there are 19 indictments above and at least 11 inclusions in indictments as unindicted coconspirators.
What’s revealed above is something that has been broadly understood for more than three years: There was a widespread effort to keep Trump in power that involved numerous Trump allies in multiple places. Slowly, that effort is being addressed by local, state and federal officials.
It seems safe to assume that, in her new role, Christina Bobb will not expend a lot of Republican Party resources trying to prevent the sorts of election subversion she herself is accused of advancing.
