Consistent with this, P9 asked P3 and P72 if certain fraud allegations were accurate, so that he could challenge information provided to the defendant by people like CC1 CC3 and P12[1] P9 also began interacting on a near-daily basis with P22 a Campaign staffer who P73 told P9 he could trust.[2] The Campaign, in turn, hired two outside firms—C1 and C2 to investigate fraud allegations.[3] P9 told the defendant that people external to the Campaign were hired to look into fraud allegations.[4]
Overall, P9 served as a conduit of day-to-day information between P22 and the defendant during the post-election period. P22 testified that around the time that CC1 was named to lead legal efforts, "I was introduced to P9 . . . and I started predominately reporting to P9 [5] He elaborated that P9 "started to call me more and more. It would be, you know, once every couple of days that then it was kind of every day for a period of time that I was talking to P9 [6] With this information, on a daily basis, P9 attempted to debunk the false fraud allegations in the White House. For example, after watching P74 testify in a December 10, 2020, hearing in Georgia, P9 reached out to P22 [7] Through this channel, P9 learned about C1 and C2 uniform findings—that no substantial fraud allegations were supported—essentially in real time.[8] P9 also participated in calls with C1 and had the number
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