[News]Rudy Giuliani may have assigned volunteer to Arizona 'audit', new emails show

Newly released emails from the Ariz. Senate show a Republican volunteer telling 'audit' leaders that Giuliani's office had contacted her about effort.
Selected excerpts below:

Phoenix Republican Linda Brickman wrote Senate "audit" leaders on April 11, 2021, and told them Giuliani's office called her and asked for her help on the recount.

"I was just asked to help on the AZ Audit starting on April 22nd for 15 days," Brickman said in her email. "This is all under the authorization of Christina Bobb, who works with Rudy."

Bobb, who serves as one of Trump's lawyer, reported on the "audit" while working for the far-right One America News Network. She also acted as a go-between for Trump and Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, the lead contractor on the ballot review.

The email is the latest evidence of Trump's long reach into the ballot review and demonstrates how his allies instigated the deeply flawed recount of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County and later used it to promote unproven claims of election fraud to a national audience.

Brickman's email stating Giuliani's office and Bobb authorized her work on the audit seemed to catch other officials off guard.

"Having just received a call from Rudy Giuliani's office a few moments ago, I thought I would quickly fill you in," Brickman wrote.

Officials with the ballot review pushed back and advised her only the Senate liaison could schedule volunteers: "If your information or invitation doesn't come from Ken Bennett or Julie Fisher to be an volunteer observer, please disregard it," they wrote from the Senate's "audit" email account.

It appears the response did not affect her participation in the "audit." On her LinkedIn page, she prominently notes her role "as a member of the AZ Audit team as an Observer to help secure Election Integrity in our State."

Brickman is a Republican activist who joined the Arizona Tea Party Patriots Association in 2011, worked on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign and served as an Arizona delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention in 2016.

Bobb is a former U.S. Marine who worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration. She is best known as the former host of "Weekly Briefing" on One America News Network, which she joined in 2020.

Bobb became a central figure in the classified documents investigation and the federal indictment of Trump. When federal agents descended on Mar-a-Lago in an Aug. 8 search, Bobb confronted them as a senior lawyer on Trump's legal team. Bobb in 2022 had signed a document affirming that all classified material in the former president's possession was returned to federal authorities.