No one knows if Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 election investigation will ultimately end in indictments for Donald Trump and/or the allies who helped him attempt to stay in power after losing to Joe Biden. One thing that is clear, though, is that the people Willis is investigating seem to be extremely worried they’ll be on the receiving end of criminal charges, and we know this because at least one of them has written a desperate letter blaming everything he did on attorneys representing him and Trump.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shafer-broke-no-laws-as-alternate-trump-elector-in-2020/7IMON55FBJBYPEJB7XQ5WT4FBU/”reports that in a letter sent to Willis’s office, lawyers for David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, swore their client was simply following legal advice when he organized a slate of fake electors—and served as one himself—in effort to steal a second term for Trump. Noting that they don’t think Shafer actually did anything wrong—“We believe that the legal advice Mr. Shafer received was correct and that his reliance upon that advice was justified,” Holly Pierson and Craig Gillen say—the attorneys write that should prosecutors nevertheless decide he broke the law, they’d like everyone to know he was only doing as told and therefore cannot be convicted of a crime. “Every action by Mr. Shafer as a presidential elector nominee or contingent elector in 2020 was specifically undertaken in conformity with and reliance upon the repeated and detailed advice of legal counsel, eliminating any possibility of criminal intent or liability,” they insist. This, is, of course, an amazing argument: Our client has committed no crime…but if he did it was only because someone else told him to, so he’s in the clear.

Willis previously informed all 16 of the fake electors in Georgia that they were targets of her investigation and could be