“It’s simply a matter of mathematics,” Northon mentioned on a special episode of Gruber’s podcast, in past due November. “We’ve got a Ph.D., Dr. Zhang, Jennie Zhang from Hillsdale College, who just did the math. And when you do the math, it shows not just a handful of improper votes, or a handful of illegal votes, but hundreds of thousands, well over 500,000 in the general election alone.” He was once relating to Qianying Zhang, a finance and economics professor who is going through Jennie and was once paid $5,000 as a professional witness through Amistad. Based on a survey through a company run through a former Trump marketing campaign aide, she estimated what number of people had gained absentee ballots that they had no longer asked. (In an e-mail, Zhang mentioned that whilst Northon had introduced a “plausible” account of her findings, calling the votes “improper” or “illegal” went “beyond the direct scope of my analysis.”)
In early December, Northon took section in a convention name with an previous pal of Arnn’s from Claremont circles, the legal professional John Eastman. Northon, in his testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee, mentioned this assembly, like the first one, “was set up by some Hillsdale people.” He particularly discussed Spalding, dean of the faculty’s Washington graduate faculty, one thing of a nexus in the capital for teachers on the proper. Northon’s legal professional, Chip Chamberlain, mentioned in an e-mail change that neither Arnn nor Spalding was once on the Eastman name. Northon, he mentioned, merely “reviewed Dr. Spalding’s research on elections and constitutionalism before various filings with the courts.” (Spalding, in a remark via Hillsdale, mentioned he had by no means met Northon.)
Northon advised the Jan. 6 committee that the two Michigan lawmakers who attended the Giuliani assembly participated in this one too, in conjunction with a 3rd, Daire Rendon. (Rendon was once charged closing yr in a separate case involving voting-machine breaches orchestrated through Trump allies.) The lawmakers “were people who wanted their colleagues in the House to do more,” Northon testified, including, “That was the impetus of the Eastman call.”
Eastman was once one in all the criminal architects of the method to deploy pretend electors in states Trump misplaced, in order to press Pence to forgo certifying Biden on Jan. 6. (He was once indicted closing yr on fees associated with this effort in Georgia, the place he has pleaded no longer responsible.) Now, on the convention name, he defined to the lawmakers that the State Legislature held the energy to do so on elections. “If somebody’s going to do something about it, it’s them,” Northon recalled Eastman announcing.
Northon additionally ready a draft answer for the Legislature’s Republican leaders, hoping they might claim that they have been investigating the election. As he composed the draft, he mentioned, he confirmed it to Norton and Emily Davis, Hillsdale’s communications leader. When House investigators requested Northon about his operating election-related paperwork through Hillsdale’s brass, he mentioned: “Well, my — I represented Hillsdale and all this — although this wasn’t something I was doing for them, I thought they should be aware of it, that it was happening. I thought it was important for them.”