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any of the States he contested.[43] Justin Clark, who oversaw the Trump Campaign's general counsel's office, said that he basically conveyed, "I'm out," and encouraged his colleagues on the legal team to do the same.[44] Findlay told the Select Committee that "we backed out of this thing," and Morgan, his boss, said he had Findlay pass off responsibility for the electors as "my way of taking that responsibility to zero."[45]
Clark told the Select Committee that "it never sat right with me that there was no…contingency whereby these votes would count."[46] "I had real problems with the process," Clark said, because "it morphed into something I didn't agree with."[47] In his view, the fake electors were "not necessarily duly nominated electors" despite being presented as such.[48] He said he believed he warned his colleagues that "unless we have litigation pending like in these States, like I don't think this is appropriate or, you know, this isn't the right thing to do."[49]
Morgan told the Select Committee that he saw no value in pushing slates of purported electors if they were not authorized by a State government's certificate of ascertainment. As he put it, "[M]y view was, as long as you didn't have a certificate of ascertainment, then the electors were, for
