Attorney General Kris Mayes relied on the funding and plans of a top Russiagate conspirator to prosecute Trump’s 2020 electors.
The discovery of the coordination emerged in a whistleblower filing by Christina Bobb, a reporter and former Trump administration official, uploaded by Judicial Watch.
“Arizona AG Kris Mayes’ conduct raises serious concerns that the Arizona Attorney General has given authority to ‘an initiative’ of the Democratic Attorney General’s Association to prosecute Ms. Bobb,” stated the filing. “In exchange, it appears that Attorney General Mayes was paid $200,000 potentially to allow a committee of the Democratic Party to influence this prosecution for political gain.”
Mayes’ team “inadvertently disclosed” their receipt of $200,000 from the Democratic Attorney General’s Association (DAGA) in an apparent exchange for their organization, States United Democracy Center (SUDC), to have influence over the Trump electors prosecution. DAGA is a committee of the Democratic Party.
The revelation of their involvement, per Bobbs’ legal team, prompted Mayes’ office to refuse giving further information.
“States United was exposed as assisting this prosecution only due to an error,” said the filing. “The prosecutors now claim States United’s involvement is privileged and are refusing to disclose their activity.”
An email from Mayes’ office submitted as evidence admitted the disclosure of SUDC involvement was unintentional, and argued any other existing information on the relationship had attorney-client privilege.
“The State maintains that this [unintentional provision of a SUDC memorandum to us] was not a waiver of the attorney-client privilege,” stated the email.
DAGA paid $50,000 to Mayes’ legal fund in September 2023, followed by a $150,000 payment to the same fund in 2024. The initial payment came several months after Mayes awarded prosecutorial influence to SUDC. The latter payment came about a month after Bobb and other co-indicted Trump supporters were arrested and arraigned.
“Prosecutors claim on the record and in emails that States United represents their office,” stated Bobb’s filing.
Christina Bobb just dropped a huge bombshell. The Arizona AG (the position that rightfully should have gone to @AbrahamHamadeh but that is another story) has been pursuing Trump supporters under the false electors hoax. It turns out the AG followed a prosecutorial blueprint given… https://t.co/vqWgRnbsUi
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) November 11, 2025
SUDC is an initiative of the Progressive State Leadership Committee (PSLC), which shares the exact same address, president, and executive director, and most of its leadership team, with DAGA. Further, DAGA pays PSLC employee salaries.
“PSLC and DAGA are the same people, sitting in the same building in Washington DC, getting paid from the same bank account,” stated the June filing.
SUDC launched in 2020 under Obama’s “ethics czar” Norman “Norm” Eisen for the purpose of defeating Trump. Eisen served as the Democratic special counsel that drove Trump’s first impeachment: he drafted articles of impeachment months before the action against the president was announced.
The listed attorney for SUDC was Marc Elias, a top Democratic Party election lawyer for years — notably for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, where he played a key role in Russiagate.
Elias facilitated one of the 2016 opposition research operations against Trump that produced the since-debunked Steele dossier, which the FBI used to push a false narrative that Russian election interference caused Trump to win the 2016 election.
SUDC also provided counsel and advice to Governor Katie Hobbs’ office.
Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano sit on SUDC’s advisory board.
Others on the advisory board include former President H.W. Bush’s deputy attorney general, Donald Ayer; former FBI director James Comey’s assistant director Gregory “Greg” Brower; and George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.