Part of the Justice Department probe is reportedly focused on an effort by Trump’s team to submit fake electors who would claim to the Electoral College that Trump had won states where he had actually lost. On Tuesday, The New York Times revealed details of internal emails sent by lawyers working on this effort. In one email, the Arizona-based lawyer Jack Wilenchik described the plan as “kind of wild/creative.” He wrote, “We would just be sending in 'fake' electoral votes to Pence so that 'someone' in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the 'fake' votes should be counted.” In a follow-up email, he wrote, “'alternative' votes is probably a better term than 'fake' votes.” He then added a smiley face emoji to the email.