The unsealed court filing gave more details about when Michigan state legislators were invited to the White House and because they were being asked to meet in order to do state level election shenanigans, they decided to use covid as a sham reason for the meeting. In November 2020, these Michigan lawmakers claimed they were there to deliver a letter requesting more funds to fight the pandemic. Law And Chaos podcast’s Liz Dye suggested they “dangled” covid in front of Trump as a diversion hoping he wouldn’t send out mean tweets.
From Jack Smith’s unsealed court filing:
“… to avoid talking only about election fraud the legislators prepared materials to raise regarding covid-19 and planned in advance to release a statement once the meeting was over that said the legislators were unaware of information that would change the outcome of the election.”