Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Well it would be surprising if he personally contracted any of them, but it pretty obvious it was managed centrally to a pretty significant degree, and that is likely to roll uphill close enough to be uncomfortable for him.

Unfortunately you usually have to do something in order to do something illegal, and he's gotten out of things over the years mainly through plausible deniability. Plenty of people did overly illegal things here, just a matter of how close to it he got in this case

Seems deranged to do this without some kind of promise of a pardon or similar.

…At the same time, it’s not hard to believe that there are 16+ deranged republicans risking their freedom by conspiring in a basement to own the libs.

Did Trump personally tell them what to do? Probably not. Did they do this on their own without his administration's involvement? Doubtful.

It doesn't have to be trump personally. it could be any one of his cronies like MTG, Boebert, Gym Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Rudy, Mike Pillow, etc. They just need to turn on whoever they were in contact with in order to come up with the plan in the first place. Then follow the chain to the top.

Trump? No, he's not smart enough. But it is odd that this scheme would have happened in more than one state completely organically. So either 1) a whole bunch of people were all equally stupid at the same time (and let's face it, when talking about Trump's supporters that's a fair given) and/or 2) there was some level of coordination, most likely involving John Eastman and other, more scheming individuals in Trump's cabal (Miller? Bannon?).