Kris Mayes thought she could weaponize her office against Trump supporters forever.
President Trump's pardon just changed everything.
And Brad Miller just delivered one message that has Kris Mayes scrambling for the exit.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes spent nearly two years building a case against Trump supporters who challenged the 2020 election. She indicted 18 people including Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and former Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward for acting as alternate electors.
The entire prosecution was designed to intimidate conservatives and send a message that questioning election results equals prison time. Democrats deployed the same playbook across multiple states targeting 77 Trump supporters with criminal charges.
Now President Trump's pardon of all 77 alternate electors just blew Mayes's case to pieces and exposed the political persecution for exactly what it was.
Pinal County Attorney goes scorched earth on Mayes's failed prosecution
Brad Miller represented Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward as their attorney before voters elected him Pinal County Attorney last November. He knows this case inside and out because he lived through Mayes's witch hunt firsthand.
Miller released a blistering statement Monday evening calling for Mayes to be personally sued and forced to pay back the defendants out of her own pocket.¹
"I hope Attorney General Kris Mayes is personally sued for botching the Arizona electors case and that she is forced to repay the electors out of her own pocket," Miller stated. "If you wage a political war against innocent citizens, you should be held accountable — not taxpayers."²
The charges were political from day one. Mayes announced the indictments in April 2024 after sitting on the case for over a year, timing it perfectly to damage Trump during the election cycle.³
But here's what makes this prosecution even more corrupt. A leftwing nonprofit called States United Democracy Center literally wrote Mayes's indictment for her, providing a memo outlining the exact charges she should bring.⁴
The group is led by Norm Eisen, a former Obama White House ethics counsel known for coordinating lawfare operations against Trump. Mayes put them on retainer in May 2023 and they delivered her prosecution blueprint two months later.⁵
Democrats from the Democratic Attorneys General Association then funneled $200,000 into Mayes's "legal fund" after the indictments dropped, with most of that money coming long after her 2022 campaign ended.⁶
Judge already destroyed the foundation of Mayes's case
Mayes's prosecution started falling apart in May when Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers ruled prosecutors improperly presented the case to the grand jury.⁷
The judge found Mayes failed to inform jurors about the Electoral Count Act, which governs how electoral votes are counted and provides a complete defense for the defendants.⁸
An appeals court sided with the lower court and refused to even consider Mayes's appeal in September.⁹
A different judge earlier ruled the defendants made a sufficient showing that Mayes brought the charges to retaliate against them for exercising their constitutional rights, meaning she'll have to prove legitimate grounds for the prosecution.¹⁰
That's going to be impossible now that Trump pardoned everyone and exposed this as pure political persecution.
Miller told The Gateway Pundit he expects Mayes to drop the case within a week because she has no choice.¹¹
"I think she has to drop the case. She knows that she has no case. She knows that she invented a crime," Miller explained. "The writing is on the wall. She has to drop the case. She has no choice, and we expect that probably within the next week."¹²
Arizona AG's track record proves politics drives every decision
Mayes's failures aren't surprising since her loyalty is to politics, not the law. Her win-loss record is abysmal when you look beyond the splashy press conference announcements.¹³
Remember when Mayes announced a criminal investigation into Trump right before the 2024 election over comments he made about Liz Cheney? The investigation disappeared the moment polls closed because it was always a political stunt to boost Democrat turnout.¹⁴
Mayes also indicted the Apache County Attorney. He won reelection but couldn't take office because of the indictment, which pressured the county to award a no-bid $650,000 contract to the person who filed the original complaint against him.¹⁵
She sued Cochise County over election procedures that were perfectly legal and used by multiple other counties. Mayes lost in court and got excoriated by the judge for trying to inject political attacks into the lawsuit.¹⁶
The pattern is crystal clear. Mayes picks political targets, generates headlines, then loses in court when judges actually examine the law.
Miller's statement captured what every conservative in Arizona knows about this prosecution. "This pardon stops the weaponization of prosecutions. No political viewpoints in Arizona or across America should be silenced," Miller declared. "Drs. Michael and Kelli Ward are not criminals — they were electors acting under the law."¹⁷
"I will always stand with citizens whose rights are targeted by government overreach. Arizona deserves prosecutors who follow the law — not politicians who twist it," Miller added.¹⁸
Mayes spent her career as a regulator and politician, not a prosecutor.¹⁹ She switched from Republican to Democrat in 2019 specifically because of her hatred for Trump.²⁰ Then she won by just 280 votes in 2022 and immediately weaponized the Attorney General's office against Trump supporters.²¹
The Trump pardon exposed Mayes's prosecution as exactly what it always was – political persecution designed to criminalize legitimate election challenges and intimidate conservatives from ever questioning Democrat victories again.
¹ Brad Miller, Press Release, Pinal County Attorney's Office, November 11, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ "Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and Arizona 'fake electors' charged with state crimes," NBC News, May 1, 2024.
⁴ "Leftist Group That Drew Up Blueprints For 'Get Trump' Prosecutions Was On Retainer To 'Advise' Arizona AG," The Federalist, December 23, 2024.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ "Appeals Court Strikes Another Blow to AZ AG Kris Mayes' Prosecution," IntellectualConservative, August 27, 2025.
⁷ "Judge sends Arizona 'fake electors' case back to grand jury," KJZZ, May 19, 2025.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ "Big decisions pend in 2020 'fake elector' cases as political winds shift," The Hill, October 29, 2025.
¹⁰ "Kris Mayes' won-and-lost record is abysmal," Arizona Capitol Times, February 27, 2025.
¹¹ Jordan Conradson, "Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller SLAMS Arizona Attorney General," The Gateway Pundit, November 11, 2025.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ "Kris Mayes' won-and-lost record is abysmal," Arizona Capitol Times, February 27, 2025.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ Ibid.
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ Brad Miller, Press Release, Pinal County Attorney's Office, November 11, 2025.
¹⁸ Ibid.
¹⁹ "Appeals Court Strikes Another Blow to AZ AG Kris Mayes' Prosecution," IntellectualConservative, August 27, 2025.
²⁰ "Kris Mayes," Wikipedia, accessed November 11, 2025.
²¹ Ibid.
