Ex-Trump aide Michael Roman talks with DOJ in 2020 election probe

A former Trump 2020 campaign official is working with Justice Department prosecutors as part of their investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the result of the last presidential election.

Michael Roman, the Trump re-election campaign’s director of Election Day operations, has entered into a proffer agreement with prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office, CNN reported, meaning he may provide testimony in exchange for immunity.

Though Roman was subpoenaed months ago and had his phone seized, he is expected to be able to avoid testifying before a federal grand jury as part of the agreement.

In the wake of Trump’s 2020 loss, Roman joined an effort to put forward slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in key swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.

Gary Michael Brown, Roman’s deputy who was also involved in the effort, appeared before the grand jury last week.

The House Democrat-led January 6th Select Committee had interviewed Roman during its nearly two-year probe of the events leading up to the 2021 Capitol riot.

Roman refused to tell the House panel whether he coordinated with Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the scheme between Election Day and the riot, according to CNN.

Giuliani has also met with Smith’s prosecutors.

“I don’t believe I had any interaction with him before the election,” Roman said of his communications with Giuliani, before invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination about their contact after the 2020 election.