EmmaLee Robinson

EmmaLee Robinson was Chad Christensen's supervisor at State Farm Insurance in Idaho Falls. She is the person who made the recording — the scheme's first and most consequential step.

Here is what happened, drawn from sworn deposition testimony in Case No. CV10-21-1197. Robinson saw a Facebook comment thread on an East Idaho News story about Christensen's 2020 race and reached out privately to Gregory Graf, saying she had "red flags" about Christensen. She told Graf she would speak with him, and before taking that call, told Christensen about it. She admitted under oath that Christensen helped her download a recording app on her phone. His voice is audible in the first minute of the recording, coaching Robinson on how to capture the call, before she stepped outside to take it. She recorded the conversation without Graf's knowledge or consent.

She then forwarded the recording to Christensen. Christensen forwarded it to Greg Pruett the following day.

Robinson also provided the recording to counsel at Melaleuca, Graf's employer at the time, a step that went beyond Pruett and directly targeted Graf's employment. The recording was used as the basis for a multi-part smear campaign published by Dustin Hurst and Pruett on Keep Idaho Free.

In her own deposition, Robinson claimed she did not give Greg Pruett permission to use her recording for publication. Robinson had been in active contact with Pruett throughout. The text messages recovered in discovery document coordination before the articles were published, including a message referencing Bryan Smith's offer of free legal defense. She sent the "no permission" message to Pruett only after Graf's attorney issued a cease and desist letter. Pruett's own November 1 text explicitly references receiving that C&D and tells Robinson not to worry about it. The denial arrived after the legal exposure did, from someone who had been coordinating with the network the entire time.

Robinson did not face legal consequence for her role in the scheme. Graf's counterclaims against her in the defamation litigation were dismissed on procedural grounds.

She has not receded from the network. She is listed as a $100 contributor to Christensen's 2026 campaign, meaning the woman who helped orchestrate the scheme that generated the lawsuit, and who was Christensen's employer during the years the litigation was active, is now a financial backer of his next campaign. She continues to share and amplify content on social media that repeats false or misleading narratives about Gregory Graf, spreading claims the court record directly contradicts. Her own posts show the posture she has maintained throughout: after sitting for deposition in the case, she taunted Graf on Twitter about forgetting his face after six hours of testimony. When pressed on whether she owed him an apology, she said she was "confused about why I'd apologize".