(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Story of the Michigan Electoral Heist Attempt [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-03 — Here’s a good story. One that is fairly easy to tell, and worth repeating. It is a story about how a pack of lies repeatedly told, almost flipped one state’s Electors, into the column of the conspiratorial liar, who did not legitimately win them. Not even close. Trump falsely claims suspicious ballot dump in Detroit, indictment reveals News Channel 3 — Aug 2, 2023 DETROIT — News Channel 3 learned that former president Donald Trump claimed there had been a suspicious dump of illegitimate ballots in Detroit. Trump held a meeting in the oval office on Nov. 20, 2020, with then [Michigan] State Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield and Mike Shirkey, the former Majority Leader of the Michigan senate, according to the indictment. [...] In early December, the indictment alleges he knowingly made a false statement, stating he was winning by a lot before nearly 150,000 votes came in unexpectedly, calling Detroit corrupt. [...] — That story is precisely spelled out in the Indictment of the United States vs. Donald J. Trump. It starts with a conspiracy concerning the “corrupt Vote Dump in Detroit” — a false accusation repeated multiple times by Defendant Trump, even after the relevant Michigan Officials told him was no such fraud in Detroit. Case closed. Note: Co-Conspirator 1 is widely thought to be Rudy Giuliani. He was putting pressure on the republican Michigan Legislature to decertify the state’s Election results, which went for Biden. Co-Conspirator 2 is believed to be John Eastman, inventor of the Fake Elector scheme. pg 17-19 [Emphasis added] Michigan 34. On November 5, 2020, the Defendant claimed that there had been a suspicious dump of votes — purportedly illegitimate ballots — stating, “In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning and — even though the polls closed at eight o’clock. So they brought it in, and the batches came in, and nobody knew where they came from.” 35. On November 20, three days before Michigan’s Governor signed a certificate of ascertainment notifying the federal government that, based on the popular vote, Biden’s electors were to represent Michigan’s voters, the Defendant held a meeting in the Oval Office with the Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate . In the meeting, the Defendant raised his false claim, among others, of an illegitimate vote dump in Detroit. In response, the Michigan Senate Majority Leader told the Defendant that he had lost Michigan not because of fraud, but because the Defendant had underperformed with certain voter populations in the state. Upon leaving their meeting, the Michigan House Speaker and Michigan Senate Majority Leader issued a statement reiterating this: The Senate and House Oversight Committees are actively engaged in a thorough review of Michigan’s elections process and we have faith in the committee process to provide greater transparency and accountability to our citizens. We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors, just as we have said throughout this election. 36. On December 1, the Defendant raised his Michigan vote dump claim with the Attorney General, who responded that what had occurred in Michigan had been the normal vote-counting process and that there was no indication of fraud in Detroit . 37. Despite this, the next day, the Defendant made a knowingly false statement that in Michigan, “[a]t 6:31 in the morning, a vote dump of 149,772 votes came in unexpectedly. We were winning by a lot. That batch was received in horror. Nobody knows anything about it... . It’s corrupt. Detroit is corrupt. I have a lot of friends in Detroit. They know it. But Detroit is totally corrupt.” 38. On December 4, Co-Conspirator 1 sent a text message to the Michigan House Speaker reiterating his unsupported claim of election fraud and attempting to get the Michigan House Speaker to assist in reversing the ascertainment of the legitimate Biden electors , stating, “Looks like Georgia may well hold some factual hearings and change the certification under ArtII sec 1 cl 2 of the Constitution. As [Co-Conspirator 2] explained they don’t just have the right to do it but the obligation. ... Help me get this done in Michigan.” 39. Similarly, on December 7, despite still having established no fraud in Michigan, Co-Conspirator 1 sent a text intended for the Michigan Senate Majority Leader: “ So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the Michigan legislature that states that, *the election is in dispute, *there’s an ongoing investigation by the Legislature, and *the Electors sent by Governor Whitmer are not the official Electors of the State of Michigan and do not fall within the Safe Harbor deadline of Dec 8 under Michigan law.” 40. On December 14 — the day that electors in states across the country were required to vote and submit their votes to Congress — the Michigan House Speaker and Michigan Senate Majority Leader announced that, contrary to the Defendant’s requests, they would not decertify the legitimate election results or electors in Michigan . The Michigan Senate Majority Leader’s public statement included, “[W]e have not received evidence of fraud on a scale that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan.” The Michigan House Speaker’s public statement read, in part: We’ve diligently examined these reports of fraud to the best of our ability. ... ... I fought hard for President Trump. Nobody wanted him to win more than me. I think he’s done an incredible job. But I love our republic, too. I can’t fathom risking our norms, traditions and institutions to pass a resolution retroactively changing the electors for Trump, simply because some think there may have been enough widespread fraud to give him the win. That’s unprecedented for good reason. And that’s why there is not enough support in the House to cast a new slate of electors. I fear we’d lose our country forever. This truly would bring mutually assured destruction for every future election in regards to the Electoral College. And I can’t stand for that. I won’t. 41. On January 6, 2021, the Defendant publicly repeated his knowingly false claim regarding an illicit dump of more than a hundred thousand ballots in Detroit. [Onto the story of ] Pennsylvania [...] How many other states were also the targets of this same lying conspiracy — a heist plot that aimed to deny millions of Americans their rightful votes? Well according to the latest Trump Indictment, this wide-reaching conspiracy involved 7 states: Manner and Means 10. [...] b. The Defendant and co-conspirators organized fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), attempting to mimic the procedures that the legitimate electors were supposed to follow under the Constitution and other federal and state laws. This included causing the fraudulent electors to meet on the day appointed by federal law on which legitimate electors were to gather and cast their votes; cast fraudulent votes for the Defendant; and sign certificates falsely representing that they were legitimate electors. Some fraudulent electors were tricked into participating based on the understanding that their votes would be used only if the Defendant succeeded in outcome-determinative lawsuits within their state, which the Defendant never did. [...] — The scope and scale of this attempted disenfranchisement is as audacious, as it is dangerous. So too, should be the public examination of this brazen attempt to “bring mutually assured destruction for every future election” — in the words Michigan’s State Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield. The only “steal” we need to “stop” is the one that Defendant Trump is still trying to foist on the American People, all to keep his sorry-self out of jail. If the Defendant is so innocent, let him have a speedy trial and present his evidence, to clear his conspiratorial name. American democracy is too precious, and too fragile, to let the man throw bricks into its gears, ever again. Let Justice be done. Let the facts of the case be publicly told, for all to see and hear. — — A page out the Trump Election Interference playbook. — — Transcript of J6 Indictment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a7503af-fde7-4061-818c-7d7e0ee06036.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 from this Washington Post source page: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/01/indictment-document-trump-jan-6-pdf/ — — [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/3/2185123/-The-Story-of-the-Michigan-Electoral-Heist-Attempt Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/