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Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 04:08 PM Nov 2020

Trump's legal team humiliated after confusing Michigan with Minnesota in election fraud affidavit




You just cannot make this stuff up.

Donald Trump’s crack legal team Thursday filed a lawsuit alleging Michigan fraud that cited a list of seemingly irregular township voting percentages. Unfortunately, the data in a supporting affidavit might have more persuasive had it not come from two states away in Minnesota.

Yes, it appears “MI” for Michigan is easily confused by “MN” for Minnesota if the lawyers on your “elite strike force” legal team aren’t actually all that elite. In this case, the grievous error was flagged by none other than Powerline.com, a blog authored by some extremely conservative attorneys.,,,

“Evidently a researcher, either Mr. Ramsland or someone working for him, was working with a database and confused “MI” for Minnesota with “MI” for Michigan. (The postal code for Minnesota is MN, while Michigan is MI, so one can see how this might happen.) So the affidavit, which addresses “anomalies and red flags” in Michigan, is based largely, and mistakenly, on data from Minnesota.

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Trump's legal team humiliated after confusing Michigan with Minnesota in election fraud affidavit (Original Post) Gothmog Nov 2020 OP
This is so embarrassing. SNL can take the week off. Giuliani did their work for them. tulipsandroses Nov 2020 #1
the Deep State switched the exhibits! TomDaisy Nov 2020 #2
"Oh ... um ... one of those 'M' states." lpbk2713 Nov 2020 #3
come on man onethatcares Nov 2020 #4
Which is it? Ol' fashion incompetence OR a clever move to get 1 day extension? NCjack Nov 2020 #5
I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem to me that ... Brother Mythos Nov 2020 #6
I'm sorry, but this is just funny. Vinca Nov 2020 #7
There's a city called Detroit Lakes in Minnesota too gollygee Nov 2020 #8
When will this effing year ever end???? lindysalsagal Nov 2020 #9
'Exhibit Q': Lawyer Lin Wood Submits that Michigan Is Really Minnesota in Failed Pro-Trump Election Gothmog Nov 2020 #10

tulipsandroses

(5,092 posts)
1. This is so embarrassing. SNL can take the week off. Giuliani did their work for them.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 04:17 PM
Nov 2020

They could not have written better scripts.

Brother Mythos

(1,442 posts)
6. I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem to me that ...
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 04:43 PM
Nov 2020

Giuliani is really worth $ 20,000 a day for his legal services.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
8. There's a city called Detroit Lakes in Minnesota too
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 04:44 PM
Nov 2020

but they're professionals and should figure this out.

Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
10. 'Exhibit Q': Lawyer Lin Wood Submits that Michigan Is Really Minnesota in Failed Pro-Trump Election
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 04:50 PM
Nov 2020

This amuses me https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/exhibit-q-lawyer-lin-wood-submits-that-michigan-is-really-minnesota-in-failed-pro-trump-election-affidavit/?utm_source=mostpopular

The crux of Ramsland’s analysis, describing himself as part of the management team at Allied Securities Operations Group, tallies up precinct returns to allege that the 2020 election vote totals in Michigan exceeded the number of residents.

“Here’s the problem: the townships and precincts listed in [the relevant paragraphs of] the affidavit are not in Michigan,” author John Hinderaker wrote. “They are in Minnesota. Monticello, Albertville, Lake Lillian, Houston, Brownsville, Runeberg, Wolf Lake, Height of Land, Detroit Lakes, Frazee, Kandiyohi–these are all towns in Minnesota.”

That the affidavit is marked “Exhibit Q” has a special poetic justice considering that Wood represents the Republican Party’s Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, an adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory that holds her soon-to-be colleagues across the aisle are members of a sinister cabal of child-raping Satanists.

A 9/11 truther and anti-masker, Georgia’s Greene is big on 2020 election revisionism, too, parroting baseless theories about Dominion Voting Systems to explain why voters in the Peach State and across the county rejected the incumbent in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
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