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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's legal team humiliated after confusing Michigan with Minnesota in election fraud affidavit
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Donald Trumps 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 arent 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.,,,
Donald Trumps 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 arent 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
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tulipsandroses
(5,092 posts)1. This is so embarrassing. SNL can take the week off. Giuliani did their work for them.
They could not have written better scripts.
TomDaisy
(1,828 posts)2. the Deep State switched the exhibits!
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)3. "Oh ... um ... one of those 'M' states."
"There's just so many of them."
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)4. come on man
they can't even spell "humiliated" let alone feel it.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)5. Which is it? Ol' fashion incompetence OR a clever move to get 1 day extension?
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)6. I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem to me that ...
Giuliani is really worth $ 20,000 a day for his legal services.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)7. I'm sorry, but this is just funny.
Bunch of Trump University law school graduates here.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)8. There's a city called Detroit Lakes in Minnesota too
but they're professionals and should figure this out.
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)9. When will this effing year ever end????
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)10. 'Exhibit Q': Lawyer Lin Wood Submits that Michigan Is Really Minnesota in Failed Pro-Trump Election
The crux of Ramslands 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.
Heres 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, Kandiyohithese are all towns in Minnesota.
That the affidavit is marked Exhibit Q has a special poetic justice considering that Wood represents the Republican Partys 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, Georgias 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.
Heres 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, Kandiyohithese are all towns in Minnesota.
That the affidavit is marked Exhibit Q has a special poetic justice considering that Wood represents the Republican Partys 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, Georgias 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.