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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums🚨🚨Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time.
On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they'd look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the countys election results, according to the recordings.
"We've got to fight for our country," said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."
McDaniel, a Michigan native and the leader of the Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys."
To which Trump added: "We'll take care of that."
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🚨🚨Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Dec 2023
OP
Nevilledog
(51,819 posts)1. Kick cuz this is big
senseandsensibility
(17,569 posts)3. Caught red handed
for the thousandth time. Hope this makes it into a trial before the election!
2naSalit
(87,743 posts)7. +1
2naSalit
(87,743 posts)4. Oh Lordy!
Response to 2naSalit (Reply #4)
2naSalit This message was self-deleted by its author.
Kid Berwyn
(15,597 posts)9. Hi-Fidelity.
Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote
by Craig Mauger
The Detroit News, December 21, 2023
EXCERPT...
On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they'd look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the countys election results, according to the recordings.
"We've got to fight for our country," said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."
SNIP...
The recordings further demonstrated the direct involvement of Trump, as an incumbent president, with Republican officials in Michigan in a bid to undermine Biden's win and how some details of his efforts had remained secret as he launched a campaign to win back the White House in 2024.
Neither Palmer nor McDaniel, through a spokeswoman, disputed a summary of the call when contacted by The News. Hartmann died in 2021.
The News listened to audio that was captured in four recordings by someone present for the conversation between Trump and the canvassers. That information came to The News through an intermediary who also heard the recordings but who was not present when they were made. Sources presented the information to The News on the condition that they not be identified publicly for fear of retribution by the former president or his supporters.
SOURCE:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/
by Craig Mauger
The Detroit News, December 21, 2023
EXCERPT...
On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they'd look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the countys election results, according to the recordings.
"We've got to fight for our country," said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."
SNIP...
The recordings further demonstrated the direct involvement of Trump, as an incumbent president, with Republican officials in Michigan in a bid to undermine Biden's win and how some details of his efforts had remained secret as he launched a campaign to win back the White House in 2024.
Neither Palmer nor McDaniel, through a spokeswoman, disputed a summary of the call when contacted by The News. Hartmann died in 2021.
The News listened to audio that was captured in four recordings by someone present for the conversation between Trump and the canvassers. That information came to The News through an intermediary who also heard the recordings but who was not present when they were made. Sources presented the information to The News on the condition that they not be identified publicly for fear of retribution by the former president or his supporters.
SOURCE:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/
2naSalit
(87,743 posts)10. Thanks...
I saw that just before this one.
senseandsensibility
(17,569 posts)6. Kick!
Cha
(299,206 posts)8. Yes Big.. this should help get
Traitor Dics assface Convinced
TY
kwolf68
(7,383 posts)11. Should be Story A-1 on every channel
This man tried to destroy Democracy. But I am sure we need to know about Hunter's laptop, or something, anything else.
Trump is a fascist and a dictator in waiting yet the Republican Party is rubber stamping this mad man.
dalton99a
(82,120 posts)12. A must read.
Nevilledog
(51,819 posts)16. Yeah.... This is even worse than the fake electors in my mind.
TeamProg
(6,630 posts)13. Kick
ShazzieB
(16,973 posts)14. Is it okay if I feel just a tiny bit sorry for Mitt Romney?
Because he has a piece of trash maggot for a niece. He is one of the few Republicans who have resisted going along with Trump, and I respect him for that.
His niece, however, has evidently decided to get right down in the mud and wallow with rest of the MAGA pigs. Imagine having that in your family tree!
catbyte
(34,703 posts)15. Hartmann was another willfully ignorant Covid denier who ended up being killed by it in 2021.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Nevilledog
(51,819 posts)18. Can we give him a list of people we want him to touch?
Arazi
(6,829 posts)17. I hope Ronna has lawyered up
😈
Hope she gets sucked into ETTD