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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 01:07 PM Feb 2022

Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team

Source: Washington Post

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team, the prosecutor told The Washington Post.

Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter said in an interview that Giuliani and several colleagues made the request during a telephone call after the county initially misreported its election results. The inaccurate tallies meant that Joe Biden appeared to have beaten Trump by 3,000 votes in a Republican stronghold, an error that soon placed Antrim at the center of false claims by Trump that the election had been stolen.

Rossiter said he declined. “I said, ‘I can’t just say: give them here.’ We don’t have that magical power to just demand things as prosecutors. You need probable cause.” Even if he had had sufficient grounds to take the machines as evidence, Rossiter said, he could not have released them to outsiders or a party with an interest in the matter.

Legal scholars said it was unusual and inappropriate for a president’s representatives to make such a request of a local prosecutor. “I never expected in my life I’d get a call like this,” Rossiter said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/

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Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2022 OP
Lawyers who think laws are for other people need to be disbarred. L. Coyote Feb 2022 #1
Isn't Rudy in a strait jacket by now? oldsoftie Feb 2022 #2
Rudy's going to jail...unless... Fiendish Thingy Feb 2022 #3
So THAT's how they would get the "right results." Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #4
How far has crazy Rudy fallen? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 #5
Every time I ask that, PatSeg Feb 2022 #11
He was always a sleeze bag IbogaProject Feb 2022 #16
this. is. not. the. onion. rurallib Feb 2022 #6
Sure, show us the real money for replacing them...sans hard drives Hestia Feb 2022 #7
So they wanted to collect voting machines, but only in places trump lost? captain queeg Feb 2022 #8
Is that not, in and of itself, election tampering? hamsterjill Feb 2022 #9
We all know DownriverDem Feb 2022 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2022 #15
"Hey, we're just asking!" maxsolomon Feb 2022 #12
Why would they think they could do whatever they wanted? Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #13
Cause the orange Adolph musclecar6 Feb 2022 #14
Let me be at that meeting jmowreader Feb 2022 #17

PatSeg

(46,806 posts)
11. Every time I ask that,
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 03:21 PM
Feb 2022

he just falls further. There seems to be no bottom. Brings to mind the final scene of "Nightmare Alley".

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
8. So they wanted to collect voting machines, but only in places trump lost?
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 02:04 PM
Feb 2022

Nothing suspicious about that.

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
9. Is that not, in and of itself, election tampering?
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 02:07 PM
Feb 2022

Or at a minimum intent to tamper with an election?

I betcha I would be in jail if I had done that.

DownriverDem

(6,206 posts)
10. We all know
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 02:53 PM
Feb 2022

how they thought they could flip Michigan including Wayne County where I live. If you recall trump called the top repubs to come to DC so he could get them to change the vote here. The repub commissioner who would not vote against the results here was replaced. If not for the strong women we have as Governor, AG and SOS things would be really bad here.

Response to DownriverDem (Reply #10)

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
12. "Hey, we're just asking!"
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 04:01 PM
Feb 2022

"It's only attempted Election Fraud; no crime was committed because it didn't work! Move on, Radical Leftists!"

that's me being a sedition apologist. i don't really think that. it is

musclecar6

(1,681 posts)
14. Cause the orange Adolph
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 06:15 PM
Feb 2022

Told them they could, just like that con man liar and a cheat has done his whole life.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
17. Let me be at that meeting
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 10:24 PM
Feb 2022

“Give me the voting machines!”

“I’ll give you five to ten for election fraud if you ever come in here again.”

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