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 countys voting machines and pass them to Trumps 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 cant just say: give them here. We dont 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 presidents representatives to make such a request of a local prosecutor. I never expected in my life Id get a call like this, Rossiter said.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)Hes got some info on Trump the DOJ is interested in.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Traitors.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)Can he fall further?
PatSeg
(46,806 posts)he just falls further. There seems to be no bottom. Brings to mind the final scene of "Nightmare Alley".
IbogaProject
(2,694 posts)Incompetent too, just a media mirage an empty suit with an empty head.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)this really happened.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)captain queeg
(10,036 posts)Nothing suspicious about that.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)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)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.
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maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)"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
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)With no consequences?
musclecar6
(1,681 posts)Told them they could, just like that con man liar and a cheat has done his whole life.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Give me the voting machines!
Ill give you five to ten for election fraud if you ever come in here again.