Michigan's Seditious Sixteen
Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes, but that did not stop 16 fake electors who conspired to overturn the election by forging election certificates that falsely claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
Trump's most loyal supporters often end up in jail. Eleven of his top associates have been criminally indicted and over a 1,000 January 6 rioters have been arrested. Now add 16 GOP fake electors charged with 8 felony counts for submitting to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives forged election law documents falsely claiming that Trump won the state and that they were Michigan's electors “duly organized” and in “the manner provided by law.”
A protester waves a Trump flag during a rally organized by a group called Election Integrity Fund and Force at the Michigan state Capitol on Oct. 12, 2021 (Jake May/The Flint Journal)
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If they hang around Donald Trump long enough, people start to believe his lies. And if they’re not careful, they risk going to jail.
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Michigan's Attorney General filed state felony charges today against 16 Michigan fake Trump electors, but she is not alone in her focus on this aspect of Donald Trump's scheme to undo his 2020 election defeat, with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney known to be talking to Georgia fake electors, and investigations in Arizona and other swing states (not to mention special counsel Jack Smith's investigation).