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FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump pushed local officials not to certify 2020 election results in Michigan, according to audio recordings cited in a news report yesterday.
In phone call recordings revealed by The Detroit News outlet, Trump reportedly pressured two local officials not to sign the certification of vote results in their county.
He allegedly told the two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers that “we’ve got to fight for our country” and that “we can’t let these people take our country away from us.”
The phone call came two weeks after the 3 November election, in which Trump lost the state of Michigan.
Also present on the call was Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, a Michigan native, who at one point told the two: “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
Trump agreed, adding, “We’ll take care of that.”
About 18% of the northern state’s population lives in Wayne County and approximately 878,000 votes were cast there in the 2020 election, according to The Detroit News.
The 77-year-old Trump is to go on trial in Washington in March on federal charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the November 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
He faces similar charges in a separate case in the southern state of Georgia, where he famously pressured secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in a taped call to “find” 11,780 votes that would reverse his defeat to Biden in the state.
In the Michigan call, Trump told the two Republican members of the county board, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, that they would look “terrible” if they certified the election results.
He said this was especially because they had initially voted against them before later voting to approve the results.
McDaniel said in a statement to The Detroit News that “What I said publicly and repeatedly at the time… is that there was ample evidence that warranted an audit.”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung meanwhile said that Trump’s actions were part of his duty to “ensure election integrity, including investigating the rigged and stolen 2020 presidential election.”
Trump has repeatedly stated the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged for Biden.
The accusations come as Trump runs again for president and is poised to nab the Republican nomination in 2024 – despite both state and federal charges against him.
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Where did this poll sprout from?
Brussels
Yes … mixed with bacon bits and cooked in oven….mmmmm
I like an odd sprout or two and am partial to a gallon or two of bud.
@windbag: Definitely! Crispy bacon bits, a bit of butter to give them that warm texture, salt/pepper – noice!
And pine nuts…..yum yum
Fries with onion and bacon in soy sauce
Brussels sprouts, bacon with some sherry cream sauce, delicious: https://www.google.ie/amp/s/allrecipes.com/recipe/216028/brussels-sprouts-in-a-sherry-bacon-cream-sauce/amp/?client=ms-android-alcatel
I’d eat a Turkey made of sprouts…
I love sprouts.
I’d eat button sprouts EVERY day if l could, but on the contrary, l can’t bear to watch my 12 year old daughter’s face when l reply to her: “whats for dinner” ? Question…l suppose it’s an aquired taste..
You’re not supposed to serve it as the main element of the dinner.
cover them in chocolate and save them for the kids on halloween
Hovercraft fuel, I love ‘em. I actually love the stalk as well , boiled in the water off the bacon.. yummmm
Has to be the bacon/ham water
@ Elanor, serious respect.
Done with lots of bacon bits
George Say”s – more “Journal” nonsense.
Love them shredded and fried with smoked bacon butter black pepper and nutmeg
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