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steve2470

(37,468 posts)
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 08:36 PM Dec 2020

Giuliani endorses threatening Michigan lawmakers for Trump

Giuliani, with Michigan GOP chair Cox beside him, urged activists to pressure lawmakers to remember their oath to the constitution & to award electors to Trump. 'Sometimes it even requires being threatened.'





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https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-legislature-constitutions-1d853c0a4cdf262ce45e2814b39731d2

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer urged Michigan Republican activists on Wednesday to pressure, even threaten, the GOP-controlled Legislature to “step up” and award the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump despite Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory.

Rudy Giuliani made baseless claims of “massive fraud, all over the country,” before testifying to a Republican-led legislative committee. Just a day before, Attorney General William Barr declared the Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.

GOP legislative leaders have said they will not try to replace Michigan’s electors.

Giuliani said the U.S. Constitution empowers legislatures to appoint electors directly, even though the Legislature long ago passed a law allotting them to the popular vote winner. Biden won the state by 2.8 percentage points. The result was certified by the state’s bipartisan election board last week.
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Giuliani endorses threatening Michigan lawmakers for Trump (Original Post) steve2470 Dec 2020 OP
Fuck their stupid Gaslighting Cha Dec 2020 #1
Isn't what he's doing illegal? A representative of the President trying to Crunchy Frog Dec 2020 #2

Crunchy Frog

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2. Isn't what he's doing illegal? A representative of the President trying to
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 08:48 PM
Dec 2020

strong-arm state officials into overturning election results?

Can somebody please take him to court over this?

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