Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.

Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time.

On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they’d look “terrible” if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.

“We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”

McDaniel, a Michigan native and the leader of the Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    11 months ago

    Another blatant crime that we are all witness to. Another open-and-shut case that we’ll still need to investigate for years for some fucking reason.

      • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
        26·
        11 months ago

        If you come at me you can pretty much lock me up for life with zero evidence by just never prosecuting me and forgetting I exist after arresting me because the cop didn’t like my attitude.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
          2·
          11 months ago

          It’s a reference to a tv show. The point is he is a powerful, influential, and dangerous person. A not guilty verdict will make him stronger and more vengeful. A careful, foolproof investigation is the best strategy to take him down.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    54·
    11 months ago

    We will get you attorneys

    And this was the moment they knew they had to sign the certification and bail out before they were in more problems.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    52·
    11 months ago

    Oh, they can idict Mc Daniel too, lol.

    Damn the Republican party seems to be filled to the brim with criminals, don’t it?

    • sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      Alright Ronna, you’ve been facing MAGA pressure for your ouster the past few months, here’s your chance to do the right thing (hell of an ask for a Republican) / get payback

  • ersatz@infosec.pub
    48·
    11 months ago

    “We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”

    These people. Our country. “Us.” It’s not a dog whistle, it’s a bullhorn. If you aren’t a white, christian male they don’t even acknowledge you as a citizen of this country. They are the “real” Americans and the rest of us are just guests. Guests that they want to evict.

    I’ve got nothing more to add but to exhort all of you to vote next year.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      Also, usually, if you’re white but not Christian, you’re not white to them. Hence Elon agreeing with a tweet saying that Jews are destroying white people.

  • DrPop
    7·
    11 months ago

    Inb4 “he never said not to certify it”

  • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    11 months ago

    I had hoped Obama getting elected was going to really bolster unification and the progressive isolation and disarming of racist, bigoted, and hateful views that would ultimately enable continued progress through the election of a woman as president to re-establish the US as a beacon of hope and prosperity. Instead we are here.

    These racist assholes need to go. Reagan would be demonized by current republicans. https://youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8?feature=shared

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      If he successfully kept states from certifying their votes, then Congress wouldn’t have been able to name a winner on January 6th. At that point, the vote would have gone to the House. In the House, each states’ Representatives vote and the winner gets that state’s vote. The candidate who wins the most states wins.

      The Republicans hold the majority here and Trump would have been elected President regardless of the actual election result. So keeping the election from being certified was a last ditch effort to overturn the election results and “win” despite the fact that he lost.