The fake electors' scheme is one of the most bizarre things I've encountered in politics. And I'm eleventy bazillion years old. Trump was entitled to ask for recounts. Trump was also allowed to file lawsuits. However, Lumpy was not entitled to assemble slates of fake electors, and there was a lot of that going around. And that applies to all of the participants.
Back to the subject, which is Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. And yeah, it is actually the subject. Ignore me today, please, thank you.
Nessel's office has dismissed one of the charges against one of the 16 people who (allegedly!) signed a document falsely claiming Trump, who lost the election, won the state's electoral votes in 2020 during an effort to overturn the results of the election.
NBC News reports:
The decision came after the alleged fake elector, James Renner, agreed to "cooperate fully" with the attorney general's investigation.
Renner was charged with eight felony counts, including election law forgery and conspiracy to commit election law forgery. At a court hearing Thursday morning, Assistant Attorney General LaDonna Logan moved to drop all charges “based on an agreement between the parties.”
Their scheme went terribly wrong. I'm unsure why they thought they could get away with this felonious plan.
Technically, presidents are voted in by slates of electors who cast their votes for the candidates selected by their states’ popular votes. As Trump tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, his allies readied slates of electors in multiple states.
The group of 16 Republicans met in December 2020 in the basement of the Michigan GOP headquarters, where they signed a certificate stating they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified electors," prosecutors said.
“That was a lie,” prosecutors said in the charging documents, adding that “they weren’t the duly elected and qualified electors and each of the defendants knew it.”
A copy of the cooperation agreement with Renner, obtained by NBC News, shows he promised to “cooperate fully” with the attorney general’s office on Oct. 10, agreeing to testify at trial and key hearings if called and provide investigators with “any and all relevant documents.”
The document indicates Renner promised to provide information connected to the key Dec. 14, 2020, meeting where the fake elector certificates were signed.
Specifically, Renner has agreed to provide information related to his being called and asked to appear at Michigan Republican Party headquarters, appearing at party headquarters and attending a meeting for the “Republican Slate,” as well as his identifying leaders of the meeting and other attendees and signing the “2020 Republican Slate” document and circumstances regarding his walking to the Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, according to the document.
Everything Trump touches dies. There are a lot of people going to prison because of Trump. Nixon never went to prison, but his attorney sure did.
