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Jocelyn Benson, Michigans top election official, faced an onslaught of threats after the 2020 presidential election for refusing to overturn results that showed Joe Biden had won the state. In those hectic weeks, she says she also received an especially disturbing piece of information: President Donald Trump suggested in a White House meeting that she should be arrested for treason and executed.
Benson, a Democrat, revealed the alleged remark for the first time in an interview with NBC News. She said she learned of it from a source familiar with Trumps White House meeting.
It was surreal and I felt sad, Benson said, recalling her reaction.
It certainly amplified the heightened sense of anxiety, stress and uncertainty of that time which I still feel in many ways because it showed there was no bottom to how far he (Trump) and his supporters were willing to stoop to overturn or discredit a legitimate election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/michigan-election-chief-trump-suggested-arrested-treason-executed-rcna29406
dweller
(23,628 posts)should be wary what he wishes for
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KS Toronado
(17,205 posts)Neither one cares about human life other than their own.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)mobeau69
(11,141 posts)Walleye
(31,011 posts)He said something like you could be running into legal trouble or something like that
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)I imagine that whenever he lost a game of whatever, he would threaten the other kid's life.
oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)Worked for me!
housecat
(3,121 posts)oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)housecat
(3,121 posts)patphil
(6,169 posts)How very Putin of him.
No need for a trial under the reign of Lord Trump. Just haul 'em in and kill 'em.
It's say so much that this guy was once President of the United States; none of it good.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)....Yes, will be found ..."Guilty as Charged" I do not care what happens to Trump. Do you?
patphil
(6,169 posts)I definitely want him to be tried and convicted for his crimes, and spend the remaining days of his life in a jail cell, with Rudy Guiliani as his cell mate.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)most seriously RICO - why the delay here?
reaches all the way to conspiracy for all who were present; glad theyre all true failures!
dchill
(38,472 posts)Novara
(5,841 posts)And that makes the GOP's penises shrivel right up.
Kid Berwyn
(14,881 posts)Where not even an official Tucker Carlson testicle tanner can reach, but will try.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)We may be able to make America great again after all.
Traildogbob
(8,716 posts)And Collins were threatened worse. Right? And were instantly given security. Not like a President threatened to execute them.