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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:54 PM Nov 2020

Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House

Source: Washington Post

Complete headline: Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House as he escalates attempts to overturn election results

President Trump has invited the leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature to meet him in Washington on Friday, according to a person familiar with those plans, as the president and his allies continue an extraordinary campaign to overturn the results of an election he lost.

Trump’s campaign has suffered defeats in courtrooms across the country in its efforts to allege irregularities with the ballot-counting process, and has failed to muster any evidence of the widespread fraud that the president continues to claim tainted the 2020 election.

Trump lost Michigan by a wide margin: At present, he trails President-Elect Joe Biden in the state by 157,000 votes. Earlier this week, the state’s Republican Senate majority leader said an effort to have legislators throw out election results was “not going to happen.”

But the president now appears to be using the full weight of his office to challenge the election results, as he and his allies reach out personally to state and local officials in an intensifying effort to halt the certification of the vote in key battleground states.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/



It's blatant, in your face sedition.
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Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House (Original Post) Zorro Nov 2020 OP
Trump Wont Be Able To Protect Traitors DanieRains Nov 2020 #1
I'm sure each of these reps has legal representation C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #2
CIVIL WAR is necessary if they do this...They need to believe that. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2020 #3
I hope the names of those who show up are released. pat_k Nov 2020 #4
Impeach! SunSeeker Nov 2020 #5
Trump is just itching for a prison cell. marble falls Nov 2020 #6
Blockade the White House BlueIdaho Nov 2020 #7
This is blatant election tampering. patphil Nov 2020 #8

C_U_L8R

(45,001 posts)
2. I'm sure each of these reps has legal representation
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:58 PM
Nov 2020

and if their lawyers aren't advising them "don't go" then they aren't looking out for their clients' interest very well.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)
4. I hope the names of those who show up are released.
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 06:13 PM
Nov 2020

It wouldn't surprise me if the keep the names secret in an effort to avoid the public outrage they would be subjected to. If they don't release the names, every Republican in the legislature needs to be subjected to the full force of the public's outrage. It needs to be clear that going along with Trump's plans will make them pariahs.

patphil

(6,172 posts)
8. This is blatant election tampering.
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 10:50 PM
Nov 2020

I would hope these Republicans would be smart enough to decline the invitation; it would be the ethical thing to do. But ethics seems to be lost on the Republican Party these days.

I will withhold my opinion until I see what they actually do, and what the state board of canvassers does on Monday.


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