Both Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are likely interested in obtaining a copy of the recording of former President Donald Trump pressuring Michigan election officials, according to a former federal judge. In an interview with Politico, J. Michael Luttig — a George H.W. Bush-appointed judge who served on the 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals — opined that the November 17, 2020 call the Detroit News first reported on would be valuable in both the ongoing Washington, DC and Georgia prosecutions....

Lordy, there are tapes. Make that, MORE tapes! On Thursday, the Detroit Free Press that it had a recording from November 17, 2020 of Trump arm-twisting by phone Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, two Republican “canvassers,” to get them not to certify the vote in Wayne County, Michigan.Biden won that county, where Detroit sits, by more than twice the votes he needed to turn the state his way. Canvassers are ordinary citizens appointed by the parties to the small local boards that certify county elections. According to the Free Press,...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says, “I was really gratified that there was additional evidence,” after a phone call recording was reported by The Detroit News that Former President Trump was pressuring election officials in Wayne County to not certify the 2020 presidential election results. “It’s shockingly antithetical to what any leader should do. No matter whether or not if you like the results of a particular election does not give you the ability to try to interfere with a legal process,” said Secretary Benson. Matt...

Following the report that former President Donald tried to pressure canvassers in Michigan to block certification of election results, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wrote a about the threat the former president still poses in The Daily Beast. "For me, the lowest moment in the post-election battle to protect Michigan’s accurate and legitimate election results in 2020 was not when armed protestors stormed my home," wrote Benson. "It wasn’t when a gathering of Trump supporters showed up to Michigan’s State Capitol demanding to be let in as the state’s...

Former President Trump urged two members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to a report from The Detroit News. The Detroit News claims to have reviewed tapes from a Nov. 17, 2020 phone call between Trump and GOP canvassers Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, when he urged them not to sign the certification. "We've got to fight for our country," said Trump on the recording, according to The Detroit News. He added, "We can't let these people take...

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? — “Prices Fell in November for the First Time Since 2020. Inflation Is Approaching Fed Target,” by WSJ’s David Harrison and Amara Omeokwe: “The Fed’s preferred inflation measure, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, fell 0.1% in November from the previous month, the first decline since April 2020, the Commerce Department said Friday. Prices were up 2.6% on the year, not far from the Fed’s 2% target.” Related read: “How Biden allies learned to love the Fed — or, at least, dread it less,” by Adam Cancryn CALL OF...

The former president's 2024 campaign neither confirmed nor denied the recording's legitimacy, insisting in a statement that all of Trump's actions after his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden were taken to uphold his oath of office and ensure fair elections. Trump has consistently repeated falsehoods about the 2020 election as he runs again for the White House. No evidence has emerged in a litany of federal, state and outside investigations of voter fraud that could have changed the outcome of the election. The Nov. 17, 2020, telephone call included then-President...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said she “wasn’t surprised” by news that former President Donald Trump allegedly pressured Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to refuse to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Benson, a Democrat who spent most of 2020 warning about the potential for disinformation over election results, told CNN that the revelation, first reported late Thursday night by the Detroit News, was further evidence of Trump’s efforts to upend a free and fair election. “It’s quite extraordinary,” said Benson. “We had...

Donald Trump pressured two election officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a new report by the Detroit News. The former president ‘s 2024 campaign neither confirmed nor denied the recording’s legitimacy, insisting in a statement that all of Trump’s actions after his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden were taken to uphold his oath of office and ensure fair elections. Trump has consistently repeated falsehoods about the 2020 election as he runs again for...