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The two commissioners, William Hartmann and Monica Palmer, didn’t sign the county’s official vote statement that night. The call has echoes of another significant recording: Trump’s January 2021 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find” just enough votes to overturn his defeat.

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...

The emergence of a recording in which Donald Trump appears to urge two canvassers in Wayne County, Michigan, to not certify the 2020 presidential election result is "perfect evidence" against the former president—according to one attorney.

Donald Trump pushed local officials not to certify 2020 election results in Michigan, according to audio recordings cited in a news report Thursday, new allegations against the ex-president who already faces multiple charges of election interference. The accusations come as Trump runs again for president and is poised to nab the Republican nomination in 2024 -- despite both state and federal charges against him. In phone call recordings revealed by The Detroit News outlet, Trump reportedly pressured two local officials not to sign the certification of vote results in their...

According to four recordings listened to by the Detroit News, which were reportedly made by a person present during the conversation, the then-president and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, spoke with Monica Palmer and William Hartmann — Republican members of the county’s Board of Canvassers — on Nov. 17, 2020. At the time, Trump was falsely claiming the election had been stolen from him, filing dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits based on unfounded claims of voter fraud. During a meeting of the election board earlier that day, Palmer and...

Former President Trump reportedly pushed Michigan canvassers to not certify the results of the 2020 during a phone call, according to recordings obtained by The Detroit News. “We’ve got to fight for our country,” Trump said on the recordings, per the Detroit newspaper. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.” The call, with Republican Wayne County Canvassers Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, occurred on Nov. 17, 2020, according to The Detroit News. It also involved Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel. “If you can go home...

Former President Donald Trump pushed two Republican members of Michigan’s Wayne County Board of Canvassers to not certify the 2020 presidential election, according to audio recordings reviewed by the Detroit News, which comes as Trump faces two election interference cases and disqualification from Colorado’s 2024 ballot.

According to the Detroit News and the recordings they reviewed, then-President Trump personally pressured two Republican Michigan canvassers to not certify the 2020 election. The Detroit News says the recordings reveal that Trump told 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. The Trump campaign released a statement saying "all of President Trump’s actions were taken in furtherance of his duty as...

During his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump called two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to pressure them not to certify the election’s results, according to a recording of the phone call obtained by The Detroit News. “We’ve got to fight for our country,” Trump told the canvassers on a Nov. 17, 2020 call that also included Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, according to the report. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.” The two canvassers, William Hartmann and...

Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican officials in Michigan to not certify election results in the state, according to a report. The then-president told the officials, both members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, in a 17 November 2020 phone call that they would look “terrible” if they certified the results. According to The Detroit News, which obtained audio of the call, Mr Trump went on to tell the officials, “We’ve got to fight for our country.” Mr Trump also reportedly told the officials, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann,...