Michigan secretary of state interviewed by special counsel’s office: report

12 July 2023

Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was interviewed by United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's office "for several hours" amid the criminal investigation into the scheme to reverse the results of the 2020 election, CNN's Zachary Cohen exclusively reported on Wednesday.

Benson's conversation with Smith's lieutenants "marks yet another recent meeting between prosecutors and officials from key battleground states that were targeted by former President Donald Trump and his allies as part of their bid to upend Joe Biden's legitimate victory in the 2020 presidential election," Cohen learned from people "familiar with the matter."

It also "came after her office complied with a subpoena from Smith late last year, turning over a broad swath of documents that included communications between Michigan election officials, former Trump lawyers, and individuals working for the former president's campaign," Cohen noted.

"Included in the documents provided to Smith's office," Cohen continued, "was an email from a local Michigan elections official reporting a voicemail they received from someone who identified themselves as a lawyer working for Trump's then-personal attorney Rudy Giuliani."

Michigan was one of several key swing states that Trump won in 2016 but narrowly lost in 2020. Trump has maintained that the contest between him and Biden was "rigged," despite there being no evidence to support that claim and dozens of court cases that determined it to be false.

Cohen's article is available here.

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