Michigan AG indicts 16 people in Trump fake electors plot: report
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Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday that sixteen individuals involved in the so-called fake electors scheme to reverse the results of the 2020 election and keep former President Donald Trump in power have been charged with eight federal felonies including forgery, NBC News reports.
"The 16 people being charged in Michigan allegedly met in the basement of the state's Republican Party headquarters and signed multiple certificates claiming they were 'the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the United States of America for the state of Michigan,' Nessel said in recorded remarks," according to NBC.
"That was a lie," Nessel stated. "They weren't the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it."
NBC notes that "some of the electors attempted to deliver these false documents to the state Senate, but were turned away, she said; the documents were later sent to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives 'with the intent that Vice President Pence would overturn the results of the election, using the false electoral slate,' Nessel said."
Nessel added, "The false electors' actions undermine the public's faith in the integrity of our elections and not only violated the spirit of the laws enshrining and defending our democracy, but we believe also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan and peaceably transfer power in America."
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