According to the Detroit News, Donald Trump and Ronna McDaniel were caught on a recording pressuring two Wayne County, Michigan canvassers not to certify the 2020 vote.
Detroit News reports that Ronna asked the two canvassers to go home and not sign the vote certification, saying she’d get them lawyers. Trump agreed.
Here’s the report:
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 voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.
“We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”
McDaniel, a Michigan native and the leader of the Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
To which Trump added: “We’ll take care of that.”
Palmer and Hartmann left the canvassers meeting without signing the official statement of votes for Wayne County, and the following day, they unsuccessfully attempted to rescind their votes in favor of certification, filing legal affidavits claiming they were pressured.
The moves from Palmer, Hartmann and Trump, had they been successful, threatened to throw the statewide certification of Michigan’s 2020 election into doubt.
“The moves from Palmer, Hartmann and Trump…” It’s funny to me how they leave Ronna out and only focus on Trump. She was the one who told them to go home and not to sign it. She was the one who said “we will get you attorneys.” But the media doesn’t care about that. It’s all about Trump.