Speaker 1: By the way, amazingly good news yesterday, in addition to Trump's potentially
third forthcoming arrest, the fake Trump Michigan electors have been charged. This
is just phenomenal. Let me remind you, in many states around the country, in the aftermath of the
2020 election that Joe Biden won. It's crazy. But worth mentioning that election that Joe Biden won.
Republicans we really know now inspired by Trump's inner circle.
Had the idea of even though Joe Biden won, what if we just send Republican electors to say we
cast our electoral votes for Donald Trump? What about that? And when this news broke that this
had taken place in Arizona and Michigan and other places, we thought to ourselves, it's
going to be some crime here, Right? And then the legal experts weighed in and they said, oh, yeah,
there are potentially crimes here. We are now starting to see the other shoe drop as the as the
term may be with regard to the fake electors scam starting in Michigan, the Detroit News reports 16
false Trump electors face felony charges in Michigan. This is very good news. Very good.
Speaker 3: News. Thank your lucky stars every day. Speaker 1: You're not well, thank your lucky
stars. Not that you're not Dave Pacman, but thank your lucky stars. As the Detroit News reports,
Attorney General Dana Nessel is leveling felony charges against 16 Republicans who
signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump won Michigan's 2020 presidential election,
launching criminal cases against top political figures inside the state Republican Party.
Each of the 16 electors, including former Michigan Republican Party co-chairwoman
Michonne Maddock and Shelby Township clerk Stan Groat, have been charged with eight felony counts,
including forgery and conspiracy to commit election law forgery.
The revelation capped six months of investigation and produced the most serious allegations yet in
Michigan over the campaign to overturn Trump's loss to Biden in 2020. You may recall this These
are the results now. Biden won the state by 154,000 votes or 3%. Trump supporters
and Trump and supporters maintained false, unproven claims that fraud swung the result
as part of the push to undermine Biden's victory. Trump supporters gathered inside the then Michigan
Republican Party headquarters on December 14. They signed a certificate claiming that they were
casting the state's 16 electoral votes for Trump. The false certificate was sent to the National
Archives and Congress. It inaccurately said that Trump electors met inside the Capitol. However,
they hadn't. They met Biden's electors met inside the Capitol. The false electors actions undermined
the public's faith in the integrity of our elections, and we also believe plainly violated
the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan. Interestingly, the 16 defendants are all
relatively older folks. You will see that ages are 70, 72, 55, 75, 71, 82, 65, 56, 73, 55, 76,
four more in their sixties. And Rose Rooke, who is 81 years old now, Republicans are saying, oh,
these are politically motivated charges. There is another aspect to this, which is that these
are serious enough charges that if convicted and actually sentenced anywhere close to the maximum
sentences, those are likely life sentences for many of these individuals based on their advanced
age, statistically speaking. This is serious business. This is also very good news. Yes, Trump
and his acolytes masterminded this entire fake elector scam. They did it in Arizona, Michigan
and elsewhere. But at a certain point, if you're really going to put your money where your mouth is
on personal responsibility, then you have to say that these folks also have to be held accountable.
Remember this video where the fake electors tried to crash the certification of the actual electors
in Michigan? They tried to come in via a side door and police stop them. We looked at this back in
December of 2020. Here's a quick reminder. Speaker 2: They're also of the government.
And I'm not going to get into a political debate and polling or political debate.
The officials seem to have also the GOP electorate, they are here. They're trying
to do their constitutional duty. Speaker 1: Of course, it is not
their constitutional duty to show up and cast fraudulent ballots for the guy who didn't win.
Speaker 2: And their constitutional duty requires them to be in the
Senate chamber today. And you're not. Unidentified: And I understand you have
a problem here. Speaker 1:
All right. So you remember this. These are the folks who are now being charged, if indeed the
evidence is similar. Remember, folks were careful on this program. We just know go lock them up,
lock this person up. If the evidence in Arizona and other states about the actions of these fake
electors is similar to that in Michigan, then they should also be charged in Arizona and
elsewhere. This is called accountability. This is called due process. This is called
the rule of law. And it is called personal responsibility, for which these Republicans
have been advocating for decades. This is what it looks like to be responsible for your actions.