Schemers or patsies? Michigan Republican electors played key role in Trump election plot – By M.L. Elrick (Detroit Free Press) / Aug 20, 2023
What was supposed to be a ceremonial meeting after the 2020 election has 16 Michigan Republicans facing up to 14 years in prison for signing a document declaring Trump the winner of a race he lost
One of my favorite things to do Up North is read a thriller, but the closest I came on a recent trip to Burt Lake was the affidavit Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel used to charge 16 folks with forgery and conspiracy.
Like “Moby Dick” — my only other option — it starts slow.
“I, Affiant …” doesn’t quite measure up to “Call me Ishmael,” but Nessel gets to her big fish a helluva lot sooner than Herman Melville.
By paragraph 28, Michigan Attorney General Special Investigator Howard Shook (the aforementioned “affiant” who signed the affidavit), describes a furtive meeting in Lansing on Dec. 14, 2020. Only GOP officials and 16 relatively minor political apparatchiks from across Michigan were allowed admittance to Michigan Republican Party headquarters. At least one spouse was left out in the cold.
