(Washington) Former President Donald Trump and several of his relatives are among the unindicted conspirators targeted by criminal proceedings in Michigan (north) for attempting to reverse the results of the 2020 election, a report revealed on Wednesday. investigator, cited by the American media.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel initiated proceedings in July 2023 against 16 “fake Republican electors”. Fifteen pleaded not guilty on 16e agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for dropping charges against him.
In addition to these 16 people, the investigation concerns several “unindicted conspirators”, including Donald Trump, his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his last chief of staff at the White House, Mark Meadows, as well as one of his former lawyers , Jenna Ellis, said Special Agent Howard Shock during a preliminary hearing in Lansing, Michigan.
All four are also among the 19 people targeted by justice proceedings in Georgia (southeast), another key state, for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
Agent Shock, when questioned by the lawyer of one of the alleged false voters, answered “yes” to the question of whether each of these four people was considered a “conspirator”.
Under American legal tradition, the names of conspirators are not published by the prosecution until they are prosecuted.
According to Prosecutor Nessel, in December 2020, the 16 defendants met “secretly” in the basement of the state Republican Party headquarters to sign documents certifying that they were the legitimate electors of Michigan.
These false certificates were then sent to the US Senate in order to be substituted for those of the Democratic voters in Michigan, a state won in 2020 by the Democratic candidate Joe Biden and not by the outgoing Republican president.
In the United States, the president is chosen by indirect universal suffrage, with each state allocating its electors, the number of which essentially depends on its population, to the candidate who comes first.
This plan to substitute false electors for those of Joe Biden in seven key states is at the heart of the conspiracy of which Donald Trump is accused in federal proceedings in Washington and by those of the justice system in Georgia.