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TexasTowelie

(120,803 posts)
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 08:14 AM Dec 2020

Tempers rise, facts fade as Rudy Giuliani claims Michigan vote a 'con job'

LANSING — President Donald Trump’s personal attorney on Wednesday alleged a global conspiracy to swing the election for Democrat Joe Biden and urged Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature to try to overturn statewide results.

In a 4 1/2-hour hearing that concluded about 10:30 p.m. and was often tense and theatrical, Rudy Giuliani implored Michigan House members to “have the courage to say that certification that was done by your state is a complete phony.”

Giuliani at times commandeered the meeting, presenting his own witnesses and then questioning them about what he claimed with little evidence was “massive cheating” and a “con job” at the absentee ballot counting board in Detroit.

Committee Chair Matt Hall, R-Marshall, allowed lawmakers to ask each witness a single question, with no follow-ups. He gavelled down and shut off microphones for Democratic legislators who challenged that rule, and repeatedly urged the pro-Trump crowd not to shout or cheer during the testimony.

Read more: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/tempers-rise-facts-fade-rudy-giuliani-claims-michigan-vote-con-job

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Tempers rise, facts fade as Rudy Giuliani claims Michigan vote a 'con job' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
Unless you have evidence and enough of it, you have speculation. no_hypocrisy Dec 2020 #1
Aren't they also falsifying . . . Iliyah Dec 2020 #2
Man. I can't believe I live in this state and helped pay for this travesty. Biophilic Dec 2020 #3

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Aren't they also falsifying . . .
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 08:29 AM
Dec 2020

that North Korea through Maine port brought in illegal ballots? A 3 star General falsified that US soldiers went into Germany and obtained fake ballots (that was debunked by the Army). These people are nuts.

Biophilic

(5,620 posts)
3. Man. I can't believe I live in this state and helped pay for this travesty.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 10:12 AM
Dec 2020

I knew the Republican legislature was a bit over the top with idiots, but I had no idea they would go quit this low. I feel so sorry for the Democrats who had to participate in it. What a F'ing waste of time and money.

On the other hand, it certainly showed how bright and creative our fellow Republican citizens are. I'm so 'proud' of them.

I honestly thought the state was halfway sane. I see I'll have to re-think that.

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