allegations of electoral manipulation
They wanted to confirm Trump as president: 16 “fake voters” in Michigan accused of conspiracy
Ex-US President Donald Trump
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Michigan is in the aftermath of the 2020 US election. Several Donald Trump supporters have been charged with conspiracy. Meanwhile, even after the indictment, the ex-president is waiting for his trial to begin.
The 2020 presidential election is still preoccupying the United States. Three years later, attempts to prevent the change of power in Washington are the focus of the courts. The judiciary in the US state of Michigan is currently going against several supporters of the former president Donald Trump for trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. Sixteen men and women are accused of secretly meeting in the basement of Michigan Republican Party headquarters on December 14, 2020 — just weeks after the election — and signing certificates posing as state voters, such as the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
“That was a lie. They were not the properly elected and appointed electors – and each of the defendants knew that,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a video message. They would have carried out the orchestrated action in the hope and belief that their votes would benefit their preferred candidate, Trump, and not the elected Joe Biden. The allegations are about conspiracy to falsify elections and documents.
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In the United States, the president is elected indirectly. Representing the people, 538 electors cast their votes according to the results in the 50 states and the capital district of Washington – after the 2020 election this vote took place on December 14th. The vote of the electors is usually a formality. Republican incumbent Trump had doubted Democrat Biden’s victory and refused to admit defeat.
An indictment is currently pending against the former US President himself, and it is still uncertain when the trial could begin. Judge Aileen Cannon has not yet made a decision on the question of the affair of secret government documents, as several US media reported unanimously after the session in a federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida on Tuesday.
However, she announced that she wanted to issue a written order “immediately”, reports the “New York Times” and “Washington Post”, among others. The court also dealt with the question of how to deal with the secret documents in the trial.
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Trump was indicted at the federal level in June for storing top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida property and failing to return them when requested. At the beginning of August 2022, the Federal Police FBI searched Trump’s villa and confiscated several sets of documents classified as top secret. The Republican pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in Miami in June.
Trump’s attorneys last week requested a stay of the trial, citing the complexity of the case and the fact that their client is running for the Republican presidential nomination. For its part, the US Department of Justice had asked for a delay until December 11, 2023, after the court had previously set August 14.
When the trial against Trump begins is particularly important because of the presidential election next year. If he is even delayed until after the election and Trump wins, he could seek to pardon himself as president or have the charges against him dropped.