left, spoke at a q-anon experience theory conference late last year, she is now the official republican party nominee to be secretary of state in michigan which means she will be in charge of overseeing elections for the whole state if she wins in november. that prospect is especially frightening in a state like michigan, you might remember that during the last presidential election, michigan s republican party came within centimeters of not certifying biden s election victory even though he clearly won in michigan and by a lot. in the end it came down with one republican member of a michigan state canvassing board who resisted tons of pressure from his own party that he should agree to overturn the election results. he voted to certify joe biden s victory. michigan republicans then decided to retaliate against him and refused to let him keep that job on the state canvassing board and replaced him with a new republican, a conservative activist named tony daunt. and today mr. daunt that
case, the protesters were trying to get at, trying to get at trump s, then putet it, trump s established pattern of him asking people to physicallybl attack others. him asking people, particularly to physically attack other people who are protesting against him. that argument, that line of argument in the civil case, that trump directed those security guards to attack and physically beat up those protesters, that is a pattern that trump had established and has publicly displayed,ta that line of argumt from theye plaintiffs in the cil case against trump, that s why this video was actually played in that deposition ahead of the questioning that i just read. so if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously. okay. just knock the hell i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. i promise.
investigation and they gave him taxpayer dollars to do it, and blew through multiple deadlines before he eventually released a 136-page report that did not prove any allegations of election fraud, but it did darkly mention facebook s ceo mark zuckerberg more than 150 times. on average, more than once per page. so without any proof of any fraud, but, you know, saying zuckerberg a lot, wisconsin republicans decided that would be enough for them to try to decertify the election results and say president biden didn t win there at all. that s what they tried. it hasn t worked out for them so far. after about ten months of this, it was starting to look like wisconsin republicans might be ready to start winding down that exercise. particularly given how much taxpayer money it was costing but then, the pro-trump who had been put in charge of the shenanigans wants to keep the job and keep the thing going, he started making regular
question, you said you were talking to the audience. but is the same true of your security?am do you expect your security to knock the crack out of someone if they see them about answer, i was talking about the audience. question, mr. president, please let me finish the question so we can getle the whole record very clear. is it your expectation that if your security guard seesxp somee about to throw a tomato, that they should knock the crap out of thatha person. answer, trump, well, a tomato, a pineapple, a lot of other things they throw, yeah, i think that they have to be aggressive in stopping that from happening, because if that vehappens, you n beus killed if that happens. question, and getting aggressive in your terms, that includes the use of physical force? answer, trump, to stop somebody from throwing pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that, yeah, it s dangerous
dangerous. question, who were you speaking to when you said answer, trump, the audience. question, so you were speaking to the audience when you said if they saw someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you? answer, trump, that was to the audience. it was said sort of in jest, but maybe, you know, a little truth to it. it s veryto dangerous stuff. you can get killed with those things. question, so were you trying to incentivize people to engage in violence? trump s lawyer, objection. trumpp answers anyway. no, i wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. and some fruit is a lot worse than, tomatoes are bad, by the way, but it s very dangerous. question, do you have any knowledge as to whether or not anybody was found to have tomatoes in their possession on that date? answer, trump, i don t know. but it didn t happen. it worked out that nothing happened. it was, the speech was good.