co-conspirator. that prosecutor in the michigan state case also says that state criminal case there is still open, still ongoing. they re still investigating. but now only the day trump was convicted in his new york case, we find out in surprise testimony that federal prosecutors and fbi agents, as of right now, as of thursday, are interviewing people who saw what happened with the attempted overthrow of the election in michigan. there haven t been federal charges brought in michigan, right? i mean trump is already facing federal criminal charges for trying to overthrow the government and stay in power after losing the 2020 election. those charges were brought in d.c. but it would appear that that federal investigation into that overall matter is still open if federal prosecutors from d.c. and the fbi are still investigating and still interviewing people right now. if they are doing so and according to that police captain s testimony they are i would guess that the fbi and federal
what the contours might be of that federal investigation? well, the police captain who revealed this and everyone in the courtroom was surprised by this. the defense attorneys were surprised. even the judge kind of used the word surprised to talk about this statement that was made by the michigan police captain all of a sudden kind of out of the blue in kind of a traditional line of questioning. who else have you talked to? and this police captain said, oh, i talked to some people yesterday from washington, d.c. everyone kind of froze for a second. what do you mean you talked to someone from washington, d.c. yesterday? he said that this interview focused wholly on the electors. this was about the electors. this wasn t some other issue. this was an interview that lasted some amount of time, talking about these fake electoral votes that these people brought to the door of the michigan capitol on december 14th, 2020. he said that they didn t ask about specific individuals. he was re
capitol s closed. that was outside the michigan state capitol, december 2020. that scene ultimately led to the indictment of 16 alleged fake electors for donald trump in michigan. it led more recently to testimony in a michigan state courtroom on friday, this past friday. as reported in the detroit news, that same officer who turned the fake electors away at the door to the state capitol, he testified in court on friday that he, quote, had been interviewed thursday by someone from the federal bureau of investigation and two u.s. prosecutors from washington, d.c. thursday, of course, was also the day a jury in new york found donald trump guilty in a hush money plot to save his campaign in 2016. we now know that same day, federal investigators apparently were interviewing michigan law enforcement in a sign that there is an active federal investigation into the michigan fake electors scheme. as part of those same court hearings where this news came to
from that particular police official, the same guy who had to personally bar the door of the state capitol against the fake electors when they were trying to get in. and what he just testified in court last week is that on thursday, while trump was being convicted in his new york criminal case, he, this michigan state police captain now, he was being interviewed by the fbi and by federal prosecutors from washington, d.c. wait a second. i thought he was testifying in a state case, a state criminal case that s been brought against those fake electors. yes, he was testifying in the state criminal case, but he testified that he had just been in touch with federal prosecutors and the fbi. so in that michigan fake electors prosecution, michigan is one of four states where there are state criminal charges pending against trump s fake electors. in that state, trump is named assage unindicted
there was testimony from that particular police official, the same guy who had to personally bar the door of the state capitol against the fake electors when they were trying to get in, and what he just testified in court last week is that on thursday while trump was being convicted in his new york criminal case, he, this michigan state police captain now, he was being interviewed by the fbi and by federal prosecutors from washington, d.c. wait a second, i thought he was testifying in a state case, a state criminal case that s ben brought against those fake electors? yes, he was testifying in the state criminal case, but he testified that he had just been in touch with federal prosecutors and the fbi. so in that michigan fake electors prosecution, michigan is one of four states where there are state criminal charges pending against trump s fake electors. in that state trump is named as an unindicted co-conspirator.