the defense attorneys were surprised, even the judge 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. kind of a traditional line of questioning, who else have you talked to, the police captain says i talked to people yesterday from washington, d.c. everyone kind of froze far 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 doorstep of the michigan capitol on december 14, 2020. he said that they didn t ask about specific individuals. he was read a list of some name, did they talk about this person, he said no. from what i could tell from his testimony it must have been overall what happened at the
he s not charged under michigan law, quote, yet. that prosecutor in the michigan state case also says that that state criminal case there is still open, still ongoing, they re still investigating. but now on 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 wou
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 light, we also learned that the state investigation in michigan might not have reached its conclusion yet either. state investigator telling the cour
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remarkable downstream career journey from the u.s. department of justice in washington, d.c. and then pops up in alvin bragg s office to go get trump and you are saying it s a career choice made nothing to do with the law fare coordinated. i did not dispatch mr. colangelo anywhere. that is false. do you know how he ended up there? i assume he applied for a job there and got the job. i had nothing to do with it. you might not have had anything to do with it but we have this evidence and mr. pomerantz s book. he writes this book that i m sure you are aware of where he says we put together the legal eagles to get trump. we got all these folks together and we assembled them for that purpose. when we on the judiciary committee think about attacks on the judicial process our concern is the facts and the law aren t being followed.