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special prosecutor Jack Smith expands allegations in criminal case against Donald Trump for attempting to overturn 2020 election
Trump pressured a top Republican to spread false claims about Michigan voting machines after the election, according to new filing
A Trump campaign employee allegedly ‘sought to create chaos’ in Detroit as allies tried to block absentee ballot counting

A Donald Trump campaign operative urged a colleague to “make them riot” in Detroit as supporters gathered outside an absentee ballot counting center the day after the 2020 election, according to a newly unsealed court filing.

This story also appeared in Bridge Michigan

“Do it!!!,” the unnamed campaign employee allegedly said in discussions about the TCF Center, where Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread fraud fueled an unsuccessful effort to block ballot counting in the heavily Democratic city.

The conversation was among a handful of new Michigan-related details publicly released Wednesday as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing case against Trump, the former president who is accused of felonies for attempting to overturn his loss.

Smith described the campaign employee as a co-conspirator who had brushed off warnings that potential “unrest” in Detroit could escalate to resemble a violent effort to stop vote counting in Florida’s 2000 presidential election.

The unnamed campaign operative “sought to create chaos” in Detroit as the campaign prepared litigation to try and stop the county in court, Smith wrote.

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Later in mid-December, Trump allegedly asked then-Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to publicize a widely discredited report from Antrim County that suggested voting tabulators there had been compromised.

McDaniel, a Michigan resident, called the report inaccurate. And after discussing it with then-state House Speaker Lee Chatfield, she told Trump the report was “fucking nuts,” according to the court filing.

In the 165-page document unsealed Wednesday, Smith outlined what he called “private crimes” by Trump as he argued against a request for presidential immunity in the case. Trump faces multiple felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by attempting to overturn the election.

Trump, who is running for president a third time, has called the indictment part of a “witch hunt” to deny him a return to the White House.

Earlier this week, Trump’s attorneys urged additional redactions from Smith’s court filing before it was made public, arguing the special counsel was trying to influence the upcoming election by releasing new details of the investigation.

Smith’s office “wants their politically motivated manifesto to be public … in the final weeks of the 2024 Presidential election while early voting has already begun throughout the United States,” his attorneys wrote.

The new filing comes after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, requiring Smith to reframe the indictment around the new restrictions.

Like the original indictment filed last year, Michigan figures heavily in the new document. The state, and Detroit, are mentioned a combined 60 times in the 165-page document.

The filing chronicles how Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani allegedly “attempted to pressure the Michigan legislature to overturn the valid election results” by passing a joint resolution calling the election results into doubt.

Chatfield and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, both Republicans, maintained throughout the post-election turmoil that they had not been provided any evidence of fraud that would change the outcome of the election. They told Trump the same, according to court filings.

Then-candidate Joe Biden won Michigan by a margin of about 154,000 votes, or 2.7%.

The Antrim County Report emerged after attorney Matt DePerno convinced a judge in early December 2020 to let him bring in an outside firm and examine Dominion voting machines after an initial reporting error.

DePerno had sued over a close vote on an unrelated ordinance. He has pleaded not guilty to separate felony charges over his alleged attempts to obtain and access voting machines throughout the state.

The Antrim report was discredited not long after its publication, but not before Trump seized on it as conclusive evidence the election was rigged against him, even as multiple senior advisers and staff attempted to persuade him otherwise.

Trump handed then-Attorney General Bill Barr the Antrim County report on the day he resigned, according to transcripts of Barr’s interviews during a congressional investigation into Jan. 6, 2021.

“‘This is absolute proof the Dominion machines were rigged,’” Barr said Trump told him. “‘The report means that I’m going to have a second term.’”

But Barr told investigators he thought the reporter was “very amateurish” and arrived at “nonsense” conclusions.

Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 loss effectively ended on Jan. 6, 2021, when Vice President Mike Pence refused to block congressional certification of the election despite riots at the U.S. Capitol.

In a Tuesday debate, Trump’s new running mate, JD Vance, declined to say whether Trump lost four years ago or whether he would certify an election if put in the same position as Pence.

Vance defended his position Wednesday during a campaign event in Michigan.

“I’m focused on the election 33 days from now, because I want to throw Kamala Harris out of office and get back to common sense economic policies,” Vance said in Auburn Hills.

“And by the way, to all of you listening out there, I believe that we are going to have the safest and most secure election in 2024 that we’ve had, because the RNC is fighting for election integrity in a way that it frankly wasn’t four years ago.”

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police late last week were called in after a physical fight broke out among attendees at the Michigan Republican Party's new state central committee meeting.

Bridge MI reports that a fight erupted on Friday night at the Doherty Hotel in Clare, Michigan between allies of current Michigan GOP Chairman Kristina Karamo and ally-turned-rival Matthew DePerno.

"A video recording obtained by Bridge Michigan shows a confrontation between Kalamazoo Republican Party Chair Kelly Sackett and Macomb County GOP Secretary Melissa Pehlis," the publication writes. "After they exchanged words, Sackett appeared to knock a cigarette and phone from the hand of Pehlis, who responded by thrusting an open hand at Sackett's head."

In an interview with Bridge MI, Sackett revealed that she filed a police complaint against Pehlis over the incident, which was apparently a dispute about DePerno's moves to purportedly purge people loyal to Karamo from the Kalamazoo Republican Party.

While Sackett did not elaborate further on the incident, DePerno himself went on the record to condemn Pehlis as a ""Karamo sycophant who was there, it appears, to intentionally harass" Sackett.

DePerno also took a shot at Karamo, who defeated him to become the Michigan Republican Party Chair earlier this year.

"There's big internal disputes within the party right now, and Karamo has done nothing to bring the party together," he said. "And how could she after she ran on a platform for the chair to divide the party? Her platform was to burn it down to eliminate the people who don't agree with her."

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In today’s Republican Party it is no longer enough to deny that Donald Trump lost in 2020. The true Republican diehards demand that their leaders deny that Republicans ever lose any election.

That played out at the Michigan GOP convention over the weekend, with Trump’s pick for state party chair being defeated by a candidate who is even more extreme an election denier. It took three rounds of voting—counted by hand because Republicans have also made it an article of faith not to accept voting technology, even at their own convention—but Kristina Karamo prevailed over second-place finisher and Trump endorsee Matt DePerno.

Karamo ran for secretary of state in 2022, losing by 14 points. DePerno ran for attorney general, losing by 8.6 points. But DePerno conceded that he had lost, while Karamo refused to concede. At the state party convention, she made that part of her campaign message, saying, “Conceding to a fraudulent person is agreeing with the fraud, which I will not do.”

When it comes to 2020, DePerno has been an election denier in good standing, having made his name as a Republican and earned Trump’s endorsement on the basis of his quest to prove fraud in that election. He’s even faced a criminal investigation for tampering with voting machines in 2021. That is the kind of stuff that gets you Donald Trump’s endorsement to lead a state Republican Party. But apparently it is not enough for Michigan Republicans. “Matt ran out on us; he didn’t fight for us,” one delegate told The Washington Post.

Election denial isn’t Karamo’s only angle, though. At the convention, she said, “My goal number one as a Christian is to bring people to Christ, and secondarily to save our country.” A few nights earlier, in a speech to a far-right “patriot” group, she went into a little more detail.

“When we start talking about the spiritual reality of the demonic forces, it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this is crazy, we can’t go there,’” Karamo said. “No. It’s like, did you read the Bible? Didn’t Jesus perform exorcisms? … Scriptures are clear. And so if we’re not operating as though the spirit realities of the world exist, we’re going to fail every time.”

The convention that elected Karamo to lead the state party was attended by 2,000 delegates—but not one of the outgoing party co-chairs or any member of the state congressional delegation. But Karamo claimed the party would move forward unified. “We cannot wait to get work done as one Michigan Republican Party,” she said. “And we are going to beat the Democrats.”

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pHOENIX (AP) — Groups connected to prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump’s movement to cast doubt on the 2020 election results have raised $5.7 million for Arizona Republicans’ election audit.

Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the little-known firm hired to lead the audit, ended months of silence about who was paying for it and how much it cost Wednesday night. The money from pro-Trump groups dwarfs the $150,000 contributed by the Arizona Senate, which commissioned the audit and hired Cyber Ninjas.

Among those leading the fundraising groups are Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor; Sydney Powell, his attorney who filed a number of baseless lawsuits challenging election results; Patrick Byrne, a former chief executive of Overstock.com; and correspondents from the pro-Trump One America News Network.

The confirmation that the audit is being overwhelmingly funded by groups promoting false narratives about the election will raise further questions about the validity of the final report. The audit has already been widely discredited by election experts who say Cyber Ninjas and other contractors are biased and using unusual procedures that won’t produce reliable results.

“When the sources of the money, and the activity that’s being paid for, and the people being paid are all putting forth falsehoods ... it’s incredibly troubling and problematic,” said Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser at the Democracy Fund and a former Maricopa County elections official.

Republican Senate President Karen Fann says the audit is only meant to see whether improvements are needed to state election laws. But the audit has long been associated with the “stop the steal” movement, and Trump has predicted it will uncover evidence to support his discredited theories of fraud.

Before he was hired to lead the audit, Logan promoted Trump’s false narrative that the election was stolen from him, and pro-Trump media has aggressively promoted the effort.

By far the largest funder is The America Project, led by Byrne, which Logan said has so far contributed $3.25 million. America’s Future, which lists Flynn as its chairman, contributed just over $976,000. Voices and Votes, led by OANN correspondents Christina Bobb and Chanel Rion, contributed $605,000; and Powell’s Defending the Republic gave $550,000. Election Integrity Funds for the American Republic, which Logan said is led by attorney Matthew DePerno, contributed $280,000. DePerno unsuccessfully sued Antrim County, Michigan, over the election.

Logan said several of the groups “have also provided operational support and advice pivotal in executing the audit.”

Still unclear is where those groups got their money. They are organized as nonprofits and do not have to disclose their donors.

Logan has fought to keep the funders secret, though he acknowledged at the beginning of the audit that his $150,000 contract with the Senate wouldn’t cover the cost of the work the Senate hired him to do. He released the figures on the deadline for him to voluntarily comply with a request for information, including donor information, from the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee. Several public records lawsuits also seek information from the Senate and Cyber Ninjas.

A news release from Cyber Ninjas said the audit received $5,711,514.43 in outside donations, but the itemized list of amounts contributed by each of the five groups adds up to $50,000 less. A spokesman for Cyber Ninjas, Rod Thomson, did not respond to an email seeking clarification on the discrepancy.

Thomson declined to say how much of the $5.7 million has been profit for Cyber Ninjas and other contractors, whether they expect to get more money and whether there are plans for what to do if the contributions far exceed the costs of the audit.

The auditors on Thursday began returning the 2.1 million ballots and election equipment to Maricopa County, three months after they were delivered to the state fairgrounds for a review that was originally expected to take 60 days.

The Senate got access to the materials after top senators issued a subpoena late last year, as Trump and his allies tried to convince members of Congress not to certify Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6. Maricopa County turned them over after a judge ruled the subpoena was valid.

Fann and Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen this week issued new subpoenas demanding more information as well as materials they say the Senate withheld from the original demand. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said the board members are discussing their options with their lawyers and expect to say more within the next week.

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assistant Secretary Robert Destro, now a law professor at Catholic University confirms he met with Colorado podcast Joe Oltmann and Michigan lawyer Matt DePerno, now the GOP of MI AG on Jan. 6.

https://t.co/k9UzXAYpXM

On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol, a top Trump appointee at the U.S. State Department met with two activists who had been key to spreading the false narrative that the presidential election had been stolen. The meeting came as Trump’s allies were pressing theories that election machines had been hacked by foreign powers and were angling for Trump to employ the vast powers of the national security establishment to seize voting machines or even rerun the election.

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Robert A. Destro is an American attorney, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from September 2019 to January 2021.^[1] In October 2020, he also became the United States Special Coordinator on Tibetan Issues.^[2][3] He previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1983 to 1989 and as a professor of law at The Catholic University of America.^[4][5]

Destro confirmed to the Washington Post that, during the 2021 United States Capitol attack, he met in the State Department with "Big Lie" supporters Joe Oltmann, a Colorado podcaster, and Matthew DePerno, lawyer and candidate in the 2022 Michigan Attorney General election. While Destro declined to disclose the substance of the meeting, Oltmann posted on social media that he had met with "the right people" in the State Department and that "they said, 'If this the false claims of irregularities in the [2020 US Presidential election ] is true, this is a coup.'"^[10]

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Michigan AG candidate may face criminal charges before election for tampering with voting machines: report

Bob Brigham

September 21, 2022

Michigan AG candidate may face criminal charges before election for tampering with voting machines: report

The GOP nominee for attorney general in Michigan could face criminal charges stemming from his election denialism before the November election.

Kalamazoo attorney Matthew Perno is being investigated by Muskegon County Prosecutor DJ Hilson, who was appointed special prosecutor by Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Hilson issued a statement on the timing of potential charges, saying, "As prosecutor, I have an ethical obligation to ensure that all necessary evidence and information is obtained and reviewed so that a determination of criminal charges can be made. In order to meet that obligation, I have determined that additional investigative work needs to be done and I am working with investigators on those issues."

"I am acting as expeditiously as possible, but due to this ethical obligation, I cannot say at this time when any decisions would be made."

Nessel requested a special prosecutor as DePerno is her opponent following an investigation by her office and the Michigan State Police.

Also under investigation are GOP state Rep. Daire Rendon and Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, among others.

"According to documents from Nessel's office, several people − including DePerno − are also accused of either illegally tampering with voting machines or being present when others "broke into the tabulators." Additional people accused of misconduct in the request for a special prosecutor include Stefanie Lambert Juntilla, Ann Howard, Ben Cotton, Jeff Lenberg, Douglas Logan and James Penrose," the newspaper reported. "Juntilla, a lawyer, has worked on debunked legal efforts brought by Trump-supporting attorney Sydney Powell and others to suggest widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Cotton, Lenberg, Logan and Penrose worked both with Powell's so-called 'Kraken' team on discredited election efforts across the country and on DePerno's Antrim County lawsuit."

DePerno has denied any wrongdoing.

Read the full report.$

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/michigan-republican-gop-nominee-deperno-emails-invs/index.html

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two additional right-wing activists who have been implicated in a wide-ranging scheme to breach election data appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast from late 2020 to mid-2021 to discuss their efforts to overturn the results of the election. The resurfaced video provides a contemporary account of what the two men were saying in their own words during the period now under scrutiny.

The two right-wing figures are former Michigan state senator and election fraud conspiracy theorist Patrick Colbeck and Matthew DePerno, a conservative Michigan lawyer and Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for state attorney general. Both have been active in efforts in Michigan to overturn the results of the election, often describing their work in real time on Bannon’s podcast. A new investigation from The Washington Post partially reveals each of their roles in accessing sensitive electoral data.

DePerno is a frequent guest on War Room – a supposed authority on purported security flaws in Dominion voting systems and other discredited election denialism. Following former President Donald Trump’s loss, DePerno hired a forensics firm called SullivanStrickler to obtain election data from Dominion Voting Systems as part of a lawsuit he had brought seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to the Post. After a judge granted DePerno limited access to the machines in December 2020, he and Trump lawyer Sidney Powell instructed SullivanStrickler to carry out a forensic examination of Dominion’s voting systems, which was successful in gaining access to the data.

Colbeck appears to have downloaded some of data that SullivanStrickler collected as part of the DePerno investigation. An account tied to Colbeck “downloaded six files from the same folder on Jan. 5, 2021, according to the records, including files labeled ‘election management server’ and ‘ThumbDrives,’” according to the Post. The Post also reported that DePerno couldn’t remember if he’d given access to the files to Colbeck and the other election denialists who accessed the data.

Colbeck and DePerno – who is now facing criminal investigation for conspiracy to tamper with voting machines across three counties in Michigan – are two of several election denial activists who have appeared on War Room and subsequently been implicated in the data breach scheme. Brian Kennedy, a senior fellow at a Trump-aligned think tank, also appeared on War Room in late 2020 to discuss his involvement in the failed recount campaign following Trump’s loss, as previously reported by Media Matters. Kennedy was named in an earlier Post investigation as having been in communication with the forensics firm that obtained the data for DePerno. The latest Post story says former War Room guest and right-wing commentator Joe Oltmann also accessed the data.

Matthew DePerno on War Room

On May 5, 2021, DePerno appeared on Bannon’s show to talk about his ongoing lawsuit in Antrim Countyand what he claimed were Dominion security flaws. (The lawsuit was eventually dismissed.) In that interview, he referenced Dominion’s “election management system,” a phrase very similar to the name of one of the files Colbeck allegedly downloaded.

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We’re the only case in the country that’s been able to look at actual forensic images,” DePerno said. “December 6, 2020, we went into Antrim County and actually collected forensic images of their election management system.” DePerno then claimed that through this work, his team had been able to “just manipulate any database we want.”

Earlier in the interview, he’d claimed that his access to Dominion systems had given his team the capacity, in general, to change the outcome of any election on a hypothetical ballot.

“Looking at this data, looking at the forensic images and conducting our own tests with ballots and the Dominion system, we put out a video this week that shows that we can flip votes in any race, in any election, up ballot, down ballot, from the president's race, all the way down to any school board race,” DePerno said. “We can select certain races to keep clean. We can select certain races to flip votes in from one candidate to another.”

In June, DePerno again referenced Dominion’s election management system on War Room.

“We’ve proved now that there was direct access to the Antrim Countyelection management system,” DePerno said. “We show that on November 5, we can see it in the forensic images, that an anonymous user logged onto the EMS remotely with escalated privileges and made changes to the database when they were trying to retabulate the election.”

Colbeck’s interest in the “election management server” file may have been tied to DePerno’s repeated claims about what access to that system allowed a user to do.

There is no evidence that any votes tabulated by Dominion were changed in the 2020 election. Still, cybersecurity researchers have warned that distributing the kind of data that DePerno and Colbeck had access to could potentially be used in the future to exploit security flaws and engage in precisely the type of activities that Trump supporters are falsely alleging happened in 2020.

Patrick Colbeck on War Room

Colbeck made several appearances on Bannon’s show immediately after Trump’s loss to discuss his efforts to challenge the Michigan election results.

On November 19, 2020, Colbeck described himself as a “bit of a tech geek,” and explained that he wanted to get involved in the recount effort so he could investigate the system’s software.

“I went in there wanting to understand the stuff that people weren't physically seeing or on the ballot,” Colbeck said. “So I wanted to understand the electronic chain of command between vote tallies and and the communications of vote tallies.”

Later the same day, Colbeck again appeared on War Room and falsely claimed that vote counts were not reliable because tabulators had been connected to the internet.

“Then you get to the basics of a vote tally, which is not – there's no chain of custody around that, particularly around paper chain of custody and electronic chain of custody,” Colbeck said. “When you've got the tabulator, it's connected to the internet, there is zero chain of custody around the vote tally.”

“So is it any wonder why we had strange vote flipping happening in the middle of the night?” he added.

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the following week, Colbeck returned to War Room to again claim, incorrectly, that “the tabulator computers and the adjudicator computers and the local data center … were all networked to each other” and connected to “a cable that connected to the internet.”

“And you could see the proof that they were all connected to the internet,” Colbeck continued. “If you go look in the bottom right hand corner of all your Windows 10-based PCs and you see the little window on the bottom, there is a little icon that if you roll the mouse over there, it says, connected to the internet. But all the Detroit elected officials that I contacted that night refused – they said specifically that it was not connected to the internet. And from my background, I know differently.”

In fact, an audit and report from Michigan Republicans in 2021 found that although some of the machines had been connected to a local area network (LAN), there is no evidence that the tabulators were connected to any outside networks or that any purported internet connection had been exploited to alter any votes. The LAN connection, “which would create the same icon on a computer screen indicating a network connection as is shown by an internet accessible network,” may have accounted for Colbeck’s confusion.

Tracy Wimmer of the Michigan Department of State had previously debunked Colbeck’s false claims as well.

“No ballot tabulation machines were connected to the internet at Detroit’s counting board,” Wimmer told The Associated Press in December 2020. “The machines were networked locally to each other and the adjudication machines by ethernet cable, and so some people suggested they were online. They were not.”

Although it’s not publicly known precisely what information the account linked to Colbeck downloaded, the name of one of the other files he allegedly accessed – “ThumbDrives” – offers a possible clue. In Michigan, when voting is over, officials transfer the final tally generated by the tabulators, which Colbeck incorrectly said were connected to the internet, to the clerk’s office via flash drives. The data Colbeck received could be related to those final vote tallies or other information related to transferring the vote totals.

It’s not clear from the Post’s reporting whether Colbeck or any of the other election deniers who downloaded the Michigan data could face legal exposure. In general, breaching an election system and distributing the data is a serious crime. Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, a hero and repeat guest on War Room: Pandemic, is facing felony charges for allegedly tampering with election equipment and for obstruction following Trump’s loss.

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Michigan will be one of the most closely watched states in the 2022 midterms as incumbent Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and State Attorney General Dana Nessel, battle far-right MAGA Republicans who have promoted the Big Lieand the false, thoroughly debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen fromformer President Donald Trump. Attorney Matthew DePerno, Michigan’s GOP nominee for state attorney general, continues to falsely claim that Trump won Michigan, and Nessel, according to the Washington Post, is pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that DePerno tried to gain unauthorized access to voting equipment.

Washington Post reporters Rosalind S. Helderman, Emma Brown and Tom Hamburger, in an article published on August 7, explain, “In a petition filed Friday with a Michigan agency that coordinates prosecutors and posted online Sunday by Politico, a Nessel representative wrote that her office has a conflict of interest because a preliminary investigation by state police has determined that her opponent — lawyer Matthew DePerno — was ‘one of the prime instigators’ of a conspiracy to convince Michigan clerks to allow unauthorized access to voting machines. She asked that an independent prosecutor be named to review the investigation and determine whether to file criminal charges against DePerno and eight others.”

According to the Post reporters, those eight others “include a Michigan state representative and a county sheriff, as well as other key figures in the election denier movement.”

“State police have been investigating, since February, efforts by supporters of former President Donald Trump to convince Michigan clerks to give them access to voting software and tabulating machines, so they could examine them to prove fraud took place in 2020,” Helderman, Brown and Hamburger report. “According to Nessel’s petition, DePerno and two others, including a Michigan state representative, ‘orchestrated a coordinated plan to gain access’ to equipment in four Michigan communities. According to the petition, the tabulators were taken to hotel rooms and Airbnb rentals in Oakland County, where a group of four men ‘broke into’ the tabulators and performed ‘tests’ on them.”

The Post reporters continue, “The petition says that DePerno was present at a hotel room during some of the testing. DePerno has been a leading election denier in Michigan since shortly after the 2020 election, filing a lawsuit challenging the results in Antrim County because of a quickly corrected error by the county clerk that resulted in the heavily Republican county at first reporting a victory for Joe Biden.”

Elections lawyer Mark Brewer, who formerly chaired the Michigan Democratic Party, described Nessel’s special prosecutor request as “unprecedented and historic,” telling the Post, “I don’t recall any previous candidate for attorney general being under investigation.”

“Election experts have been sounding the alarm for months about a series of efforts around the country by Trump allies to examine or copy tightly guarded voting equipment to search for evidence of fraud in the 2020 election,” Helderman, Brown and Hamburger note. “They fear the outsiders might have compromised the sensitive tabulators or could publish details about how voting machines and software work that would make it easier to commit fraud in the future.”

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A debate between the Republicans running for Michigan attorney general confirmed warnings from reproductive rights advocates that Republicans aren’t going to stop with abortion bans—they’re coming for birth control next. In the last question of last Friday’s debate, all three men said they thought the 1965 Supreme Court decision striking down laws banning the sale of contraception had been wrongly decided, because states’ rights.

At least two of the three candidates did not know what Griswold v. Connecticut was about—which itself is kind of an issue in people campaigning to be Michigan’s top lawyer, since Griswold is a pretty damn famous case. (I literally learned about it in high school, and I am not a lawyer.) But all three agreed, once they learned what it was, that it was bad.

The Connecticut law struck down in Griswold allowed the prosecution of married couples for buying contraception. In Griswold, the Supreme Court said that the law violated the “right to marital privacy,” foreshadowing the privacy right that would be invoked in Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Here’s what the Michigan Republicans seeking to be the state’s top law enforcement officer had to say about the marital right to privacy around birth control decisions.

“Remind me,” Tom Leonard, the former speaker of the state House, said. After an explanation, he was ready to condemn the decision.

“Yeah, okay, I just, and I wanted clarification,” Leonard said. “This case, much like Roe v. Wade, I believe was wrongly decided, because it was an issue that trampled states’ rights and it was an issue that should have been left up to the states.”

State Rep. Ryan Berman literally pulled out his phone during that exchange.

”Yeah, you know what, I wasn’t familiar with Griswold v. Connecticut,but I’m an advanced legal researcher so I pulled it up real quick to look what it’s about,”he said. “And it says the court ruled that the Constitution did in fact protect the right of marital privacy against state restrictions on contraception. Again, I would have to look more into it and the reasoning behind it, but I’m all about states’ rights and limiting federal judicial activism.”

Matthew DePerno, endorsed by Donald Trump for enthusiastically signing on to the Big Lie about the 2020 elections, had the same basic answer, minus the admission that he didn’t know what he was talking about.

”Listen, all these cases that deal—Griswold, Roe v. Wade, Dobbs— these are all state right issues.I think that’s what we’re gonna see with the US Supreme Court. They’re gonna come down on the side that these liberty issues—number one, the wide expanse that was given on Roe v. Wade and this litany—are unworkable. The Supreme Court has to deal with that, has to decide, mark my words, that the privacy issue currently is unworkable. It’s going to be a state right issue on all of these things—as it should be!”

DePerno wasn’t done. “We need to start defending state rights as attorney generals, across this country,” he said. “Too many people, even in our own party, too many people have lost the idea of what states’ rights means. They haven’t read the works of our Founding Fathers. They haven’t read The Federalist Papers. They continue to push the idea that we need to give rights away to the federal government. We don’t.We need to take state rights back. We need to stand in our borders. When the feds come and try to take our rights, we need to stand as citizens in Michigan and hold the line and protect states’ rights.”

So, yes. Republicans are 100% coming for the right to obtain birth control once the Trump Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, with that decision likely coming this June. Already some states are advancing personhood legislation, which would declare an embryo or fetus to be a legal person. Such laws criminalize abortion, but they also potentially ban forms of birth control like the pill, IUDs, and emergency contraception.

”All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception,”Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel tweeted Friday evening. “You read that right. Terrifying.”

Lots of people who support abortion rights spent years responding lackadaisically to warnings that Republicans were stacking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and legalize abortion bans. Now we see how true those warnings were, as they come to fruition. It’s time to sit up and listen to the warnings that Republicans won’t stop there.

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matthew DePerno, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Michigan who has made a name for himself by pushing lies about the 2020 election — and by becoming the target of an investigation into whether he illegally tampered with voting machines — is spending the final stretch of his campaign spouting new falsehoods about supposed election crimes.

In a recent meeting with the Detroit Free Press’ editorial board, DePerno claimed that voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had been “broken into” in 2020, the paper said Tuesday. He also said that his opponent in the November 2022 election, Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), had failed to look into the purported crime.

“Why don’t you write a story about Dec. 4, 2020, when I referred to Dana Nessel an actual crime of two tabulators that were actually used in the November 2020 election where the security tapes were removed, the machines were broken into,” DePerno said.

But none of that is true, the Free Press reported.

for one thing, the paper found, DePerno never submitted any kind of criminal complaint to law enforcement. More importantly, the candidate still hasn’t offered evidence, or even a detailed description, of the crime he said took place.

His allegations appear to stem from a 2020 civil lawsuit filed by his client Bill Bailey, which claimed that a vote-tallying issue on Election Day in Antrim County was evidence of possible widespread fraud in Michigan. (In fact, it was a simple, quickly resolved human error.) Unofficial early results showed then-President Donald Trump losing the rural, conservative county, but a prompt recount indicated that he had won, 61% to 37%.

As part of the legal challenge, DePerno claimed that some voting machines in Antrim Country were missing the security tape typically placed over them after elections, suggesting that they could have been compromised. But the group of inspectors DePerno was involved with hadn’t looked at the machines until weeks after the election, the Free Press reported — well after that security tape legally could have been removed.

Still, DePerno claimed that “there is evidence that someone who was not authorized removed the tape ... during the election.” He provided no such evidence, according to the Free Press.

He also told the outlet that he believed Nessel had known about allegations of tampering and done nothing to address them.

“You cannot deny that Dana Nessel was aware of the allegations,” DePerno said. “You can also not deny that Dana Nessel never took any steps to investigate these claims. Not one single witness was contacted to give a statement by [Michigan State Police].”

Both Nessel’s office and the Antrim County clerk reiterated this week that they believe the claims are baseless.

The lawsuit hasn’t gone anywhere. An appeals court panel foundin April that the “plaintiff merely raised a series of questions about the election without making any specific factual allegations as required.”

In a statement to HuffPost, DePerno’s campaign declined to comment further on the allegations or lawsuit. “We are done rehashing the Antrim County Case,”a spokesperson wrote.

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‘They Are Domestic Terrorists’

DePerno’s claim about voting-machine tampering actually echoes pieces of an investigation into his own alleged actions: Nessel’s office has said that DePerno was one of the “prime instigators” of what it described as a potential “conspiracy to unlawfully obtain access to voting machines used in the 2020 General Election.”

At the office’s request, a special prosecutor is currently investigating DePerno and right-wing operatives who the office says tried to access and breach the machines as part of their attempt to push voter fraud myths.

DePerno and others, including far-right Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf,allegedly managed to get their hands on some machines during this effort. Leaf also sent a sheriff’s deputy and a private investigator from town to town, pressing clerks for information.

According to Nessel’s office, the group then took the machines to “hotels and/or AIRBNB’s in Oakland County” so that they could break into them and perform “tests” on the equipment.

It’s a felony in Michigan to “obtain undue possession” of voting equipment.

DePerno has previously called the state investigation a “witch hunt,” and he promises on his campaign website to “prosecute the people who corrupted the 2020 election and allowed fraud to permeate the entire election system.”

DePerno’s efforts have been a wellspring for widespread lies about the 2020 election.

Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a key financial backer in the effort to sow doubt about the 2020 results, sent a team to look into the machines in Antrim County, and it wrote a report claiming that Dominion-brand voting machines in the area were “intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”

This report has been repeatedly debunked, but it was still cited in a draft executive order in 2020 asserting that Trump, who was still president at the time, had the authority to seize voting machines nationwide.

“It’s not a question. ... The whole thing’s rigged,” Byrne, now one of several people facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion, said in a video this month.

Byrne then called out Nessel, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) and Jonathan Brater, the director of Michigan’s Bureau of Elections: “They are domestic terrorists. I’m saying it. Sue me.”

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

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BY TIM DICKINSON, NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ, RYAN BORT

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

IT WAS MORE than a little troubling when Marjorie Taylor Greene, someone who had demonstrated an affinity for QAnon while pushing several other conspiracy theories, was elected to Congress in 2020. The House of Representatives voted to strip her of her committee assignments shortly after her term began, and even the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called her views “deeply disturbing.”

A lot can change in two years.

The Republican Party is now totally in thrall of extremists and conspiracy theorists, including former President Donald Trump, who made professing a belief that the 2020 election was stolen is a requirement for anyone looking to have good standing in the MAGA-fied GOP. The party-wide embrace of un-reality has birthed a slate of midterm candidates rife with QAnon adherents, election deniers, and other far-right conservatives hell-bent on destroying democracy — and with it the rights of millions of Americans.

The GOP brass is along for the ride. McCarthy even promised on Monday that Greene will be sitting on committees in the next Congress. Her brand of extremism is no longer “deeply disturbing” — it’s the Republican party line. Below is a list of some of the most dangerous Republican candidates toeing it as they run for both for positions in Congress and in state-wide positions of power.

Kari Lake

What she’s running for: Arizona governor

Why she’s so problematic: Lake is a 53-year-old former TV journalist who brings an attractive patina to far-right MAGA politics. Most notably, she’s not very interested in facts. During the pandemic she promoted herself with a logo of a burning mask and touted the virtues of quack treatments like hydroxychloroquine. She responded to an election investigation that found no fraud in Maricopa County with a demand to have the state’s election “decertified.” She has called for her opponent, the current secretary of state, to be jailed based on similar nonsense.

On the border, Lake has vowed to lead a military response to undocumented immigration, even without approval from the federal government. “As soon as my hand comes off the Bible, we’re going to send the Arizona National Guard troops,” Lake told CPAC attendees this year. She alleged a “sovereignty” of the state of Arizona, and declared: “We will take the fight to the federal government.”

Trump absolutely loves her, to the point that rumors have swirled that he could tap her as his running mate should he run in 2024.

Likelihood she’ll win: Polls show Lake with a small but consistent lead over Democrat Katie Hobbs.

What to drink if she does: A magnum of mescal.

Tim Michels

What he’s running for: Wisconsin governor

Why he’s so problematic: Wisconsin has been the beta test for national Republican strategies against democracy. The GOP has managed to turn a 50-50 swing state, through gerrymandering, into a fortress of MAGA power. The current governor, Democrat Tony Evers, has been holding back a flood, vetoing GOP-passed bills at a record clip.

Michels, a construction executive with longtime political ambitions, was caught on tape recently promising supporters: “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor. (“They’re looking to impose one-party rule with zero accountability to voters,” Hillary Clinton tweeted in response, “and they’re not being subtle about it.”)

Michaels also has a long record of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, insisting in a past senatorial debate that LGBTQ families shouldn’t “bring it out of your house, and onto the public street,” because “I believe in family values.” More recently, he’s railed against the “liberal” media, responding to an expose of his record with a call to “get out on the streets with pitchforks and torches.”

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Likelihood he wins: Late polling shows a tossup.

What to drink if he does: There’s not enough Pabst in the world.

Mark Finchem

What office: Arizona secretary of state

Why he’s so problematic: A member of the Oath Keepers who marched in D.C. on Jan. 6 and remains a steadfast proponent of the Big Lie, Finchem is striving to be the top election official in Arizona. He is an ultra-MAGA election denier who could tip the scales against democracy in favor of authoritarianism — especially in a state that’s turned into ground zero for false claims of election fraud.

Finchem has said he was “honored” to have the endorsement of Andrew Torba, the antisemitic, Christian nationalist founder of Gab, the hate-filled social media network. He has compared progressive criticism of conservatives, and “cancel culture,” to the Holocaust. Finchem has also drawn criticism for appearing at a fundraiser with conspiracy theorists including 9/11 “truthers,” and for himself spouting QAnon beliefs about child-trafficking Democrats.

Likelihood he wins: The latest polls show Finchem a half-dozen points off the lead.

What to drink if he does: Make yourself the worm in a vat of tequila.

Jim Marchant

What office: Nevada secretary of state

Why he’s so problematic: Marchant is a former congressional candidate who claimed, without evidence, to have been cheated out of a House seat in 2020. He’s the president of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, a collection of Big Lie candidates that also includes Finchem. Linked to QAnon by the Las Vegas Sun, Marchant says he would not have certified Biden’s win in 2020. In the name of election “integrity,” he’s proposed reviving a practice — common in the Jim Crow South — to “wipe out the voter rolls completely and then have everybody re-register.”

Likelihood he wins: Marchant is trailing by three points in a pair of recent polls.

What do drink if he does: Fuck liquor. Fire up the gravity bong with some legal Las Vegas kind bud, and launch yourself into oblivion along with our democracy.

Doug Mastriano

What he’s running for: Pennsylvania governor

Why he’s so problematic: Mastriano is a Christian-nationalist state legislator who was reportedly Donald Trump’s “point person” in the effort to assemble Pennsylvania’s fake slate of Electoral College votes for 2020. Prior to the events of Jan. 6, Mastriano appeared with a far-right prayer group, imploring God to help Republicans “seize the power.” Mastriano then chartered buses to take supporters to D.C., where he was billed as a speaker and himself reportedly crossed police lines at the Capitol.

Mastriano, a steadfast Big Lie proponent, is an open threat to electoral democracy. He pitches himself to MAGA voters as being able to hand-select Pennsylvania’s next secretary of state — i.e. its top election authority. He’d also have sole authority to certify (or refuse to certify) Pennsylvania’s next Electoral College slate. It’s a scary proposition considering Mastriano is tied to a medley of far-right charismatic Christian apostles and prophets who see him as a God-sent militant to lead a Christian takeover of the state, and spur on one for the entire nation.

Likelihood he wins: Polls consistently show Mastriano trailing Democrat Josh Shapiro. Upsetting him would take the miracle his backers are praying for.

What to drink if he does: Drown yourself in a whole ass keg of Yeungling.

Eric Schmitt

What he’s running for: U.S. Senate in Missouri

Why he’s so problematic: Did Trump want Eric Schmitt to win the GOP primary for Senate in Missouri? Sort of! The most notable moment of the state attorney general’s campaign to head to Washington may have been the quasi-nod the former president gave both him and Eric Greitens, whom Schmitt defeated a day later. He’ll now likely be a U.S. senator, which is troubling for several reasons. For one, he’s a right-wing culture warrior who has promised “to stop the radical cancel culture agenda being advanced by the left.” He also used his post as attorney general to sue Missouri schools implementing pandemic mitigation efforts, attempted to have the Affordable Care Act dismissed, and threatened to sue the city of Kansas City if it gives financial help to city employees seeking out-of-state abortions.

It shouldn’t be surprising that Schmitt is also an election denier, and in addition to being part of the slew of attorneys general who filed lawsuits attempting to overturn President Biden’s win in various states, served as the vice chair of a dark money group whose policy outfit organized thousands of robocalls urging people to join the “Stop the Steal” Jan. 6 protest.

Likelihood he wins: Almost certain. Schmitt currently holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine in the red state.

What to drink if he does: Just a whole lot of Budweiser.

Kristina Kamaro

What she’s running for: Michigan secretary of state

Why she’s so problematic: It’s hard to be more extreme than Kristina Kamaro, the Trump-endorsed Republican running for secretary of state in Michigan. She’s been connected to QAnon, and has made a series of outlandish claims that wouldn’t be out of place in darkest corners of conspiracy forums, including that performers like Cardi B and Billie Eilish are putting children “under a satanic delusion.” She’s also ascribed satanism to abortion, calling the practice “child sacrifice,” and spoken about a belief in “demonic possession.”

Kamaro is an devout election denier, and has preempted Tuesday’s midterm by claiming without evidence that the result will be plagued by “illegal votes.” She even filed a lawsuit trying to prevent absentee votes from being counted. The suit was dismissed on Monday, with Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny writing that Kamaro didn’t produce a “shred of evidence.”

If Kamaro wins on Tuesday, she would be set to take control of the Michigan’s election systems, which could mean curtains for democracy in the crucial swing state.

Likelihood she’ll win: Low. She’s trailing incumbent Jocelyn Benson by a wide margin.

What to drink if she does: Holy water.

Joe Kent

Why he’s so problematic: A regular Tucker Carlson guest, Kent has promised followers that as a congressman he would launch a full-fledged investigation into unfounded allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, and recently appeared at a rally supporting Jan. 6 defendants. Kent’s ties with extremist groups have followed his campaign. He’s been forced to address associations with white nationalist figures like Nick Fuentes and Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibb, and was caught paying “consulting” fees to a someone who had been a member of the Proud Boys. There’s also evidence that Kent may have negotiated a deal with the far-right website Gab to boost his followers on the platform. Fortunately for Kent, he’s running in a district that has been held by Republicans for the last five elections.

Likelihood he wins: It’s all but guaranteed.

What to drink if he does: The driest, hoppiest IPA you’ve ever had, but at room temperature.

Don Bolduc

What he’s running for: U.S. Senate in New Hampshire

Why he’s so problematic: Bolduc, a retired Army general, ran his campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination for Senate in New Hampshire as a hard-and-fast election denier. “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying Trump won the election, and damnit I stand by my word,” he said during an Aug. 14 GOP debate. He narrowly won the primary, after which he immediately changed course, saying “definitely” that the 2020 election was not stolen.

In other words, Bolduc is full of shit. He also seems primed to allege the 2022 election was rigged should he lose to Democrat Maggie Hassan. He’s currently trailing Hassan, which is why Democrats were hoping he’d win his primary, but if he wins it will likely mean Republicans will have taken control of the chamber, with Bolduc entrenching himself as another senator fighting to unravel democracy on behalf of the former president.

Likelihood he wins: Bolduc is the underdog, but polling averages show him within striking distance of Hassan.

What to drink if he does: A no-nonsense shot of whiskey.

Matt DePerno

What he’s running for: Michigan attorney general

Why he’s so problematic: Election conspiracy theorist Matt DePerno is trying to turn his denial of Trump’s 2020 election loss into a position as Michigan’s attorney general. He filed a lawsuit based on the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems tampered with voting machines in order to produce favorable results for Biden, but it was he who was allegedly tampering with voting equipment in the aftermath of the election.

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DePerno is one of a series of candidates running for office in Michigan on the coattails of Trump’s “Big Lie.” Republicans in the state have spent the last two years trying to reshape election oversight, and DePerno could have the power to make it happen should he be elected. He’s already promised to prosecute a list of Democratic politicians including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and his election opponent, current Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Touting an endorsement from Trump and QAnon figure Gen. Michael Flynn, DePerno’s proposed platform as attorney general is also informed by culture war grievances. He’s promised to outlaw critical race theory and end any Covid mandates in the state.

Likelihood he wins: Nessel holds a narrow lead, but the race could go either way.

What to drink if he does: a Great Lake-sized glass of anything

J.R. Majewski

What he’s running for: U.S. House in Ohio

Why he’s so problematic: Majewski is a devoted Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist whose affinity for extremism has defined his campaign since its inception. Reports emerged in May of this year that he attended the Jan. 6 “Stop The Steal” rally challenging President Trump’s 2020 election loss. He’s attempted to distance himself from his public support for QAnon, but video emerged of him declaring that he believed “in everything that’s been put out from Q.” He also said on video that he “wanted nothing more than to go in [the Capitol]” on Jan. 6, but refrained because his companions “had physical limitations.” Majewski’s campaign was dealt a heavy blow in September, when he lost the support of the House GOP after reports emerged that he misled voters about being an Afghanistan veteran.

Likelihood he wins: Democrat Marcy Kaptur is favored in polls, but it’s close.

What to drink if he does: Loco Mocha Java Monster Energy with a shot of diesel fuel.

John Gibbs

Why he’s so problematic: John Gibbs once said women’s suffrage hurt the country. Now he needs them to help him win a seat in the House.

The far-right candidate turned a career as a political commentator into an appointment as an adviser to Ben Carson in the Trump administration, and his loyalty to the former president has manifested itself in a campaign riddled with election denial and conspiracy. Gibbs claimed the results of the 2020 election were “mathematically impossible” and attacked incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Meijer for voting to impeach Trump in the aftermath of Jan. 6.

But false claims about the 2020 election are not the only conspiracies Gibbs has promoted. In 2016, he tweeted multiple posts claiming that a Hillary Clinton campaign chairman had participated in satanic rituals. Gibbs repeatedly posted the hashtag “SpiritCooking” on Twitter, a reference to false claims on far-right forums that Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta used bodily fluids in his supposed dabbling with the occult.

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