Reuters reports:
Since late 2020, Michigan Sheriff Day Leaf has been investigating one of Trump’s most fantastical false assertions – that vote-counting machines somehow flipped votes from Trump to Democrat Joe Biden.
Leaf is in the vanguard of the so-called “constitutional sheriffs” movement, which asserts that sheriffs, typically elected in counties, possess supreme law-enforcement power in their jurisdictions – exceeding that of state police, federal agencies and any other official, including the U.S. president.
The movement appears to be growing; the association says more than 300 of the nation’s 3,000 elected sheriffs have gone through its training programs since 2020.
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Leaf has appeared on JMG multiple times for his 2020 election lawsuits and for appearing on stage with militia members later accused in the plot to kidnap and murder Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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