Tag Archives: Michigan

MI Officials Raise Red Flags Over Trump Rally Venue: This Is Non-Drivable Farmland, Have Wreckers Ready

The Macomb Daily reports: At a special meeting of the Washington Township Board of Trustees, officials approved a temporary agreement for vehicles to park on township owned land for a political rally to be held at the Michigan Stars Sports Center. “This is farmland, this is not residential drivable land and things could get ugly quickly,” said Treasurer Mike Nicley. …

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REPORT: Trump’s Michigan AG Pick Was Fired For Fraud

Bridge Michigan reports: A Republican running to be Michigan’s top law enforcement official was fired from a law firm in 2005 after colleagues alleged he “padded” client billings for personal and professional benefit, according to court records reviewed by Bridge Michigan. Matt DePerno, an attorney general candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, sued the firm over his firing and …

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MI Gov Kidnap Plotter: We Wanted To Help Trump

The Associated Press reports: A man who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told jurors Wednesday that he and his allies wanted to attack before the 2020 election to prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency. Ty Garbin didn’t say why they thought an abduction that fall would stop Biden from defeating then-President Donald Trump. …

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Trump To Hold Michigan Rally For QAnon Candidates

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is set to hold a rally in Michigan next month, traveling to a state that is at the center of his unfounded claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. Trump’s leadership PAC announced Friday that he’ll hold the rally at Washington Township on April 2. He’ll give remarks in support of Matthew DePerno …

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Man In Michigan Gov Kidnap Plot Wanted To Tie Her On A Table And Then Take Photos “Like It Was A Drug Bust”

The Associated Press reports: A key figure in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to restrain the “tyrant” on a table then pose for a photo “like we just made the biggest drug bust,” according to a secret recording played for jurors Thursday. Agent Mark Schweers told the jury …

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Michigan GOP Leaders Condemn Their Own Nominee

The Detroit Free Press reports: Michigan state and local Republican leaders are condemning comments made by a GOP state House candidate who recently suggested rape victims “lie back and enjoy it,” after he spent months parroting pandemic conspiracy theories and sharing anti-Semitic rhetoric. However, Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser and others affiliated with the party are not calling on …

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Michigan Mass Shooter Denied Transfer To Juvenile Jail

Click On Detroit reports: Suspected Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley’s request to be transferred to the Oakland County Children’s Village has been denied, and he will remain in jail. The decision comes one week after the 15-year-old went in front of a judge to argue that he should return to the Children’s Village. His defense tried to convince a …

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MI School Mass Shooter Wants To Read His “Fan Mail”

NBC News reports: The 15-year-old accused in the deadly mass shooting at his suburban Detroit high school in November should be kept in adult jail as he awaits trial, prosecutors said Tuesday. Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Kelly Collins said during a hearing about the teenager’s confinement that he’s demonstrated he can be calculating, has a desire to be remembered for …

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All Michigan GOP Candidates For Attorney General Support Overturning SCOTUS Ruling On Contraception

The Michigan Advance reports: It may have been the last question of last week’s debate for the three men seeking the GOP nomination for Michigan attorney general, but the inquiry seeking their stances on a 1965 Supreme Court ruling has garnered the most attention. The question concerned the high court’s decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, a landmark decision that struck …

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WaPo: Giuliani Tried To Seize Michigan Voting Machines

The Washington Post reports: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team.  Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter said in an interview that Giuliani and several colleagues made the request during a …

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MI Bill Would Outlaw Social Media Bans Of Politicians

The Detroit Free Press reports: A handful of Michigan Republican lawmakers support creating new regulations that would ban large, private social media platforms from removing the accounts of political candidates that violate their terms of service. It’s unclear that the proposal is enforceable and it may be unconstitutional: a federal judge in Florida blocked the implementation of a similar bill …

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The Kraken Pleads For Law License: I’m Not A Lunatic

Law & Crime reports: Indignant about what they describe as their portrayals as “overwrought, dangerous lunatics,” attorney Sidney Powell and her fellow “Kraken” lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reverse an “intemperate” sanctions order aiming at their law licenses. Roughly half a year ago, a federal judge in Michigan referred Powell and eight of her co-counsel for …

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Cultist To Plead Guilty In Plot To Kidnap Michigan Gov

The Detroit News reports: A second member of an alleged plot to kidnap and hurt Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty, giving federal prosecutors two key insiders to fight defense claims of entrapment during next month’s trial, according to a federal court filing Monday. Waterford Township resident Kaleb Franks, 27, will plead guilty to kidnapping conspiracy, which is …

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GOP Michigan Gov Candidate: Rape Victims Shouldn’t Have Abortions Because God Sent Them Those Rapists

NBC News reports: A Michigan Republican candidate for governor recently said that rape victims who become pregnant shouldn’t get abortions, according to a video of the comment that went viral Monday. Garrett Soldano made the remark on the right-wing podcast “Face the Facts with April Moss,” and a liberal news site, Heartland Signal, tweeted a video of the conversation Monday. …

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Cultist John James To Run For Open MI US House Seat

The Associated Press reports: Michigan businessman, military veteran and two-time Republican Senate candidate John James announced Monday he will run for an open House seat in the Detroit area. The 10th District, newly created through redistricting, includes a chunk of Macomb County and a small portion of Oakland County and is considered competitive. Then-President Donald Trump narrowly won the area …

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Accused Michigan School Shooter To Plead Insanity

The Detroit Free Press reports: Teenager Ethan Crumbley plans to pursue an insanity defense for his alleged role in the Oxford High School mass shooting that killed four Oxford students, injured seven others and devastated an entire community, according to a Thursday court filing. “Please take notice that … Ethan Crumbley intends to assert the defense of insanity at the …

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Michigan GOP Leader Claims Schools Are Providing Litter Boxes For Students “Who Identify As Furries”

Michigan Live reports: With a particularly noisome rumor making its rounds online, Midland Public Schools is allaying parents’ fears — no, there are not cat litter boxes set up for their students to relieve themselves in. On Thursday, Jan. 20, Superintendent Michael E. Sharrow sent an email to students’ parents dispelling a rumor of litter boxes being placed in the …

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MI GOP Leader Said Trump Camp Wanted Fake Electors

The Detroit News reports: Michigan Republican Party Co-Chairwoman Meshawn Maddock said former President Donald Trump’s campaign had encouraged the effort to challenge the 2020 results by a group of 16 Republican electors, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN. The national outlet reported that Maddock, who was one of the 16 GOP electors who submitted a false document saying …

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Michigan AG Refers Fake GOP “Electors” To The Feds

The Detroit Press reports: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday she referred to federal prosecutors a probe into Republicans who signed and submitted a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won Michigan’s electoral votes. The revelation demonstrated the potential seriousness and ongoing nature of the investigation and could have repercussions throughout state politics, as the 16 Republicans in question, include …

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Michigan AG Investigates Signers Of Forged 2020 Doc

Michigan Live reports: Falsified documents claiming Michigan’s electors voted for former President Donald Trump were given by state election officials to a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. Sixteen Republicans, including the current co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, signed certificates asserting they were Michigan’s presidential electors and sent the illegitimate documents to the National Archive. A spokesperson …

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