# Michigan AG announces charges against fake electors **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 19, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michigan-ag-announces-charges-against-fake-electors/987256 "2023-07-19T14:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 99
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michigan-ag-announces-charges-against-fake-electors/987256/99 "2023-12-22T13:53:40Z")
> **[Trump Pressures MI Election Officials in New Audio: Report](https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tapes-capture-him-pressuring-011423779.html)** > > The then-president can reportedly be heard telling two canvassers not to certify the results of the presidential election in Wayne County. > [@](#): > > Donald Trump personally leaned on two election officials in Michigan in an attempt to get them not to certify the local results of the 2020 presidential election, according to audio of the conversation obtained by The Detroit News. The newspaper reported Thursday that on a Nov. 17, 2020 phone call, the then-president told the pair of officials, both Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, that they would look “terrible” if they certified the results. “We’ve got to fight for our country,” Trump reportedly said. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.” He also reportedly promised the officials, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, that his team would “take care” of them. Huh. That sounds pretty incriminating to me 😉 Jack? Fani? You got this?? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michigan-ag-announces-charges-against-fake-electors/987256)._