Detroit News: Trump recorded pressuring Michigan canvasser not to certify 2020 vote

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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According to the Detroit News and the recordings they reviewed, then-President Trump personally pressured two Republican Michigan canvassers to not certify the 2020 election. The Detroit News says the recordings reveal that Trump told the two GOP Wayne County canvassers they'd look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results. The Trump campaign released a statement saying "all of President Trump’s actions were taken in furtherance of his duty as president of the United States to faithfully take care of the laws and ensure election integrity.” Conservative attorney George Conway joins AC360 to discuss the Detroit News' reporting and what this could mean for Jack Smith's election interference case against Trump. Plus, Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy in federal court after a jury ordered him to pay two Georgia election officials nearly $150 million for the harm caused by his defamatory statements about them following the 2020 election. CNN Senior Crime and Justice Reporter Katelyn Polantz tells AC360 how this filing could affect the damages he owes Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.4	Good evening Anderson is off tonight and we begin with breaking news a new window into just how far
1:06.4	the former president went to overturn the election that he lost. We've already heard the phone call of him pressuring Georgia officials to find
1:13.9	him votes that he was not entitled to. Not to mention his phone call to Arizona
1:18.1	Governor Doug Ducey to overturn the election results in Arizona. And now the Detroit news is reporting on
1:24.1	recordings that they've reviewed in which he is pressuring Detroit area
1:27.4	election officials to do the same. CNN's Marshall Cohen joins us now with
1:32.2	more.
1:33.0	Marshall, there's clearly a pattern emerging here.
1:37.0	One state after another, Trump trying to dip into the local state of affairs
1:42.0	and influence the results interfere with the results.
1:45.0	So I want to be clear, we have not heard this tape for ourselves, but the details were reported
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