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🗓️ 19 July 2023
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0:00.0 | In Michigan's 16 fake electors tried to turn the 2020 elections in Donald Trump's favor. |
0:07.2 | Now they face criminal charges. |
0:09.2 | They weren't the do-reelected and qualified electors and each of the defendants knew it. |
0:13.9 | I mean Martinez with Laila Faddle and this is up first from NPR News. |
0:20.6 | The former president's legal woes keep piling up. First Trump was indicted in March, |
0:24.8 | then again in June and now maybe a third indictment. This one in connection with the attack |
0:29.0 | on the Capitol. Trump says he got a letter that called him a target of the special counsel's |
0:33.5 | January 6th investigation. And at the southern border, fewer people are getting across illegally. |
0:38.2 | Biden's administration credits restrictive asylum policies, but both immigrant advocates and |
0:42.8 | immigration hawks say those policies are illegal. That's the focus of a court hearing today. |
0:47.3 | Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day. |
0:50.4 | Now we know Donald Trump may face federal charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election, |
1:03.0 | but there are now related charges in Michigan. Yesterday, the Democratic State Attorney General |
1:08.3 | announced charges against 16 fake electors. These were people who submitted paperwork to the federal |
1:13.8 | government falsely saying that they were Michigan's true electors and that Donald Trump won the state |
1:19.6 | even though he clearly lost Michigan in 2020. To talk about all this, we have Colin Jackson of |
1:24.6 | the Michigan Public Radio Network. Good morning, Colin. Good morning. So what do we know about these |
1:29.8 | charges? Well, there are 16 defendants total. They each face eight felony charges that mostly have |
1:37.2 | to do with forgery. And as you mentioned, they stem from this moment in December of 2020 when |
1:42.0 | Attorney General Dana Nestle said the 16 defendants gathered in the basement of what was then the |
1:46.8 | Republican Party headquarters. They allegedly signed a memo falsely stating that they were Michigan's |
1:52.7 | official electoral college members when they were not and tried to award Michigan's electoral |
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