AG Nessel: ‘I’m Not Dropping Charges’ Against Republicans Involve in the 2020 Fake Electors Case

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
SHARPTON: “Now, you are pushing ahead with criminal cases against Republicans accused of falsely presenting themselves as presidential electors in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. These allegations say it was part of a scheme to try to switch Michigan’s 16 electoral votes to Donald Trump. Even though Joe Biden had won the state. However, after this month’s election, six of the people facing charges will now actually be Michigan’s GOP electors. They are expected to convene at the state capital next month to officially cast Michigan’s electoral votes for Trump and Vance. What are your thoughts on where this and where does this stand within the criminal charges you are filing?”

NESSEL: “Here’s how I look at it. If you’d go into a casino and you try your hand at blackjack, and you lose, so you tried to rob the casino, I’m going to charge you with that. It does not matter that maybe four years later you somehow get back into that same casino, and this time you win and you just peacefully go home with your winnings. It does not absolve you of the crime that you tried to commit four years ago. And I’m not dropping the charges. I brought these pieces because I believe these people were guilty of the crimes for which they are alleged to have committed. And just because their candidate happened to win this time does not make them any less guilty of the crime they committed four years ago. But even more than that, you know, the damage that they did to people’s beliefs and our system of elections, we used the exact same procedures, policies, laws, and election equipment as we did last time, and I did not hear them complaining about there being fraud in the system this time when their candidate won. You can’t only love democracy and only support free and fair elections when your candidate is the winning candidate.”