Attorney for Alleged MI Fake Elector Wants Co-Defendants to ‘Shut Up’
During a September fundraiser for his client, an attorney for a defendant in Michigan’s alleged fake elector scheme suggested the case’s co-defendants were imperiling their defense by claiming to have acted on Donald Trump’s orders.
In July, Michigan prosecutors charged 16 Republican activists in the state with eight counts related to forgery and conspiracy. The defendants (one of whom had his charges dismissed in exchange for a cooperation deal in October) are accused of signing documents that falsely represented them as legitimate electors who were handing Michigan’s electoral votes to Trump in 2020, despite Trump losing the state by some 154,000 votes.
Some of those defendants have claimed the Trump campaign was involved in the scheme. That’s a bad idea, suggested Kevin Kijewski, an attorney for one of the alleged plotters, Clifford Frost.