Michigan Attorney General Puts GOP Traitors Under Investigation

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Michigan state Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) has begun an investigation of Michigan residents who have lied about last year’s presidential election and garnered personal benefits in the process. As one potential investigative target, Michigan attorney Matthew DePerno has raised over $384,000 for what he calls an Election Fraud Defense Fund, and Republican state Senator Ed McBroom, who chairs the oversight committee in the Michigan state Senate, observed just recently that if “you are profiting by making false claims, that’s pretty much the definition of fraud.”

McBroom’s committee recently concluded an investigation into claims of election fraud, and alongside their findings — which confirmed, yet again, the integrity of last year’s presidential election, the panel recommended an investigation by Nessel’s team into individuals who have lied about last year’s presidential election while profiting off their claims. Nessel’s press secretary, Lynsey Mukomel, now says that after “reviewing the report in full, the department has accepted Sen. McBroom and the committee’s request to investigate.” Additionally, the Michigan State Police will be helping with the inquiry.

Although DePerno is continuing to raise money, avenues for substantive challenges to the integrity of last year’s presidential election have long since closed — although not before they were utilized, to no avail, by supporters of the idea that the election was somehow rigged. Court cases related to the election unfolded across the country, with no meaningful success at any point for anyone pushing election fraud conspiracy theories. No court anywhere in the country ever accepted the idea that Biden’s win was the result of fraud.

In Michigan, besides DePerno, The Detroit News names former Michigan state Sen. Patrick Colbeck, a Republican, as one of “the most vocal critics of the election” — suggesting that he could be a subject of Nessel’s investigation. Colbeck has conducted fundraising activity while “knowingly sowing discord in our democracy,” as lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems put it in April of this year — and, as in DePerno’s case, that behavior could constitute fraud. Meanwhile, Nessel’s investigation is hardly the only substantive legal pushback against those who’ve lied about the election. Dominion, a voting technology company that was the subject of pro-Trump election conspiracy theories, has filed $1.3 billion defamation lawsuits against promoters of those theories, like longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, who is himself also under criminal investigation over his foreign dealings.