'Additional crime': Conservative George Conway says Trump may face new charges in Michigan
Former President Donald Trump might expect a fifth round of criminal charges in the near future, suggested conservative attorney George Conway on CNN Thursday — this time in Michigan.
This comes amid a bombshell new report that Trump "personally pressured" at least two Republican lawmakers in Michigan to block certification of the election results in that state, around the same time as he placed the infamous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia demanding he "find" 11,000 extra votes.
"This gets at the heart of the case [special counsel] Jack Smith is building that he actively conspired to overturn the 2020 election," said anchor Pamela Brown. "How big of a deal is this? Help us put this into context."
"Well, it's thoroughly consistent with the criminal conspiracies that have been alleged by the Department of Justice, by Jack Smith in the Washington, D.C. federal case and by Fani Willis in the Georgia Fulton County prosecution," said Conway. "And it's very much reminiscent of the phone call that you mentioned that had — where President Trump attempted to coerce and bully Secretary of State in Georgia Raffensperger to stop his — to interfere with his duties in certifying an election. And the same thing here."
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"I mean, there is no factual basis given for the claim there was fraud, and there was intimidation involved," Conway continued. "And according to the Detroit News article, it's suggested by a former elections official there that in essence what was happening here, he suggests, is that they were being induced by the — by the promise of legal protection, by the promise of getting attorneys for them to violate their official duties, which potentially could be an additional crime under Michigan law."
"I think an interesting question would be whether the Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, has this tape or aware of this tape," added Conway. "Certainly the details of the call were not known publicly. Dana Nessel, the attorney general of Michigan, has charged the fake electors there, as we know. The question there is, I think it's not necessary for Jack Smith to add this to his case, but it's certainly consistent with his case. And the real question is whether or not authorities in Michigan will seek to prosecute Ms. McDaniel or Mr. Trump."
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