Documents released in the DC case revealed that *****Trump used burner phones***** to call state officials about "fixing" the 2020 election results.
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http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/28/mike-shirkey-jan-6-deposition-trump-2020-election/69760155007/
Shirkey Jan. 6 committee deposition reveals details of Trump calls, White House visit.
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"By now, Michiganders know Republican state legislative leaders rebuffed former President Donald Trump's overtures to interfere in the 2020 election. We know Trump invited them to the White House, tweeted about them and eventually threw them under the bus with his followers. ...
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"'Spam risk Egypt': When the call came, Chatfield reportedly explained, the phone would indicate it was "spam risk Egypt." That means it's the president, Shirkey remembers Chatfield explaining. The speaker said Trump wanted the legislative leaders to join him at the White House. They didn't know exactly why, Shirkey said.
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" "Spam risk Egypt" popped up on Shirkey's phone a little after 6 p.m. on Nov. 18, 2020. It was a Wednesday, about two weeks after the election, in which Biden received about 154,000 more votes in Michigan than Trump. ...
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[Very long, detailed article] [Typical Trump pressure campaign about fraud, etc.]
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" "I was tired of hearing all of these loosely calculated claims and allegations but *****no substance to back them up,"***** Shirkey elaborated. "Something as serious as this, *****it was my strong personal feeling that we were destroying the country***** by talking like this *****without having something to follow it up with***** [i.e., evidence] and creating unnecessary doubt across the country." ...
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" "It was a pretty high pressure process, having these gentlemen come to our offices or invite us into one of their homes and pressing pretty hard for — you heard the phrase 'do the right thing,' " Shirkey told investigators. ...
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"The third call from Trump came in the early evening on Nov. 25, 2020, as Shirkey sat at the dining room table. He told his wife Trump was on the phone again, and she came over to sit with him. At some point, Shirkey mentioned to Trump that his wife was also with him, and the president asked to speak with her. ...
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"Trump called Shirkey one last time. It was on Dec. 14, the same day Electoral College delegates met at the Michigan State Capitol to certify Biden's victory in the state over Trump. ...
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"Within an hour of sending these tweets, Trump's assistant emailed Shirkey a copy of the so-called forensic investigation into alleged voter fraud in Antrim County. A human error temporarily showed Biden won the heavily conservative northern Michigan county, but a subsequent lawsuit served as a vessel to peddle a wide array of misinformation about election results nationwide. "I absolutely recall not looking at (the report)," Shirkey told investigators, about the document sent to him by the president. ...
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[More Trump pressure; more Sharkey tweets about the election being fair and accurate]
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"Shortly thereafter, *****Trump shared Shirkey's personal cellphone number in a public social media post.***** Shirkey said it was Jan. 3. He was on vacation in Florida at the time and didn't directly see the president's message. But a staff member told him what happened, and soon the messages started streaming in. Eventually, he says he received more than 4,000 text messages.
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"By Jan. 6, Shirkey says he and his wife were back home. In the days immediately after the attack, Shirkey was recorded multiple times suggesting some aspects of the assault on the Capitol were a "hoax" and "staged." He didn't mention that to the congressional investigators. Instead, *****Shirkey said as he and his wife watched the riot at the U.S. Capitol unfold, they held hands and cried.***** "