President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani urged Michigan Republican activists on Wednesday to pressure, even threaten, the GOP-controlled Legislature to “step up” and award the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump despite Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory.
Giuliani relied on fraud claims that remain unproven or have been repeatedly rejected by experts. “You are the final arbiter of how honest or not your election is in your state,” Giuliani told lawmakers. “And it’s your responsibility to stand up to that. “All I can tell you is (if) we let them get away with this, I don’t know what happens after this.” Giuliani’s remarks were briefly interrupted by what appeared to be the sound of a loud fart.