Shirkey confirms to AP Trump talked about Mich. election results with GOP delegation.

[Nevilledog]

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David Eggert
@DavidEggert00
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Nov 24, 2020
I talked to Republican Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey today. He said this: 'Wayne County didn't determine the outcome for the presidential race in Michigan. It was Kent County and Oakland County that did.'

Shirkey confirms to @AP Trump talked about Mich. election results with GOP delegation. He says at 1 point, Trump got Giuliani to call in & Giuliani repeated the Wayne County allegations he had raised in a news conference last Thursday. Shirkey says meeting was 'innocuous'

Shirkey: 'There was no...asking for anything, other than understanding how does Michigan's law work. Once Speaker Chatfield & I made it abundantly clear that our laws are very specific, very clear, no room for ambiguity, basically that was the end of the conversation...'

Shirkey said he was in his workshop taking off his hunting clothes last Wednesday when Trump called to invite him to the White House. “You get the president of the United States calling you on your personal phone and he asks you to come visit him, I'm going. I don't care who is."

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Shirkey estimated that in the 60- to 90-minute meeting with Trump, 'less than half' was devoted to discussions on the election - 'especially if you take out the dialogue we had with Giuliani, it was far less than that.'

[soothsayer]

1. Oh good. Biden should ring him up for a visit sometime.

[Nevilledog]

2. How about we have the Biden DOJ give him a visit?

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. His last remark makes no sense.

"I don't care who is."

I would answer the phone, establish it was Trump, then hang up.

[Iliyah]

4. Therefore the republicans lied in their statement . . .

[crickets]

8. +1

[Cha]

5. So what's Shirkey saying about Biden

Winning MI.. that Kent & Oakland had more Votes for Biden than Wayne?

I bet Wayne Co still had a LOT of Biden VOTES.

TY!

[Best_man23]

6. We need to make "Committing a Shirkey" a thing

Like "Scaramucci" became a thing for measuring time (e.g. tRump has less than 6 Scaramucci's left).

[Nevilledog]

10. Pardon me, I have to go take a Shirkey.

[Biophilic]

7. Sure sounds like a mafia movie to me.

The don never says anything that will get him in trouble, but the "guys" all know what's being said. So how come the one guy obviously had planned on voting 'no' and only at the end found himself having to simply abstain instead. At least that certainly was what it looked and sounded like.

[C_U_L8R]

9. One thing this story makes hilariously clear

Trump has zero clout. No political capital. No sway or persuasive power. He's a nobody.

[apnu]

11. That, above all things, chaps his ass the most.

Trump measures his worth in power, appearance, and clout. He has none of that now.

[roamer65]

12. Nah. Don't believe it.

[pecosbob]

13. Personally, I would have told him to f*ck off, just as you should have done.

Shirkey said he was in his workshop taking off his hunting clothes last Wednesday when Trump called to invite him to the White House. “You get the president of the United States calling you on your personal phone and he asks you to come visit him, I'm going. I don't care who is."

[Ms. Toad]

14. This is nonsense

based on his statemnts and vote yesterday:

I made it abundantly clear that our laws are very specific, very clear, no room for ambiguity, basically that was the end of the conversation

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[obamanut2012]

15. I was thinking that -- his rant yesterday negates this

Liar.

[Nevilledog]

16. You're thinking of Shinkle.

[Ms. Toad]

18. You're right - I confused my irresponsible Republicans with similar names. n/t

[Nevilledog]

19. I did at first, but Shirkey doesn't look like Evil Santa, so I knew it was a different wanker.

[Ms. Toad]

20. I didn't see a picture -

But evil santa pretty much covers the other S-named republican.

[Ms. Toad]

17. You're right! Too many irresponsible folks with similar names. Thanks!