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Social Media
stated on February 13, 2023 in social media posts:

“Michigan State University suspect is 22-year-old ‘Raymone Jordan.’”

By Loreben Tuquero • February 15, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on February 13, 2023 in a Facebook post:

The Michigan State University shooter is a 21-year-old man named Lynn Dee Walker.

By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2023
Viral image
stated on November 9, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows “late-night operatives moving van-loads of suspicious ballots way after legal deadline in Detroit.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 10, 2022
Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2022 in a Truth Social post:

In Detroit, “people are showing up to vote only to be told, ‘sorry, you have already voted.’”

By Tom Kertscher • November 9, 2022
Citizens to Support MI Women & Children
stated on October 18, 2022 in a tweet:

If Proposal 3 passes, it would allow children to undergo "gender-change therapy without parental consent"

By Dave Boucher • November 2, 2022
Viral image
stated on October 29, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Hecklers chanted “f--- Joe Biden” during a Barack Obama speech.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 31, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on October 25, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The documentary “2,000 Mules proves” Democrats “cheated on the 2020 elections.”

By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2022
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 9, 2022 in an ad:

Following protests in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2020, Democratic U.S. House candidate Hillary Scholten "dismissed the destruction and praised the rioters."

By Todd Spangler • September 13, 2022
John Gibbs
stated on June 23, 2022 in a campaign email:

Peter Meijer voted to “create the Adam Schiff-led January 6th Commission.”

By Clara Hendrickson • July 6, 2022
Kevin Rinke
stated on June 1, 2022 in a campaign ad:

"Dead people always vote Democrat."

By Clara Hendrickson • June 2, 2022
The Gateway Pundit
stated on April 24, 2022 in a blog post:

“A STOLEN ELECTION: State totals minus illegal ballot trafficking numbers give President Trump decisive victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 4, 2022
Mike Shirkey
stated on August 16, 2021 in a TV interview:

“I don’t need” the COVID-19 vaccine. “I have natural immunity” that lasts “forever.”

By Clara Hendrickson • August 18, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on May 9, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Michigan has requested a full forensic audit."

By Clara Hendrickson • May 11, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2021
Mike Shirkey
stated on February 16, 2021 in a radio interview:

“Too many dead people voted” in Michigan

By Dave Boucher • February 16, 2021
The Gateway Pundit
stated on February 5, 2021 in an article:

“Newly discovered video shows late night deliveries of tens of thousands of illegal ballots 8 hours after deadline.”

By Clara Hendrickson • February 5, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:

An “audit report” found that a voting system used in Michigan in the 2020 presidential election was designed to “create systemic fraud.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2020 in a tweet:

“68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent.”

By Paul Egan • December 15, 2020
Sidney Powell
stated on November 8, 2020 in an interview with Fox News:

“At least 450,000 ballots in the key states ... miraculously only have a mark for Joe Biden on them, and no other candidate."

By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on November 18, 2020 in a tweet:

“Michigan just refused to certify the election results!”

By Clara Hendrickson • November 18, 2020
Big League Politics
stated on October 30, 2020 in a video:

Detroit election worker trainings “reveal the mechanisms of the planned theft of the election”

By Clara Hendrickson • November 11, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2020 in a screenshot:

A judge has ordered a "HAND RECOUNT by an INDEPENDENT COMMISSION in the state of Michigan, following hard evidence of voting fraud by Detroit City Election Commission."

By Daniel Funke • November 11, 2020
Tweets
stated on November 5, 2020 in a tweet:

A list shows over 14,000 dead people voted in Wayne County, Michigan.

By Clara Hendrickson • November 6, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Republican election challengers were unfairly barred from observing absentee ballot processing and counting in Detroit.

By Clara Hendrickson • November 6, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“118-year-old William Bradley voted via an absentee ballot in Wayne County, Michigan this year. William died in 1984. They’re trying to steal this election.”

By Amy Sherman • November 5, 2020
Bloggers
stated on November 4, 2020 in an article:

Wagon arriving at Detroit counting center after deadline “may have been a ballot box.”

By Clara Hendrickson • November 5, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Detroit has “2,503 dead people registered” including “one voter born in 1823.”

By Amy Sherman • November 5, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 5, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Joe Biden was called for Michigan even though Donald Trump won more votes.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2020
Viral image
stated on November 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Any votes counted after midnight” on Election Day in Michigan “are fraud.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2020 in a tweet:

“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2020

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