Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday announced her office has indicted all 16 fake Trump 2020 electors in her state on forgery-related crimes, CNN reports. Charged are former state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock and other fake electors Kathy Berden, Rose Rook, Mayra Rodriguez, Hank Choate, Mari-Ann Henry, John Haggard, Cliff Frost, Kent Vanderwood, Stanley Grot, Marian Sheridan, Tim King, James Renner, Michele Lundgren, Amy Facchinello, and Ken Thompson.
The criminal complaint against Berden, who served as the Michigan RNC National Committeewoman during the coup attempt, lists eight total counts: conspiracy to commit forgery, two counts of forgery, conspiracy to commit utter and publishing, uttering and publishing, conspiracy to commit election law forgery, and two counts of election law forgery with a maximum total penalty of fucking 85 years in prison and $32,000 in fines. Berden is a close ally of RNC National Chair and fellow Michigander Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel and the person whom Ronna had in mind when she famously wrote that people were being victimized by “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” from the House January 6th Committee investigation.
Yes, Ronna did open herself up to completely valid criticism as her lack of specificity made it sound like she meant the Capitol rioters with that stupid shit. But she reportedly had really meant to refer to Berden and other “legitimate political” actors who were subpoenaed by the committee.