Trump’s Declassified Docs Detail Massive Michigan Voter Registration Fraud

The declassified records offer a window into a massive voter registration fraud operation in Muskegon, Michigan.

The Federalist’s editor-in-chief in her 2021 book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, laid out a compelling case that some big corrupting forces used Covid fear to get their man — Joe Biden — elected in 2020.

In his address to the nation Thursday evening, President Donald Trump walked through some of the more egregious attacks on election integrity and security in a 2020 election that government bureaucrats absurdly declared “the most secure in American history.” And Trump brought the receipts.

During his primetime address, the White House released four tranches of newly declassified documents from intelligence community files, overseen by the White House Government Transparency Taskforce. The records expose China’s meddling in the election and point to hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on state voter rolls.

“The president’s news is shocking but not surprising given prior hacks of U.S. data by the Chinese. But what should make Americans very angry is the cover-up to hide what happened and the failure to prosecute wrongdoers for obvious politically partisan reasons,” Hans von Spakovsky, senior fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told The Federalist.

Some of the more damning documents come from the FBI’s investigation into a leftist voter registration scheme in swing state Michigan, where Democrat Joe Biden, as he did in other battlegrounds, claimed a narrow victory. The declassified records offer a window into a massive voter registration fraud operation in Muskegon, Michigan, and a years-long investigation that tracked as many as 10,000 suspicious or forged registration forms submitted in the weeks before election. They also undercut the real Big Lie by Democrats and their accomplice media pals, that election administration in the 2020 election is beyond reproach.

The probe involved thousands of man hours that included interviews with former employees of a canvassing company that witnesses say signed off on fictitious registrations and hired registration form pirates who traded marijuana and cash for voter regulation applications.

Trump said the Biden Justice Department slow-walked and eventually killed the case. The documents suggest the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity section did just that. Then Michigan’s leftist attorney general refused to press charges because the fraudulent activity was discovered and broken up before Election Day.

“Tonight, I am asking the FBI director to ensure the matter is fully investigated and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible for any crimes,” Trump said.

According to emails from the case file, the Muskegon Police Department was investigating suspicious registration forms flooding into the Muskegon City Clerk’s office in the weeks leading up to the election. State and federal law enforcement got involved in early October. On Oct. 5, the clerk’s office received six packages of voter registration applications via the U.S. Postal Service, an FBI email notes.

Muskegon elections officials determined that “some of the applications were fraudulent based on nonexistent addresses, invalid telephone numbers and signatures on applications not matching Michigan Secretary of State voting or DMV records,” the document states. Curiously, the forms appeared to have been completed in the same hand-writing.

The documents were delivered by one individual and arrived from the same address. That information is redacted. There are a lot of redactions in the files.The same individual hand-delivered numerous applications “with similar red flags,” according to the agency. Investigators estimated that the registration wrangler submitted “approximately 8,000 to 10,000 applications.”

FBI agents interviewed former employees of the registration form collector, approximately 100, and others, according to one email.

One woman told law enforcement officials that she worked for an organization (redacted). She said she was paid for voter registration work. Most of the frontline workers received prepaid debit cards for their efforts, records show.

“She was involved in similar registration drives in Detroit, Ypsilanti, Southfield, Flint, and Lansing,” the FBI email states. A data search revealed that she worked in 2018 for a candidate campaigning for Georgia’s 7th Congressional District seat, agents reported. The woman was paid $52,000 for “field consulting” and canvassing.

The case was being prosecuted by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a highly partisan Democrat, the FBI communication states.

One former employer told FBI agents that her bosses required her to submit “two to 3 applications to get paid.”

“Most of the employees submitted the registrations with false information because it was easy money,” the former form wrangler told investigators, according to one email.

In an interview on Dec 18, 2023, more than three years after the shenanigans-filled presidential election, one former employee told FBI agents that she knew of other canvassers “who would trade marijuana and money for voter registration applications.”

Employees told the law enforcement officials that canvassers were instructed, “if they couldn’t get enough applications, they should just fill them in.”

“This occurred at a meeting with over 100 employees present,” an email states. One of the employees asked what the company official meant. He picked up a blank application and filled it out, making up information and said, “This is what I mean,” the investigation records claim.

One former employee estimated she submitted 100 fake voter registration applications.

In a memo dated, Thursday Aug. 12, 2021, FBI agents were told by DOJ higher ups that “no further action should be taken in this district at this time.”

One agent in particular fought to keep the investigation alive. In a redacted email, the FBI official noted that investigators were preparing to close the probe.

“Before I do so, I was hoping to discuss with you the limited scope that PIN (Public Integrity section) approved in the investigation of the fraudulent voter registration applications,” the agent wrote. “It appears as though this type of fraud would result in a full field investigation.”

The agent’s arguments appear to have won out. Records show the investigation resumed. But nobody was ever held accountable. In 2023, Republicans in the Michigan House of Representative introduced articles of impeachment against Nessel, who, according to the lawmakers, “violated her constitutional oath of office by failing to faithfully discharge the duties of her office.”

“Despite the fact that an October 2020 investigation found evidence that an organization submitted clearly fraudulent voter registration applications to the Muskegon City Clerk, Attorney General Nessel has failed to charge those responsible for forging and filing these documents,” the resolution stated.

The Michigan State Police, which worked with Nessel’s office on the state probe into the fraud allegations, covered for the controversial attorney general.

“[N]one of the irregular voter registrations in Muskegon resulted in voters receiving absentee ballots, any resulting registrations have been voided, and there is no expected impact on any election,” the law enforcement agency said in a statement.

Michigan played a pivotal role in deciding the closely contested 2020 election. It also was plagued with election irregularities that created confusion and raised doubts about the state’s election administration. Far-left Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, like election officials in other swing states, opened Michigan’s election administration doors to massive amounts of Zuckbucks — and the leftist political operatives that came with it.

The state received approximately $8 million in election safety grants distributed by the Center for Technology and Civic Life, a leftist election group founded by former Obama campaign staff, Detroit, a Democrat stronghold, received the biggest chunk: $3.5 million. CTCL raked in an eye-popping $350 million in funding from Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, money used in large part for a get-out-the vote drive targeting liberal voters. The groups in the CTCL network were deeply engaged in voter registration efforts.

Several states have banned private money in election administration. Michigan is not one of them.

In her testimony before the House Administration Committee in 2024, Hemingway warned of the takeover of election administration by politically motivated private entities.

“Instead of having election administration that is rigorously nonpartisan and impartial under the law, we have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by partisan oligarchs and their armies of activists who use those offices and their authorities to tilt the election toward favored candidates,” The Federalist’s editor-in-chief said.

Thank you for referencing that article MtnClimber.

At least a scintilla of evidence for the public that voting integrity has possibly been compromised.

As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.

We've passed the middle of an election year and patriots still need to wise up to a misleading statement by a leading conservative news channel that Oval Office is most powerful office in the land.

In stark contrast to the throne room Oval Office straight from Hollywood, it remains that one of the very few MAIN powers that the Constitution's drafters gave to the federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to deliver the mail.

In fact, note that the drafters appropriately required Congress to meet only once a year so that they could approve artwork for new postage stamps.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. (non-FR)
Article I, Section 4, Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year [emphasis added], and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In other words, most federal domestic policy is now based on post-FDR era stolen state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues (people's wallets), such revenues stolen from states by means of the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification (17A; popular vote for federal senators) Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (16A; direct taxes).

Regarding the 16&17A, those amendments effectively repealing the whole Constitution imo, here's the poop.

Consider that most post-17A ratification lawmakers discovered long ago that they could promise voters who have evidently never really studied the fed's constitutionally limited powers every unconstitutional federal social spending program under the sun to get themselves elected. Constitutionally naïve voters eventually took the bait and elected these crooks, and then reelected them!

Then once in office, criminal-minded lawmakers abuse their 16A powers by simply fulfilling their campaign promises for unconstitutional federal spending, scandalously ignoring their constitutional Article I, Section 8 spending limits when doing so.

In fact, here's the Madison Test for constitutionally justifiable federal spending bills which probably very few such bills that Congress has ever passed would comply with.

Regarding the Madison Test, note that the 14th Congress in the time of President James Madison (4th pres.), Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had found some EXISTING tax revenues and got all happy about spending it. So Congress drafted the Bonus Bill of 1817 to use the taxpayer dollars to improve military readiness and commerce by authorizing the construction of roads and canals intended to facilitate moving troops and manufactured goods. But Congress had based the bill solely on the General Welfare Clause (GWC) which turned out to be a BIG mistake.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States [emphasis added]; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

More specifically, while Madison AGREED with Congress that the bill would improve transportation, he diplomatically clarified in his veto explanation that while the GWC authorizes Congress to tax and spend, he reminded Congress that the Constitution's drafters, Madison himself a major player, had intended for the clauses that followed it in Section 8 to limit what Congress could spend tax dollars for, no mention of roads and canals for Congress's purpose for the Bonus Bill. Madison also noted that the bonus bill didn't even pass Congress's traditional "wild card" excuse for justifying spending, the infamous "Necessary and Proper Clause."

The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers, or that it falls by any just interpretation within the power to make laws necessary and proper [emphasis added] for carrying into execution those or other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States. —President James Madison, March 3, 1817: Veto Message on the Internal Improvements Bill

Note Thomas Jefferson's advice on interpreting Congress's limited powers complimented Madison's veto.

In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids. —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.

Getting back to 16A, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep state Congress, and desperately needs to be repealed.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear too.

Until those amendment are gone, all that the foolishly amended Constitution has done for our politically correct democracy is to give us citizen tax slaves the power to vote for, and then re-elect, our 16A-abusing masters.

Thanks for reply zeestephen.

My Dad - a rock solid Conservative - liked the brand new four lane highways, but he always pointed out that the reference to the Department of Defense was just a legal trick that enabled the federal government to build it.

Great observation by your dad!

I would call "Department of Defense" roads a MAJOR constitutional scandal instead of a legal trick though.

Respectfully to family and supporters of late President Eisenhower who signed USA Interstate Highway Bill (Eisenhower's National Freeway?) into law, as popular as Eisenhower was, he is an example of presidents who overlooked first leading Congress to first successfully petition the states to ratify an amendment to the Constitution to authorize Congress to tax and spend for such programs. The required constitutional amendment for anything more postal roads is missing from history.

In fact, popular President Wilson concerning the Federal Reserve, also popular but likewise Constitution-ignoring FDR, probably wouldn't have had problems with first securing appropriate new amendments to the Constitution by the states for their national programs like Social Security. So what were these presidents thinking?

In fact, first noting that the 10th Amendment uniquely gives the states, not the feds, the broad powers to establish retirement and healthcare programs, consider this. The post-17th Amendment ratification voters who supported FDR evidently did not understand, when FDR's activist majority Supreme Court justices wrongly found Social Security constitutional in Helvering v. Davis, Congress basing Helvering solely on GWC like 14th Congress did with Bonus Bill of 1817, President James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, vetoing that bill for same reason imo.

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution [all emphases added], nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
State inspection laws, health laws, [all emphases added] and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824. (Abuse of 16A)
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

Again, the post-17th Amendment ratification (popular voting for federal senators) corrupt Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) is facilitating all kinds of constitutionally indefensible, peacetime federal spending.

Those amendments need to disappear imo.

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