Trump’s 2020 Bullying of Michigan Election Officials Is Blatant Authoritarianism

You’ve heard the old saw, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” A modern maxim might go like this: If you’re still not convinced Donald Trump is a literal authoritarian, then you're the one who is deranged. (Sadly, based on current polling, this description seems to apply to a lot of Republicans.)

The latest evidence comes to us via The Detroit News, where a 2020 phone call that then-President Trump made to two GOP election officials is making waves. (If this sounds familiar, it’s because Trump is currently indicted in Georgia as a direct result of a similar call around the same time.)

On the Michigan call—which was previously noted in the Jan. 6 committee’s report, but not nearly in such detail, and a recording of the call has not been made public—Trump reportedly pressured two Wayne County elections board members not to certify the 2020 results.

Read more at The Daily Beast.