Mellissa Carone: "I will not giove up."
Michigan's Mellissa Carone, a star witness for Rudy Giuliani at a Lansing hearing on election irregularities, and the subject of an SNL sketch last weekend, spoke at a receptive Trump rally in Washington on Saturday.
"The things that have been said to me lately have been terrible," the Grosse Pointe Woods mom said to the crowd that chanted "We love you."
"I will not give up this fight. I will keep exposing the fraud that I saw and we will win this. We will take it back. This was a stolen election. This was the most important election of our lives."
"Donald Trump is the best president we've ever had. He cares about us. He cares about Americans and this is for our kids, this is for my children so they have the right to vote. And I will not stand down to these senators, I won't."
Carone, an IT contractor for the voting machine company, provided unsubtantiated testimony in Lansing that she witnessed election fraud at the TCF Center in Detroit. She also signed an affidavit to that effect for a failed lawsuit challenging votes in Wayne County.
This past week, the city of Detroit filed a brief in the failed U.S. Supreme Court election challenge, calling Carone's statements “particularly inaccurate and troubling."
“She was a contract worker, hired by a third party to assist with occasional malfunctions of the tabulating machines," wrote Detroit's attorney David Fink. "She has no known training in election law or procedures, and her affidavit and public statements have displayed a startling ignorance of how votes are counted. Ms. Carone believes that she saw evidence that ballots were counted more than once at the TCF Center. Her main allegation—that hundreds or thousands of ballots were counted twice or more—cannot possibly be true.”
Two days after her Lansing testimony, Deadline Detroit reported she had gotten into trouble in 2018 with Southgate Police after she sent her then-boyfriend's ex-wife graphic videos of the two of them having sex. She was accused of harassing the ex-wife and eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
The next evening, she was the subject of a cold opening on "Saturday Night Live."
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— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) December 12, 2020
