“This is a Catastrophic Error” – Trump Lawyer Files Affidavit that Confuses Michigan With Minnesota

A lawyer for President Donald Trump appears to have filed an affidavit in the legal team’s Georgia lawsuit that confuses townships and precincts in Michigan with those that are located in Minnesota, a mistake that, according to law veteran John H. Hinderaker, amounts to a “catastrophic error.”

Hinderaker, a 41-year law practitioner and head of the Minnesota think tank Center of the American Experiment, has brought to light the error in the affidavit filed by Trump lawyer Lin Wood and signed by Russell Ramsland, a Texas resident who is an expert on cyber security.

The affidavit is part of the Trump team’s case relating to Dominion voting systems and pertains to the state of Michigan.

Paragraph 9 of the affidavit reads:

“Based on the significant anomalies and red flags that we have observed, we believe there is a significant probability that election results have been manipulated within the Dominion/Premier system in Michigan.“

It goes on to explain the anomalies and red flags in paragraph 11:

“Another statistical red flag is evident is evident in the number of votes cast compared to the number of voters in some precincts. A preliminary analysis using data obtained from the Michigan Secretary of State pinpoints a statistical anomaly so far outside of every statistical norm as to be virtually impossible. … There were at least 19 precincts where the Presidential Votes Cast compared to the Estimated Voters based on Reported Statistics exceeded 100%.“

Further, it provides a list of the 19 precincts:

The issue here, as Hinderaker highlights, is that those townships and precincts are actually located in Minnesota.

Hinderaker writes in a Thursday blog post:

“Here’s the problem: the townships and precincts listed in paragraphs 11 and 17 of the affidavit are not in Michigan. They are in Minnesota. Monticello, Albertville, Lake Lillian, Houston, Brownsville, Runeberg, Wolf Lake, Height of Land, Detroit Lakes, Frazee, Kandiyohi–these are all towns in Minnesota. I haven’t checked them all, but I checked a lot of them, and all locations listed in paragraphs 11 and 17 that I looked up are in Minnesota, with no corresponding township in Michigan. This would have been obvious to someone from this state, but Mr. Ramsland is a Texan and the lawyers are probably not natives of either Minnesota or Michigan.”

The longtime lawyer speculates that the error occurred when Ramsland or someone working for him confused “MI” for Minnesota with “MI” for Michigan when working within a database.

“This is a catastrophic error, the kind of thing that causes a legal position to crash and burn,” claims Hinderaker. “Trump’s lawyers are fighting an uphill battle, to put it mildly, and confusing Michigan with Minnesota will at best make the hill steeper.”

“Credibility once lost is hard to regain. Possibly Trump’s lawyers have already discovered this appalling error, and have undertaken to correct it. But the Ramsland Affidavit was filed in Georgia just yesterday.”

Hinderaker directs some criticism towards Trump’s legal team, saying “[they] have not yet had their day in court, but they will have to do a great deal better than this if they hope to succeed.” He also suspects that the Ramsland affidavit may have been filed in multiple cases.

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Joseph Jankowski is an Editor-at-Large for Planet Free Will. His works have been published by major news publications such as ZeroHedge.com and Infowars.com.