Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore says he’s willing to pay the fines of Republican members of the Electoral College who decide not to vote for President-elect Trump on Monday.
“Some states have made it ‘illegal’ for you to vote any other way than for Trump,” Moore wrote on a Facebook post Sunday night. “If you don’t vote for him, your state will fine you $1,000. So here’s my offer to you: I obviously can’t and won’t give you money to vote tomorrow, but if you do vote your conscience and you are punished for it, I will personally step up pay your fine which is my legal right to do.”
“I am writing you not as a card-carrying Democrat (I’m not) who voted for Hillary (I did), but simply because I am an American who, like you, deeply loves this country and its people,” he wrote.
“Republican electors, you have a chance tomorrow to fix this, to make it right, for yourselves as Republicans and for the country,” Moore added. “Please find the courage to seize this historic moment where you put country over party.”
“I think you know something is wrong with this man. He just doesn’t seem ‘right.’ One crazy comment or action after another. He may not be well,” Moore warned his readers. “Don’t you have a responsibility to protect us from someone who might be mentally unstable?”
Moore also tweeted out his offer Monday morning.
Republican Electors — If you vote your conscience at noon and your state fines you for this, I will pay your fine: https://t.co/LIFVD4xjD4
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 19, 2016
Moore, a vocal critic of Trump, has predicted in the past that Trump’s victory will be short-lived. He also tried to convince Trump to step away from the presidency, calling Trump an “illegitimate president” who lost the popular vote.
While Moore is hoping the Electoral College can reverse the results of the election, Moore has said previously that the U.S. should “get rid of the Electoral College,” and said the mechanism is a “slave-owning idea” backed by low population Southern states.
Five hundred and thirty-eight electors from around the country will gather on Monday to cast their votes to determine who will be the president of the United States. Trump won 306 of those votes, to Hillary Clinton’s 232.
