A witness testifying about alleged voter fraud in the presidential election went viral Tuesday after a contentious exchange with Michigan legislators.
“I know what I saw,” Melissa Carone, an IT specialist who worked for Dominion Voting Systems, said in response to her credibility being questioned during the hearing. “And I signed something saying that if I’m wrong, I can go to prison. Did you?”
Carone claims she witnessed “complete fraud” during her time overseeing vote counts at Detroit’s TCF center.
“The whole 27 hours I was there, there were batches of ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times, being counted 8 to 10 times,” Carone testified. “I watched this with my own eyes; I was there to assist with IT.”
At one point during the hearing, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared to try and shush Carone, and the performance quickly went viral on social media with both positive and negative reactions flowing in.
“Melissa Carone is my spirit animal,” Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted.
Melissa Carone is my spirit animal. https://t.co/ZR3Wq7rpd2
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) December 3, 2020
“A drunk woman is trump team’s star witness in michigan,” writer Marisa Kabas tweeted.
a drunk woman is trump team’s star witness in michigan pic.twitter.com/qGxEI3hp2G
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) December 3, 2020
“I’m obsessed with the sassy face,” author Mike Cernovich tweeted.
I’m obsessed with the sassy face. https://t.co/lHEcGwcpLt
— Cerno (@Cernovich) December 3, 2020
“I really truly can’t get enough of this,” Huffington Post Justice Department reporter Ryan J. Reilly tweeted. “The confidence and entitlement is just astounding!”
I really truly can’t get enough of this. The confidence and entitlement is just astounding! pic.twitter.com/NWEBS9W690
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 3, 2020
Several liberal blogs bashed Carone’s performance, calling it a “trainwreck” and something that belongs on Saturday Night Live.
After the hearing, Michigan Republican Senate Oversight Chairman Ed McBroom said Giuliani’s team had offered intriguing circumstantial evidence but suggested it wasn’t enough to show enough votes were fraudulent to swing the election.
“They’ve offered some circumstantial evidence, maybe even been intriguing,” McBroom said. “But I haven’t yet seen the proof come in that says, ‘Yeah, absolutely, there were 300,000 fraudulent votes.'”
President Trump is continuing his legal fight across several battleground states contesting the election results and alleging widespread voter fraud despite media declaring Joe Biden the president-elect. Some Republicans have called on the president to concede, while others have encouraged him to exhaust every legal challenge possible before the Electoral College electors meet on Dec 14.
