LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel's investigators have interviewed Laura Cox, the former chairwoman of the Michigan GOP, and other prominent Republican officials as they examine whether 16 Donald Trump supporters broke the law by signing a certificate falsely claiming he won the 2020 election.
Two years after the Trump electors convened in the basement of GOP headquarters in Lansing for a faux signing ceremony, Nessel's office is pressing on with a criminal probe that has already entangled former party officials. Cox, who served as GOP chairwoman for a two-year term covering 2019 and 2020, said she was subpoenaed for an interview in late September.
Cox, the wife of former Attorney General Mike Cox, declined to provide additional details. She wasn't present for the meeting of the Trump electors on Dec. 14, 2020, but held the party's top job at the time. She didn't agree with the strategy of submitting the certificate stating Trump won.
