The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Voter Fraud EXPOSED with Tony Forlini

Summary

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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Voter Fraud EXPOSED with Tony Forlini

Episode Date: January 16, 2026
Host: Tudor Dixon
Guest: Tony Forlini (Macomb County Clerk, Michigan)

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Overview

This episode centers on voter fraud concerns in Michigan, particularly revelations Tony Forlini, Macomb County Clerk, uncovered about non-citizens appearing on the voter rolls and potentially voting in recent elections. The conversation explores shortcomings in Michigan’s voter registration process and the steps Forlini is taking to secure elections. It also touches on the broader implications for election security and political power in Michigan and, potentially, nationwide.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Theme of Fraud, Power, and Election Legitimacy

• Tudor Dixon frames the discussion through the lens of ongoing claims of waste, fraud, and abuse in government, with special attention to how those issues may affect elections and political outcomes ([01:29]).
  • Quote:
    "How are these yahoos getting elected? Like, how is it possible that these Democrats are getting elected... generally they're awful people... They have zero leadership experience..." (Tudor Dixon, [03:04])
• She posits that post-2016, Democrats in Michigan and elsewhere shifted tactics to “win at all costs,” tying in her suspicions of “communist” tendencies and alleged cheating since Trump’s unexpected victory.

2. Statistical Anomalies and Political Shifts in Michigan Elections

• Dixon reviews Michigan election results to highlight irregularities, e.g. sudden surges in Democratic vote totals between 2014 and 2018 ([07:50]).
  • Quote:
    "How does Whitmer suddenly increase 800,000 votes? And those numbers have never changed... we've said for years, how is this possible?" (Tudor Dixon, [07:52])

3. Introducing Tony Forlini: Election Oversight and Discovery

• Forlini is introduced as a diligent and reform-minded county clerk in the state’s third-largest county ([08:52]).
• He is credited for investigating unusual voting patterns in Macomb and uncovering significant concerns.
• Notable: Forlini is now running for Secretary of State to implement statewide reforms.

4. Discovery: Non-Citizens on Jury Pools and Voter Rolls

• Forlini describes how his quest for efficiency in jury selection uncovered a startling issue: non-citizens summoned for jury duty were also registered to vote ([09:33]).
  • Quote:
    "It was shocking to me that we found 239 people in the jury pool being summoned that were non-citizens..." (Tony Forlini, [10:12])
• Upon cross-referencing with the Qualified Voter File (QVF, Michigan’s registered voter database), 14 of these non-citizens were on the voter rolls, and three had a voting record (one voted multiple times) ([11:32], [11:36]).
  • Quote:
    "Out of 239... 14 were on that list. And of course the follow up question is how many actually did vote? Three of them have a voting record. One of them several times. So this is serious stuff." (Tony Forlini, [11:36])

5. Flawed Registration Process and Lack of Safeguards

• Forlini points out that Michigan’s current voter registration relies heavily on self-attestation of citizenship with little verification ([16:20]).
  • Discussion:
    • Applicants can check they are citizens and, if lacking ID or a Social Security Number, still register.
    • No statewide system exists to automatically validate citizenship status, enabling non-citizens to slip through.
  • Quote:
    "If you don't have that, there's another box you check: I don't have a Michigan driver's license, I don't have a Michigan ID, nor do I have a Social Security number. So now you check that box. You're in. You're in." (Tony Forlini, [17:14])

6. Implications for Justice System & Election Integrity

• Non-citizens on jury pools can influence judicial outcomes, raising questions about fairness ([19:10]).
  • Quote:
    "We are judged by Americans, not by foreigners." (Tony Forlini, [19:40])
• Federal authorities have become involved, with subpoenas issued for records and ongoing investigations ([20:19]).

7. The Challenge of Contesting or Correcting Past Elections

• Dixon describes enormous obstacles to retroactively challenging election results, both for her own run for governor and for Trump’s legal team ([20:42]).
  • Change efforts are now focused on moving forward with lawsuits and reforms.

8. Forlini’s Election Security Reforms in Macomb County

• Incremental Improvements:
  • Shutting off ballot tabulator modems (increased result time, but reduced interference risk) ([22:21])
  • Implementing watermarked ballot paper for security ([23:34])
  • Training in digital security and ballot traceability
  • Routine cleaning of voter rolls, e.g., verifying and removing deceased voters ([25:42])
  • Transparent, accessible post-election record-keeping ([23:51])
• Quote:
  "I was the first county clerk in the state of Michigan to shut off the modems...I want to bring confidence back to our elections." (Tony Forlini, [22:21])

9. Vision for Statewide Reform & Secretary of State Campaign

• Forlini vows to bring these measures to all Michigan counties if elected Secretary of State, prioritizing trust and accountability.
  • Quote:
    "We are going to do everything we can to bring the confidence back to elections, whether it's cleaning up the voter rolls, which we've recently done..." (Tony Forlini, [25:42])
• Emphasizes the national implications of Michigan’s election integrity and solicits national support.

10. Personal Touches and Local Flavor

• The episode’s end features a lighthearted exchange about Macomb County’s vibrant food scene, family, and Forlini’s Italian heritage ([34:15]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the System’s Flaws:
  "Because there's nothing in the system to kick it out. There's no checks by the state. And that's why there really needs to be a national database."
  — Tony Forlini ([18:05])

• On Election Security Philosophy:
  "You can't change it all overnight, but you can make a little bit of a change all the way through. And for five years that's what I've been doing."
  — Tony Forlini ([26:17])

• On Voting Anomalies:
  "5% of that jury pool was registered to vote. 21% of those actually did vote."
  — Tony Forlini ([16:20])

• On Community and Confidence:
  "I want people to feel comfortable with [elections]...Complete transparency."
  — Tony Forlini ([23:38])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00–01:29 — Ads and intro
• 01:29–09:33 — Tudor sets the stage: fraud, political shifts, and election suspicions in Michigan
• 09:33–12:24 — Tony Forlini details the initial discovery of non-citizens in the jury pool and on voter rolls
• 15:10–19:10 — Discussion of flaws in voter registration, consequences for the justice system
• 20:19–22:45 — Federal involvement and lawsuits; recounting obstacles to challenging past elections
• 22:45–25:42 — Forlini’s local security measures: modems, watermarks, ballot transparency
• 25:42–29:01 — Cleaning up voter rolls (removal of deceased voters)
• 29:07–31:49 — Forlini’s history, transparency efforts, and campaign for Secretary of State
• 31:49–36:32 — Forlini on Macomb County, Trump support, family anecdotes
• 36:32–End — Campaign appeal, humor, closing remarks

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Conclusion

This episode underscores ongoing conservative concerns about election security, focusing on concrete vulnerabilities in Michigan's registration and vote validation system. Tony Forlini shares steps he's taken in Macomb County and his ambitions for broader reform as Secretary of State. The discussion merges specific examples (e.g., noncitizen voter registration) with advocacy for systemic reform and a highly partisan, sometimes humorous, tone. Listeners are encouraged to engage with state-level races and watchdog local election processes.

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For more on Tony Forlini’s campaign: anthonyforlini.com
Full episode available on: Tudor Dixon Podcast, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Rumble.

Transcript

[Tudor Dixon]

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[Tudor Dixon]

Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. While the Trump administration ran on exposing fraud and a few other things, but fraud was a really big part of their campaign platform, if you remember. And looking back, you probably also remember Elon Musk joining the rallies. He talked about volunteering his time. He was going to expose waste, fraud and abuse. And then when President Trump took office, we had Doge and I believe that Doge was it essential they started cutting waste. And then the the pushback was really hard. You know, like there was all, all these people like oh my gosh, you can't cut all that money. But it was essential to opening the minds of the people that there actually is fraud, waste and abuse. And when you are in positions of power, there is the opportunity to abuse the system. Why was that pushback so hard at the time when Elon Musk was out there? Well, first of all, there's coordinated efforts when you have someone as powerful and as r Elon Musk, they create all these organizations and they start to try to chip away at his integrity. So we saw that. But also, I think for the American people, it's like very offensive. You know, it's like really unbelievable to think all of your money has been given to the government. You've given them, you know, almost half of your money and then they've given it back to all these fraudulent organizations. And at first it was like, oh, I don't want my money to be going to foreign governments and foreign countries. But then we start to see what's happening just on the local level. So you see Minnesota and you go, why is this happening? But if you take a step back, it really actually makes sense because we've said this for years. How are these yahoos getting elected? Like, how is it possible that these Democrats are getting elected? Because generally, I mean, you've got a few that have the it factor, but generally they're awful people. They're really bad at their jobs or they haven't had a job, they are not capable of speaking. I mean, look at Kamala Harris. She was a total disaster. And they have zero leadership experience these a lot of times. I mean, Kamala Harris was an attorney, but she's never led anything. She's never run a company. And no foreign policy experience. None. I mean, I seem to remember her even saying, I haven't been to Europe either. Well, a perfect example that she had no foreign policy experience. Look at Obama himself. He was a first term senator. He was an attorney, he was a lecturer. Does an attorney and a lecturer, I mean, really, there are quite a few jokes about attorneys, but is an attorney and lecturer the guy you want running the country? He was one of the few with that it factor. I talked to. He could talked about, he could speak convincingly. He was good at the community organizing, probably good at the fraud. I mean, similar to Mamdani, he could get groups together and they looked at him as like he was. There was something special about him. Again, he had that it factor. The strange appeal, even with no message and no experience. And you have to look at that because Trump has that it factor. But he's run companies all over the globe, all across the world. He has worked, he's made deals with people from every country. And yet these Democrats on the other side legitimately have no experience. Mamdani is just the son of someone. Like he's just working for his mama and now he's running the most important city in the world. How is it happening? You have to ask yourself, there's money and abuse of power at all levels. There's manipulative dialogue. These people say certain things and it draws people in. In Minnesota, these fraudsters who took billions of taxpayer money, most of them actually put it back into the campaigns of the democr Democrats who looked the other way. The whole concept of, you scratch our back, we'll scratch yours. That's actually nearly the exact conversation that was recorded with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison when he was running between him and one of these fraudsters. Like, hey, man, we understand you need money to get elected, but you gotta take care of us, too. And turns out that fraudster was later indicted. But what about the votes? Because we've been suspicious for a long time. Definitely since 2020, there's something going on with the votes. This is not normal. So I would say in Michigan, it's been a little different. Because in Michigan, I think since 2018, there was something strange going on with the votes. And I believe that this started in 2018 because Donald Trump has that it factor. Because Donald Trump is this anomaly in politics that comes out and says whatever he wants, might even give you the finger occasionally, but he does whatever he wants, and people still come out and vote for him. And people. And the Democrats are like, what the heck? How is this happening? So they saw that they really believed Hillary was going to win. I mean, remember all the people crying and screaming at the sky? They thought Hillary was going to win, and then she got toasted by him in 2016. So then Michigan changes in 2018, and I believe that's when they were like, we can't win because we're losers. So since we have no policy, we have no plan, we have no message, but we just want power and control, and we want to, like, you know, become communists. We're going to cheat because communists cheat anyway. So suddenly I start looking at the numbers in Michigan. You explained to me why in 2014, the Democrat who ran for governor in 2014 received 1.4 million votes and the Republican got like 1.65. So the Republican was just a little bit ahead of the Democrat. Then 2018, suddenly things massively change. Whitmer comes in with almost 2.3 million. The Republican is 1.8, doesn't go up that much. It's not like this insane inflamed number. Like this number didn't just go out of control, but how does Whitmer suddenly increase 800,000 votes? And those numbers have never changed. Those 800,000 votes in Michigan that suddenly appeared two years after an election have Stayed there. So we've said for years, how is this possible? But we don't have control. So one thing you have to understand, State, is that we have a corrupt Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, who is now running for governor. Katie Hobbs situation. Secretary of State running her own election for governor. We have an Attorney General that is as corrupt as they come. Dana Nestle is a Democrat. She is. There's no check on power. Gretchen Whitmer, she's just making videos and climbing the political ladder. So she is never going to say no to anything that's happening on the Democrat side. And we've got a Democrat Supreme Court. There are no checks whatsoever. And for the last year we, or the last two years we had a situation where before 24, they, they controlled everything. Now we've got a Republican House, but we're on shaky ground because we don't know what's happening with the votes. So my friend Tony Ferlini, some people call him Anthony, but those of us who know him call him Tony. He's the current Macomb County Clerk here in Michigan. Macomb is one of our biggest counties in Michigan. Donald Trump is well loved in Macomb. After 2020, everybody's like, how, how did we lose this election? Tony was on it. He was looking at the numbers, he's trying to figure it out, but he's never stopped. And he recently found something that is really disturbing. So I'm going to welcome him into the program. Tony, thanks for coming on. Tell us what you found in Michigan when it comes to voting.

[Tony Forlini]

Well, Tudor, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it because this is an important message. This is something that when we came upon this and stumbled across it through cross checking databases, we found something that was incredibly alarming. The first thing is I've won national awards for operational efficiency. So I'm always looking at how do we make our department a little bit more efficient, do a little bit better, bring a better service to all of our citizens. And in doing that we're looking at the jury room which is a smaller part of my overall operation. And, and I asked them why is it there's so many jurors that are being dismissed? And various reasons. Right. But the one reason that really caught my attention was non citizens that were being dismissed. And I thought that was interesting. I says give me those numbers if you can and we can actually change the software system back in September. I says give me everything since September. At least give me a sampling. I want to see what we're looking at. And it was shocking to me that we found 239 people in the jury pool being summoned that were non citizens. And I thought, how can this even be? Why would they ever be? I mean, we don't get 17 year olds because they're not old enough. Why is it so easy for noncitizens to be brought into this jury pool? But then it occurred to me, it was like a revelation here. He said, wait a minute, give me these names, I want you. And it just so happens the same supervisor is overseeing both departments at the time. Give me those names. And do me a favor and go over to the election department. I want you to pull every one of these names and see if they are also on the qvf.

[Tudor Dixon]

Well, what's the QVF for? People who don't know.

[Tony Forlini]

Qualified voter file. So that's the statewide system that the Secretary of State maintains, the qualified voter files. And so these are all people that are registered to vote.

[Tudor Dixon]

Well, turns out non citizens registered to vote.

[Tony Forlini]

Well, they're supposed to be citizens registered to vote. There should never be a non citizen on that database. Never turned out. Out of 239tudor, 14 were on that list. 14 people that could have actually voted. And of course the follow up question is how many actually did vote? Three of them have a voting record. One of them several times. So this is serious stuff. We heard about the Chinese person in Ann Arbor made a big splash about it. We caught this guy. Just one shows you the system works. Hang on. We found three out of a sample of 239.

[Tudor Dixon]

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[Tudor Dixon]

For people who don't Remember back in 24 suddenly we find out just before the election because we had early voting and we have all kinds of bananas absentee voting. And we find out that this foreign national voted and everybody was like, oh, you know, see this is this Chinese national in in at the University of Michigan voted in our election and it was a big deal because the Secretary of State came out and she kind of announces, yes, we're aware there's nothing we can do. We can't pull back a vote now, but we're, we're on top of it. And it was almost like, is this some sort of a psychological operation on us to make us believe? She's like, oh I I've got this. We found it. This is the only one. Because just in May she had told us it was not possible. And then I think this vote came in in October and she was like, oh, but don't worry, we found it. We're just not going to Pull out because we can't pull it out of the system. People were outraged then, but now you're telling me you just had the sampling for a few months and you've found that three people have voted, Which. First of all, I have a couple questions. One, you said there was a change in the system. Did that allow you to see this?

[Tony Forlini]

So the only reason I was able to go back at this point to September, we're pulling the systems from before. Also, it was easy for me to look at this grouping of people. So that was the reason. Now we're not done. We're going to do a little bit more. Okay. And we're not done. We're moving forward with every jury pool. We're going to check against that. So think about it, Tudor. 5% of that jury pool was registered to vote. 21% of those actually did vote. So. And the question is, how did they get in there to begin with? Well, if you look at the registration form to vote here in Michigan, this is the troubling part. This is the part that people need to understand. That's why there's this Citizens First Citizens Only initiative that's out there. Here's what the application looks like. I'm going to summarize it. Your name. Are you a US Citizen now? You know what? There's people that maybe are here in this country don't totally understand that question. So I'll give them a pass, maybe, right?

[Tudor Dixon]

That maybe I won't give them a pass.

[Tony Forlini]

I lived in Clinton Township. I'm a citizen. You know, that's kind of maybe what they're thinking. Let's just assume that we're in a, you know, you're innocent until you're proven guilty. You check the box. Yes, I'm a US Citizen. But then the next question is, give me your, you know, the last four digits of your Social Security number. Give me your driver's. Whatever. If you don't have that, there's another box you check. I don't have a Michigan driver's license. I don't have a Michigan id, nor do I have a Social Security number. So now you check that box. You're in. You're in.

[Tudor Dixon]

How is that possible, that the system doesn't kick you out?

[Tony Forlini]

Because there's nothing in the system to kick it out. There's no checks by the state. And that's why there really needs to be a national database. I think Trump has talked about it. President Trump talked about that. I saw some release he put out there that there should be a National database that our clerks can check against that. So it shouldn't be self reporting. It should be, we make sure you are a citizen. It should be very simple. We check the box, yes, they are a US Citizen, and send it in. Not self reporting. And what concerns me about the self reporting tutor is, you know, I am the clerk of the court. And being the clerk of the court, we also have. We're the ones bringing people in for the jurors. Right? We're checking them. They're self reporting. Is it possible, and it is possible that nobody said anything to us. They wanted to serve on a jury pool. And perhaps they got into the system and perhaps they actually made a judgment on some case that they weren't allowed to make judgment on.

[Tudor Dixon]

And someone could have either gone to jail or been let go based on the fact that someone from another country who has a different culture. And this is a serious concern. The culture in a different country is very different than ours. If you are not a citizen, you have not gone through the class. You do not understand our laws. You do not understand our procedures. There should be a safeguard to make sure that person is not making a decision on whether or not someone is safe in our country to be free.

[Tony Forlini]

We are judged by Americans, not by foreigners. Now, listen, I'm the son of a foreigner. My dad came over from Italy. He took all his American classes and all the things he did. He speaks English, does all these things. And I shouldn't say speak English. He always says, I speak American. So there's a process, right, that you want to be judged by your peers. Your peers are fellow Americans, not people that are not residents or they're residents, but they're not citizens of the United States.

[Tudor Dixon]

So how far do you think this goes? First, has Jocelyn Benson said anything about this?

[Tony Forlini]

I don't believe she has. She may have. I didn't see. You know, I'm all about process. The Bureau of Elections did reach out, as a matter of fact, I had three special agents from the federal government come into my office. They wanted us look into this a little bit more. So they're going to bring us subpoenas, which they should do and are doing. And we're going to provide the information when they. When they bring that to us.

[Tudor Dixon]

So that is fantastic news. I think that's what people in Michigan have been looking for. There was never that ability to connect with the federal government while Joe Biden was there. And again, I go back to. There are ways. Somehow I believe there are ways that the Democrats are getting elected and it's not all on the up and up. And I've had people say to me, and probably every time I post on social media, I've had people comment on that post saying, you didn't even fight your election. We were talking about hundreds of thousands of votes. There was no legal way to go back and fight that. And there's not enough money in the world and certainly not enough money from the donors in Michigan to go back and fight an election against an incumbent governor who has the power to do things to any vote, any. Any donor who would have had tried to help prove that there was some cheating in some way. But regardless of that, I think it's also critical to understand that going back is very challenging. And even President Trump would tell you and his team would tell you, going back was so challenging, we learned that you can't go back. That's why the RNC fully changed in 2024. The RNC had no ability to do anything. They had given up their ability to have lawsuits or fight any type of election. They came out guns blazing in 23 and 24 and said, we are going to make sure everything that's going on that's illegal at the Secretary of State's office across the country in all these different states, we're going to sue. Now, they sued Benson, like, eight times, and I think they won six of those.

[Tony Forlini]

Well, let me say this, Tudor. As the county clerk, I did everything within my power for the last five years. Little incremental changes. They might be little, but I think they're pretty big. I was the first county clerk in the state of Michigan to shut off the modems. This causes a little consternation with people. Results came in a little bit later, but we knew there was no modem interference or anything possible there.

[Tudor Dixon]

So I will say we complain about the fact that your results take so long. So now I know why. I'm not kidding. Every election, I'm like, what is Tony doing?

[Tony Forlini]

Well, you know, I'll tell you what, CNN did a little story on it that I actually was getting in police cars, being escorted to different precinct or to the clerks, grabbing their sticks and bringing them in, because I wanted to get these results in earlier. So it was a change that we're making a few other changes to do it a little quicker now. But I think there was enough concern about the modems that I felt like, I want to bring confidence back to our elections. And in order to do that, we had to eliminate all the little things out there. For instance, you know, I Introduced for the first time in Macomb County. Watermarked paper. You know, it costs us a penny more per page, but isn't that worth for the sanctity of these ballots to have that little bit of confidence that the paper being used is watermarked, it's official paper. They do it with a $20 bill. Why wouldn't they do it with our ballots? So we did that. We trained all our clerks to do hash validations. And all that means is how we program the sticks, the tabulator sticks that have that information and how we get it back. There was no foreign interference within that, and that was a big job to train them all to do that. And we did it because I think it's worth it. It's worth it to know that there's not outside interference. We turn our tabulators on so that when they scan the ballots, they're actually the images captured as a PDF and it shows in that tabulator with another page, another PDF that says, here's the ballot, here's how it's scored. Look at it, compare it to the tape. Complete transparency. I want people to feel comfortable with that. And if you want to FOIA them, it's very inexpensive to FOIA because we have it all electronic.

[Tudor Dixon]

Well, and that's what I think people don't understand. That's why right now it is so hard to go back and look, because other counties aren't doing that, and it can be the clerk's decision. But this isn't just at their fingertips. You have to be proactive to do this. If you were in the Secretary of State's position, you could say, we're going to do this across all counties. The watermark paper to me is so critical, and I think I want people to understand why that is critical, because there has been concern that people could copy the ballot, make copies of it, and then bring those in at the end of the night. We had a lot of those concerns when it was, you know, Detroit. Where did all these ballots come from? If you have the watermarked paper, you know that that was officially printed, that that was paid for by the state, that this isn't a co. That's why it's so critical. And the American people should be demanding this everywhere. You are running for Secretary of State right now in the state of Michigan. So do all of these changes that you've done in Macomb go into effect in the entire state if you are able to take that position back? For Republicans, we are going to do.

[Tony Forlini]

Everything we can to Bring the confidence back to elections, whether it's cleaning up the voter rolls, which we've recently done. We did some of it, you know, small. I'll give you a quick sample. 300 people. We had 600 people listed that they were over the age of 100. I had my office look at every single one of them. This is low lying fruit. People over the age of 100, let's just look at that. 300 of them are no longer with us. They're no longer with us. My wife doesn't like me to use the word they're dead. But you know, that's what happened.

[Tudor Dixon]

We had them.

[Tony Forlini]

Right? I know, I know. She doesn't like those words. So they're no longer with us. Tutor. And so that's the kind of stuff that we're doing. Incremental changes. You can't change it all overnight, but you can make a little bit of a change all the way through. And for five years that's what I've been doing. I've been doing this. Incremental changes all the way through. I hate looking backwards. We use 2020 and before as a really a study, if you will, of what went wrong. But I can't go back and complain about it. I can only go forward and make changes. So the things that people were concerned about, we can start eliminating those reasons. There's always going to be problems.

[Tudor Dixon]

I want to stop you because I do think it's key that you were in that position during those times. Because where you don't want to look back, you were there, you have that experience and having lived through it, that influences how you run your department today.

[Tony Forlini]

Right. And keep in mind, I didn't run the 2020 election. I won the 2020 election.

[Tudor Dixon]

Explain that, explain that to people.

[Tony Forlini]

So I ran as the county clerk in 2020 against an incumbent Democrat, one that was fairly popular. Nice guy, honestly. And so I won that election by 1500 votes. And of course everyone was complaining about the election was fixed and everything else. I'm thinking this poor guy before me that was a Democrat, you know, I beat him in an election that he was in charge of. Right. But it gave me a unique perspective because I had nothing to hide because I had everything to gain to try to find problems with what had happened before. Fraud. I didn't find the fraud in Macomb County. What I did find was protocols that weren't properly followed, things that would create doubt. And those are the things that I eliminated immediately. And moving forward started making it better and better. So it's important to note that I was in a good position to look at Macomb county and what happened in Macomb County. There's a lot of things we're still finding out, we're still trying to uncover. This jury service and how that all came together was just one of those things that we uncovered and continue to as we move forward, we have to keep our eyes open. We have to always keep our eyes open as to what is going on out there. What are the bad guys looking to do? How can we prevent it? It's really, you know, it's the bad guys. It's, you know, and it's sometimes it's because we have systems in place that are not very good. The protocols are not very good. The application to vote is one of those flaws.

[Tudor Dixon]

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[Tudor Dixon]

County loves President Trump.

[Tony Forlini]

They sure do. They sure do. Just outside my house here on Lake St. Clair, man, there is a flotilla. There. Must have been, I don't know, a thousand, two thousand boats that went right by, all waving their flags. That was back in 2016, 2016 and 2020. And by the way, President Trump won Macomb county in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

[Tudor Dixon]

I see you have a picture of him behind you there.

[Tony Forlini]

Oh, I do. This is a great picture. I love talking about it because this picture with President Trump happened in the White House. I was invited because the the president from Italy had come to visit and I was invited to come in. I had been knighted by him, by the way, few years before that.

[Tudor Dixon]

Whoa.

[Tony Forlini]

Okay.

[Tudor Dixon]

That's a whole nother story. You're tell us that someday.

[Tony Forlini]

Whole nother story. So I was invited to come in and it was the day my granddaughter, my daughter gave birth to my first granddaughter. First. First grandchild. And so I was getting a lot of grief from my wife and I told the president, I said, I'm really getting a lot of grief from my wife. But I had this onesie in my pocket I pulled out. I said, if you could sign this for my granddaughter, it'd make everything better. It didn't. But I said that to him. He laughed. He thought it was funny. He signed it and that's a picture of him signing it right there. And then right next to is the actual onesie. And so that is awesome. Yeah. In my I you know, when I brought it back, I, I asked my daughter where you want me to put it After I took the picture with her and she's. Oh, dad, just. She's in the hospital. So just put it over and they'll take care of it later. Stephie. No, it's not going to happen. I'm taking it. If she turns out to be a great kid at 18, I'll give it to her at her graduation. So for the time being, it's in safekeeping at my house.

[Tudor Dixon]

So. So she's not allowed at the Abolish ice rallies or anything like that. She's gotta be better, not be.

[Tony Forlini]

Good.

[Tudor Dixon]

Good. Well, I appreciate you, everything you do in Macomb County. I will just say, for those of you listening, I live on the other side of the state. I'm gonna say we have the best beaches, but you definitely have the best food in Macomb.

[Tony Forlini]

Ah, I'll let the restaurants know that.

[Tudor Dixon]

I mean, honestly, we're in a little bit of a food desert, I'm not gonna lie. But I go over there and I've never had a bad meal in Macomb County. You guys do food very well.

[Tony Forlini]

Well, that's why I look how I look and you look how you look. How's that?

[Tudor Dixon]

The Italians do food very well. I think that's part of it.

[Tony Forlini]

We were just at Luciano's last night.

[Tudor Dixon]

Oh, I'm jealous. Tell them I say hello.

[Tony Forlini]

I'll do that.

[Tudor Dixon]

They are wonderful. All right, so tell people you are running. This is a critical race. I want people to understand that when you look around the country, whatever state you are in, the races that you may not have paid attention to in the past, which I would say are Secretary of state, attorney general, prosecutors, local. Local races like that. But on the state level, ag and Secretary of State are races that I think historically Republicans have overlooked because we've thought of them nonpartisan. They are not nonpartisan. You want to have somebody in there who is going to look at it from a non biased perspective and make sure that it is running. Well, I believe that we have that person. But you are running. You're not there yet. We have to make sure that we have. We get Tony into that position as Secretary of state. Now. It's just this news came out that our lieutenant governor. I shouldn't say, I'll say Gretchen Whitmer's lieutenant governor, who I believe she used to get into the position that she's in and now she's just throwing him to the side. Like, I'm gonna have a guy with me, but I don't really care about him because she would not endorse him for governor. He's been running for governor for all these months, many, many months against Jocelyn Benson, our corrupt Secretary of state. But Jocelyn Benson is corrupt. She's traveled the country with Hillary Clinton. She's a bad egg. Okay. She and Hillary tight like this. I'm sure H made some sort of, you know, threat on Garland's life. Will suicide you? I don't know. I'm guessing. But somehow Garland decided to step out of this race, and now he's running for secretary of state. We do not want a trifecta of Democrats again. I think that this race is going to be very tight. We've got to make sure that people are supporting Republican candidates. So tell us your website.

[Tony Forlini]

So my, my website is real simple. My name anthonyforlini.com and that's where you can get information about me. There's a donate button which is so critically important for your national audience. This is a critical race. I think it has national implications. And I think this is something that the right person getting in could really make a lot of dramatic changes that can be used as an example across the country.

[Tudor Dixon]

I love how you're like, it's so simple. Anthonyforlini.com because, like, everybody knows how to spell forlini. It's F, O, R, L, I, N.

[Tony Forlini]

Doesn't everyone know that?

[Tudor Dixon]

I know. Right? We're not all Italian. Okay.

[Tony Forlini]

Right.

[Tudor Dixon]

Thank you so much. I appreciate you coming on today. Everybody check out his site. Check out what he's doing. I think you said the president retweeted the article about your press release and Elon Musk. So people know that you're working hard here.

[Tony Forlini]

We're working hard, but we do need the support of all the Patriots across the country. So it's not something that I don't believe. It's just Michigan that's at stake here. The rest of the country is also.

[Tudor Dixon]

Absolutely. Well, thank you, Tony Forlini. Thank you for coming on.

[Tony Forlini]

Thanks, tutor. Appreciate it.

[Tudor Dixon]

Absolutely. And thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon podcast. As always, you can get it wherever you get your podcast, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts. You can check out TutorDixonPodcast.com Also, you can watch it on Rumble or YouTubeutOrderDixon. But make sure you join us on the Tudor Dixon Podcast Podcast and have a blessed day.

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