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kpete

(72,901 posts)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:41 PM Jan 2021

It wasn't just Trump pressuring Raffensperger. Here's what Mark Meadows had to say on the call:

Last edited Sun Jan 3, 2021, 05:38 PM - Edit history (2)

Among the people on the call were Raffensperger, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several aides and attorneys, including Washington lawyer Cleta Mitchell. Seeking to defuse the tension, Meadows urged Georgia officials “in the spirit of cooperation and compromise” to find a path forward that doesn’t involve the court system.

“We don’t agree that you have one, Raffensperger responded.


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It wasn't just Trump pressuring Raffensperger. Here's what Mark Meadows had to say on the call: (Original Post) kpete Jan 2021 OP
In other words, do it off the books dalton99a Jan 2021 #1
Exactly! Whoa! MerryBlooms Jan 2021 #20
Here it is in all it's glory. Tommymac Jan 2021 #22
Thank you so much! MerryBlooms Jan 2021 #26
+1. dalton99a Jan 2021 #28
Meadows is no better than Trump. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #2
There's no way he would last over a week if he didn't do Boomerproud Jan 2021 #6
That is why he works for Trump ETTD Bev54 Jan 2021 #8
He sucked the soul out of Meadows that is for sure. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #11
I am glad you added the last part Bev54 Jan 2021 #12
About Meadows ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #21
So there IS more to the tape ... dweller Jan 2021 #3
I'm betting there are more tapes spinbaby Jan 2021 #9
I'm hoping dweller Jan 2021 #10
There is no lack of probable cause, reasonable suspicion... nt BrightKnight Jan 2021 #15
Any one who talks to Trump and does not tape it, is very foolish. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #13
Not even his lawyers would meet or talk with him alone. They always had a witness judesedit Jan 2021 #32
Exactly. nt Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #34
So... A conspiracy to commit election fraud and extortion then. RockRaven Jan 2021 #4
If they behaved like this on this call MoonlitKnight Jan 2021 #5
Exactly, how many "perfect calls" have they made? Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #14
Just don't know what to say. Biophilic Jan 2021 #7
I was thinking, the eventual "Trump" movies and tv series are going to be must see media. Blue_true Jan 2021 #36
Not going to watch those movies etc. Biophilic Jan 2021 #39
Kafka would call Bullshit aka-chmeee Jan 2021 #37
Good grief. It's true. Biophilic Jan 2021 #38
Upon studying my response, aka-chmeee Jan 2021 #40
No, I think I understood you. Biophilic Jan 2021 #41
The results of states won by Trump twodogsbarking Jan 2021 #16
So did Mitch McConnell really win or was a call made to the Kentucky SOS? Inquiring minds want to LiberalArkie Jan 2021 #18
So in the spirit of cooperation: Accept the results already! Geez Cozmo Jan 2021 #17
Meadows, another f'ing traitor. c-rational Jan 2021 #19
Cleeta Deatherage Mitchell lillypaddle Jan 2021 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author dameatball Jan 2021 #31
Wow. Interesting info there. I guess we all know someone from back then who changed a lot. dameatball Jan 2021 #33
Makes you wonder what sorts of betrayal are on Trump's secret server. badboy67 Jan 2021 #24
I hope they don't forget Lindsey Graham when the indictments get handed out. Baitball Blogger Jan 2021 #25
Lindsey dempls Jan 2021 #30
A path forward that doesn't involve the court system gratuitous Jan 2021 #27
you mean THIS Mark Meadows? shocked! IcyPeas Jan 2021 #29
Raffensberger with the swift kick to the nuts! "We dont believe that you have one" oldsoftie Jan 2021 #35
Kick Demovictory9 Jan 2021 #42

MerryBlooms

(12,236 posts)
20. Exactly! Whoa!
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 06:27 PM
Jan 2021

I wonder how much feces will hit the turbine on Monday. I hope the full call is released!

Irish_Dem

(81,115 posts)
2. Meadows is no better than Trump.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:45 PM
Jan 2021

The President's Chief of Staff is supposed to help his boss make good decisions.
Not egg him on to commit illegal behavior.

"In the spirit of cooperation" break some federal and state laws.
And circumvent the democratic voting process.

Irish_Dem

(81,115 posts)
11. He sucked the soul out of Meadows that is for sure.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:57 PM
Jan 2021

If Meadows had a soul to begin with, that is.

ProfessorGAC

(76,620 posts)
21. About Meadows
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 06:34 PM
Jan 2021

Did they really think the fix was in, and really are shocked they lost?
At the risk of a CT, why would Meadows give up his seat in Congress to take this job for 10 months?
Did he think he'd be there for years? I can't see any motivation for giving up what could be a career of federal power for 10 months on this one temporary job?

dweller

(28,353 posts)
3. So there IS more to the tape ...
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:45 PM
Jan 2021

WAPO is going to bleed fatnixon with 1000 cuts

✌🏻

Irish_Dem

(81,115 posts)
13. Any one who talks to Trump and does not tape it, is very foolish.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 05:07 PM
Jan 2021

Trump will throw anyone under the bus.
Need the protection of tapes.

MoonlitKnight

(1,585 posts)
5. If they behaved like this on this call
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:48 PM
Jan 2021

They certainly did so on others. Just like the Ukraine call.

Impeachment now so he can never run for federal office ever again.

Biophilic

(6,535 posts)
7. Just don't know what to say.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 04:50 PM
Jan 2021

I thought it was bad enough when I imagined the call was just Trump. I should have known there would be others, but the White House Chief of Staff and several aides and attorneys were willing to put their name to this criminal behavior? What do you say to that? Have I just F***ing lived too long? This makes Nixon look like a choir boy who got caught hiding a cigarette.

Please, just come up with 11,750 votes for me. Especially when I think I read someplace else that it was 1,000 votes short. These people have been "running" the government for 4 years? This is a really, really bad TV show from the 70s.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
36. I was thinking, the eventual "Trump" movies and tv series are going to be must see media.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 07:53 PM
Jan 2021

That dude is as corrupt as anyone that I have ever seen. He does make Nixon look like a choirboy.

Biophilic

(6,535 posts)
39. Not going to watch those movies etc.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 09:10 PM
Jan 2021

If I live through this I'll be glad to simply not be anxious and angry all the time. At least Nixon did a few worthwhile things. This just gets worse and worse.

aka-chmeee

(1,226 posts)
40. Upon studying my response,
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 09:49 PM
Jan 2021

I will agree I was not real clear, but the comment was meant to imagine Franz Kafka's response if he was to see the TV program you mentioned.

Biophilic

(6,535 posts)
41. No, I think I understood you.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:46 PM
Jan 2021

Kafka would throw his hands up and say "Bullshit" because what was being presented on TV, or in our case, in real life, was bullshit. Too, too weird to be real, ever. But, unfortunately, for us it is just too real.

LiberalArkie

(19,754 posts)
18. So did Mitch McConnell really win or was a call made to the Kentucky SOS? Inquiring minds want to
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 06:20 PM
Jan 2021

know.

lillypaddle

(9,606 posts)
23. Cleeta Deatherage Mitchell
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 06:43 PM
Jan 2021

the conservative repub lawyer on the call (or one of them), is from Oklahoma City. I originally knew her as one of the founding members of the OKC chapter of NOW in the early 1970s. How far she has fallen.

Response to lillypaddle (Reply #23)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
27. A path forward that doesn't involve the court system
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 07:00 PM
Jan 2021

Translation: Judges keep asking for testimony and evidence, and we ain't got none. We need someone to just flat steal a state. Are you up for this, or you another one of those nervous nellies who's too skeered to break the law because you might get in trouble?

IcyPeas

(25,423 posts)
29. you mean THIS Mark Meadows? shocked!
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 07:12 PM
Jan 2021
The same Meadows who tried to hide WH COVID cases. The same Meadows who convinced Trump that a mask mandate was a bad idea. The same Meadows who defied state guidelines and threw a 70 person, maskless, indoor wedding for his daughter.
...

The same Mark Meadows from the #TrumpTapes who campaigned for re-election (R-NC) to “send Obama back to Kenya.”






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