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Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia over his attempt to sway the 2020 election there, and that heat is now overlapping with investigations in Congress looking at the former presidents efforts to subvert American democracy.
A criminal investigation into Trumps 2 January call prodding Georgias secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to just find him 11,780 votes to block Joe Bidens win in the state is making headway. The Georgia district attorney running the inquiry is now also sharing information with the House committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.
Meanwhile, a justice department taskforce investigating threats to election officials nationwide has launched inquiries in Georgia, where election officers and workers received death threats or warnings of violence, including some after Trump singled out one official publicly for not backing his baseless fraud claims.
Despite these investigations, Trump is still pushing bogus fraud claims in Georgia. Trump wrote to Raffensperger in September asking him to decertify the election results, which is impossible, and with an eye on the 2022 elections is trying to oust Raffensperger, as well as the states governor, Brian Kemp, and other top Republicans who defied his demands to block Bidens win.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/criminal-inquiry-into-trumps-georgia-election-interference-gathers-steam/ar-AAP9Bjl
malaise
(268,998 posts)for good - that is all
KPN
(15,645 posts)Fing audio tape recording of him pressuring Raffensbeger for crying out loud.
We got to stop treading lightly for fear of prolonging the divide or permanently dividing the nation the right is going to intensify and prolong the divide regardless anyway. The only control or influence we have over them is to squash enough of them so that the rest slither back under the rocks and litter from whence the came. Doing anything less only buoys and emboldens them.
malaise
(268,998 posts)Lock him up!
Was the U.S. attorney for the norther district of Georgia. He abruptly resigned the day after a trump initiated phone call.
I want to hear his testimony re what trump asked him to do.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Because the evidence is already right there in the docket. So it becomes a game of lawyers. If the defence can find a loophole, or precedence, or even argue that there is no precedence so it falls into a "can't prosecute a sitting President" or argue that for "national security" reasons it should be thrown out because it would, as you say be "dividing the nation".
And why isn't Lindsey also looked into? There was a clearly heard phone call from him too about "finding votes".
ShazzieB
(16,396 posts)that Lindsey is NOT being looked into?
J/K, I'm sure you don't. Neither do I. But that doesn't necessarily mean he isn't, and I don't think we should assume that our personal lack of knowledge means anything either way, about Lindsey or anyone else being under investigation.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)When is that going to happen?
unc70
(6,114 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)erronis
(15,257 posts)Just like bin Laden. (May they both rest in peace and consumed by sea creatures.)
Hard to worship a craven hero whose remains are floating in all the Seven Seas.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Lot of support will fade away
RainCaster
(10,874 posts)KPN
(15,645 posts)looks of things this far, Im not holding my breath.
Thunderbeast
(3,408 posts)MAGATS live on EARTH2.
They have heard the tape with the Georgia officials. DON'T CARE!
Saw the Entertainment Tonight Pussy Grabber tape. DON'T CARE!
Saw him urging people to put bleach and flashlights up their ass. DON'T CARE!
Watched as he pardoned his convicted co-conspirators. DON'T CARE!
Witnessed him praising Putin and trashing his own intelligence agencies. DON'T CARE!
Watched his as politically motivated denial of Covid plaque kills hundreds of thousands. DON'T CARE!
He praised Nazis in Charlottesville. DON'T CARE!
Any negative facts that emerge are conspiratorial lies fomented by George Soros and the Librul coastal elites. It is all racial grievance.
I doubt twelve jurors can be found from EARTH1 that would convict. If he were jailed, his martyrdom would be the guiding theme of American history until he takes his last breath.
Vladamir Putin would continue to celebrate the most successful intelligence operation in history!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)When are they ever going to take off?
Sorry, feeling very pessimistic today.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)(Thanks for the chuckle.)
jpak
(41,758 posts)To Raffensperger.
Yup
PortTack
(32,767 posts)Will the gqp gov there just pardon tfg?
Mr.Bill
(24,289 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)Kemp may have a tougher fight this time (Im assuming that Stacey Abrams will run again) because he isnt the Secretary of State and able to throw out voter registrations or delay processing them until after the election as he did last time. Who knows what the current Secretary of State will do, though he did stand up to Trump.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)He changes to threatening the other team and then bullying the scorekeeper. He refuses to believe he will lose when he has any levers of power.
erronis
(15,257 posts)Bayard
(22,071 posts)TFG will be quietly told to shut up and go away for good, or he will be indicted with tons of evidence to back it up.
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)But we all know it would be hard for him to shut up and go away. He loves the adoration from his fanatics.
calimary
(81,265 posts)He will NEVER just shut up and go away.
dchill
(38,492 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 5, 2021, 05:43 PM - Edit history (1)
... sharing information with the House Committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol in
Washington DC.
If they tie Trump trying to strong arm the Georgia Sec. of State into illegally changing the vote to Trumps bloody attempt @ a coup
. they have him on tape telling the attorney for Georgias Sec. of States office because that he needs her to find some votes or
just say, there are questions about the election because in his own words, Something big is gonna happen on January 6th. Then that is conspiracy
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)the coup back in January and is still golfing today. It's a joke.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)File this one under the "Rich and Famous" defense which affords its claimant carte blanche immunity.
A/k/a the "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" defense.
This is the first and most egregious step towards full-blown neofascism. If we let him get away with it, you might as well administer last rites to the USA.