Yes, Trump did perssure Raffensperger to check on the dead voting because it was known that many dead were voted.
It’s not a crime. He was asking, not demanding/commanding.
I can call the IRS and ask them to check on some mistakes on my taxes. It’s not a crime to ask. They can’t say I threatened them if they didn’t correct the mistakes I was informed about.
So yeah, this is politically motivated. Any sane reasonable person, including former Democrats, all who listened to the FULL phone call, would have to agree there’s no there there.
The Trump Team had to put out the FULL phone call because Raffensperger put out selected quips trying to show Trump was a bad boy. No, he was well within his rights to ask for Raffensperger to look into it.
Raffensperger will be held accountable along with the other fake Republican scum in GA. They can smirk and play coy for now, they won’t be in the near future.
Right. Asking a question on vote fraud possibilities is now informally illegal, with genuine punishment.
Like questioning Mao or Stalin’s decisions. Don’t go there.
> Yes, Trump did perssure Raffensperger to check on the dead voting because it was known that many dead were voted.
Trump also made a personal phone call to a GA elections investigator imploring her to find the fraud, telling her she would be lauded as a hero if she did. Mind you, this was not an elected official, just some state employee.
> It’s not a crime. He was asking, not demanding/commanding.
Well, he asked Raffensperger to find more votes and he intimated that not doing so would amount to a “criminal offense” and would be a “big risk” (legally) to Raffensperger and his lawyer. Coming from the POTUS, this goes a good deal beyond just a friendly and polite ask.
But regardless of whether it was legal or not, Trump’s attempts to influence the elections investigation in GA, either by intimidation or charm, certainly is sketchy as hell for anyone willing to look at it objectively. If any Democrat president did anything like this people here on FR would be screaming for investigations and/or calling for summary executions.