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Fulton County DA’s Anti-Trump ‘Smoking Gun’ Is a Toy Pistol
Daily Signal ^ | Deroy Murdock

Posted on 08/29/2023 6:35:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be drooling.

In a dark day for America, Democrats made President Joe Biden’s chief political rival fly to their stronghold of Atlanta, surrender to law-enforcement officials, and get photographed and fingerprinted like a common criminal.

Consequently, Willis and her fellow Democrats now boast a mugshot of former President of the United States Donald Trump. They will deploy it in campaign ads from now until Armageddon. It probably already inhabits dart boards in the White House and the Democrat National Committee.

The next step in Trump’s persecution will be Willis’ Stalinesque show trial. Exhibit A will be Trump’s allegedly illegal phone call on Jan. 2, 2021. America’s lying left-wing media already have made this conversation notorious.

“In recorded call, Trump pressures Georgia official to ‘find’ votes to overturn election,” Reuters huffed in a headline the next day.

ABC News growled: “Trump demands Georgia secretary of state ‘find’ enough votes to hand him win.”

National Public Radio snarled on June 21, 2022: “Former President Donald Trump famously pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to overturn the state’s presidential election result in a January 2021 phone call that lasted more than an hour.”

Willis, these “news” outlets, and other Trump haters want Americans to believe that Trump told Raffensperger, “I want you to fabricate 11,780 votes,” or less nefariously, “I want you to find me 11,780 votes.”

Trump said no such thing.

According to a Washington Post transcript, his actual words were: “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.”

That comment, Trumpophobes claim, makes him a criminal.

Nice try!

Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and GOP attorneys Cleta Mitchell and Kurt Hilbert begged Raffensperger and two of his colleagues to investigate reported irregularities.

“I believe it’s about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren’t on the voter registration list,” Trump said. “You had 18,325 vacant address voters.”

“You had out-of-state voters,” Trump added. “They voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state, of 4,925.”

Among these and other ballots that Trump & Co. questioned, the former president merely expressed his desire to locate enough valid votes and disqualify enough fraudulent ones to win. Politicians routinely have asked this in countless close races.

This so-called smoking gun is a toy pistol.

Trump made a wish that Team Raffensperger would locate missing ballots, toss bogus votes, and otherwise count correctly. This, Trump hoped, would yield him 11,780 additional ballots—one more than Biden’s margin of victory—and, thus, score him the Peach State.

This was no more a criminal solicitation than my saying “I just want to find $100,000” would direct you, dear reader, to rob a bank and then FedEx me a thousand Benjamins.

To be clear: Please do not do this.

Trump’s words to Raffensperger were legal. They were perfectly ordinary and precisely how trailing contenders petition election authorities.

Indeed, Raffensperger finally agreed that his general counsel, Ryan Germany, “will be in touch with the other attorneys on this call, Mr. Meadows.”

“Trump was entitled as a candidate to ask a Georgia state official to locate votes that he believes were not counted,” Harvard Law School Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in August 16’s Daily Mail. He represented Democrats in the Bush/Gore Florida recount fiasco.

“During the course of our challenges, many tactics similar to those employed in 2020 were attempted,” Dershowitz explained. “Lawyers wrote legal memoranda outlining possible courses of conduct, including proposing a slate of alternate electors, who would deliver our preferred election results to Congress.”

Dershowitz asked: “But if similar behavior was legal in 2000, how could it be illegal in 2023?”

This bedbug-infested mess confirms that Fani Willis and the rest of the Get Trump gang have turned normal political speech into the criminal persecution of Donald Trump.

The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: crooked; dirtycop; faniwillis; georgia; sorosbacked

1 posted on 08/29/2023 6:35:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

When they fail we should be demanding charges be brought against them - pure election interference, abuse of power, etc..


2 posted on 08/29/2023 6:41:10 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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“We must strip her of all funding and, if appropriate, impeach Fani Willis,”
Colton Moore, vice chairman of Georgia Freedom Caucus, said in a statement.

“America is under attack,” Moore wrote on X. “I’m not going to sit back
and watch as radical left prosecutors politically TARGET their opponents.”

A probe into Willis’s prosecution of Trump could lead to her impeachment, Breitbart reported.

Contact Congress
U.S. House of Representatives:
* Telephone: 202-225-3121
* Website: http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate:
* Telephone: 202-224-3121
* Website: http://www.senate.gov/

Message: Republicans control the House
<><>you must issue Willis a Subpoena
<><>and have the Capitol Police serve her
<><>bring her in for a House Committee hearing
<><>then just REMAND HER INTO CUSTODY
<><>while searching her entire Background for a Crime
<><>meanwhile moving forward proceedings to impeach her.


Online form to contact Colton Moore.
https://www.contactmypolitician.com/home/contact-us


3 posted on 08/29/2023 6:44:19 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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FR THREAD---Fani Willis Questioned Election in Her Tweets

Bort posted: This is what lawyers call an “admission by a party opponent.”
(below) Trump’s legal team can admit Fani's statement/tweet into evidence.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 6:50:52 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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A review of Fani Willis’ indictment against Trump reveals the woman actually reads
at third grade level w/ a zero IQ. Her ludicrous, politically motivated charges include:

<><>criminalizing free speech,
<><>listing numerous mundane “acts” she “says” further a “conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election.
<><>criminalizing text asking for phone nos “to chat with state leaders”
<><>Trump’s conversations on election results as a “furtherance” of alleged crimes.
<><>Trump’s tweets constitute a “furtherance” of alleged crimes
<><>Trump conspiring when he asked voters to watch televised GA Legislature hearings.

Upshot: Willis would give Democrats a monopoly on election results conversations.

Reality Check

In 2017, a woman sued conservative actor, James Woods, for misidentifying her as a Nazi in an allegedly libelous tweet. The tweet included a photo not of her but of a different woman giving a Nazi salute while wearing a Donald Trump t-shirt at a campaign event.

The court ruled in favor of Woods under the “innocent construction rule.”
She appealed, but the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the ruling.

The “innocent construction rule” requires courts to consider a written or oral statement in context, giving the words, and their implications, their natural and obvious meaning.

If a statement may reasonably be interpreted innocently, it cannot be actionable per se. [Republic Tobacco Co. v. N. Atl. Trading Co., 381 F.3d 717, 726-727 (7th Cir. Ill. 2004)


5 posted on 08/29/2023 6:51:21 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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In another of her sophomoric tweets challenging the 2020 election, braindead
Fani agreed with the racist claim “that only white people” were voting.

She then proceeds to remind everyone why she flunked grammar school
math by asserting that whites make up “116 percent” of the voting pool.

We know by her litany of charges against Trump,
she reads at third-grade level (thats with a zero IQ).

It appears she got a law degree on her knees.


6 posted on 08/29/2023 7:04:58 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Red Badger

Defies common sense. The prosecutor would also have us believe that Trump was stupid enough to try to recruit a state official over the phone to commit a crime when: (a) he did not personally know the official; (b) he had reason to suspect that the official was not on his side; and (c) he had no reason to trust him not to record the phone call.


7 posted on 08/29/2023 7:15:09 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Socon-Econ

Never let facts get in the way of a good scam..................


8 posted on 08/29/2023 7:17:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
"I just want to find 11,000 votes"

That can be seen as a desire, not a direct command, or request.

However, when he later said on the call "Just say you recalculated" that's a little harder to explain.

Sure, others contested elections, even in court. But did any call the Secretary of State and make requests like this? He knew Kemp and Rattburger didn't like him anyway, what did he expect would happen?

9 posted on 08/29/2023 7:30:51 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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To: Red Badger

“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be drooling.”

Yeah, at an all you can eat buffet.


10 posted on 08/29/2023 7:38:05 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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“Trump was entitled as a candidate to ask a Georgia state official to locate votes that he believes were not counted,” Harvard Law School Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in August 16’s Daily Mail.

DERSH THEN: He represented Democrats in the Bush/Gore Florida recount fiasco.
<><>Aproposthe challenges, many tactics similar to those employed in 2020 were attempted.
<><>Lawyers wrote legal memoranda outlining possible courses of conduct,
<><> even proposing a slate of alternate electors, to deliver our preferred election results to Congress.”

DERSH NOW: “But if similar behavior was legal in 2000, how could it be illegal in 2023?”


This 2023 mess confirms that Fani Willis and the rest of the Get Trump gang have
turned normal political speech into the criminal persecution of Donald Trump.

Upshot: Willis’ indictment is a brash illegal attempt to give
Democrats a monopoly on political results conversations.


11 posted on 08/29/2023 7:50:35 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: fuzzylogic

“When they fail we should be demanding charges be brought against them - pure election interference, abuse of power, etc..”

Bragg, James, and Willis should each be disbarred, and be forced to pay restitution out of their own pockets to the taxpayers, President Trump, and those associated with Trump that they maliciously targeted.

Let Bragg, James, and Willis along with their families live in abject poverty living in a cardboard box under a bridge eating cockroaches and rats for the rest of their worthless lives.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 7:50:42 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Fani Willis is a black racist. Martin Luther King was arrested 29 times by white racist. We now have a black racist female arresting white people. Somethings never change just a color of their skin dust. She wants to arrest a white guy. She should start with Joe Biden because he dig commit crimes, and he should be in handcuffs.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 8:57:12 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: Golden Eagle

“However, when he later said on the call “Just say you recalculated” that’s a little harder to explain.”
If they had deliberately falsified the count, as many probably believe, then Trump’s call could have frightened them into believing that the game was up, and he was just giving them a way out: they could claim that they had just made an honest mistake, instead of admitting their guilt.


14 posted on 08/29/2023 9:21:57 AM PDT by Mr Information
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To: magua

Fani Willis also arrested and charged Harrison Floyd, a Black Trump supporter, and held him without bail over the weekend. Fani is a slave catcher.


15 posted on 08/29/2023 10:14:24 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Golden Eagle

“But did any call the Secretary of State and make requests like this? He knew Kemp and Rattburger didn’t like him anyway, what did he expect would happen?”

At display, the reasoning of a Democrat/progressive.
C’mon, man!
Who cares about what/who Kemp and ‘Rattbooger’ like? ‘F***’ the feelings; Trump was explicitly drilling down on the malfeasance of the illegal votes. Trump appealed to the “inner American” in the pos SoS. That was his mistake - assuming the SoS identified as an American.


16 posted on 08/29/2023 12:18:58 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Montana_Sam
That was his mistake

Looks like we actually agree. There was no chance Rattburger was going to flip back to Trump. Especially not over a phone call. It doesn’t take hindsight to see that. Thanks.

17 posted on 08/29/2023 12:27:48 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Jesus 2024)
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