Posted on 01/05/2021 4:53:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA - President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to overturn the 2020 election results - laid out in stark detail in an hourlong weekend phone call with a Georgia election official - are demonstrating his unrestrained determination to maintain a grip on power no matter the consequences for the nation’s democratic traditions.
Trump has ventured into uncharted and dangerous territory since his Nov. 3 defeat, becoming the first president who lost an election to try to hang onto his office by rejecting the will of the voters and casting aside results of the Electoral College enshrined in the Constitution.
Trump’s refusal to concede, undermining the democratic tradition of a peaceful transfer of power and hindering the transition to a Biden administration, is particularly risky for the nation when it is grappling with a surging pandemic that has killed more than 350,000 Americans. Paying little heed to the virus in recent weeks, the president has largely abdicated day-to-day governing to instead focus on his efforts to cling to power.
On the phone call, Trump peddled anew conspiracy theories, disinformation and outright lies, insisting that he won Georgia despite multiple recounts that show the contrary. He repeatedly argued that Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, could change the certified results.
Audio snippets of the conversation were first posted online by The Washington Post. The AP obtained the full audio of Trump’s conversation with Georgia officials from a person on the call. The AP has a policy of not amplifying disinformation and unproven allegations. It annotated a transcript of the call with fact check material.
Various election officials across the country and Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the election. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia have also vouched for the integrity of their state elections.
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The gaslight media speaks.
Don’t need to read this tripe, don’t want to read this BS..
This article is absolutely Orwellian. Down is up, up is down. Undoubtedly, the AP is the harbinger of fascism.
Little Jonathan and his sister Kate. The MORON sisters and Hop Sing Xiden supporters.
asshole-ciated depressed the commie socialist globalists friend
Power grab. They always accuse Trump of what they are doing themselves.
Propagandist. Tar. Feathers. Rope.
the entire fake mantra in one article. naturally, it took more than Lemire & Brumback. even Freking Kevin joined in:
Lemire reported from New York. Associated Press writers Jeff Amy in Atlanta, Kevin Freking in Dalton, Georgia, and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.
PBS bio: Jonathan Lemire is a White House reporter for The Associated Press and a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News...Before joining the AP in 2013, he spent more than a decade at the New York Daily News...He graduated from Columbia University.
Russia, Russia, Russia!
AP sounds more like DU each day that passes.
Trump demanded the SoS give him the votes the data scientists showed were stolen from him.
Georgia data reveals 30,000+ Trump votes removed, another 12,173 switched to Biden: Data scientists
https://youtu.be/IKiyAy9vjrk
What is wrong with demanding that which has been stolen from you?
A pox on the Eh? Pee!
ESAD AP
The steal is on in GA. Warnock and Ossouf are going to win with stupidly high and impossible margins.
The AP is a domestic enemy and must be exterminated in it’s lair and all across America.
The AP is people
Freedom to speak does not extend to freedom to destroy America
Russia Russia Russia will be forgotten by this time next year, when Biden and Harris are wheeling and dealing with Putin.
The BHN is a yankee carpet bagger and domestic enemy
Another example... “Woke” despots don’t care if you believe their lies... only that you obediently assert them true. Then you are controlled and conquered... your free will hollowed out. The more you obey and repeat, the more absurd the lies become to test your continued obedience. The god of “Woke” is a cruel, fearful and merciless master! No one is allowed to relax... what was “woke” yesterday can get you “cancelled” tomorrow!
No absurd lie more demanded we obediently assert as true... than “this was a free and fair election... no evidence of fraud.” Repeat or be “cancelled!” Even the “Wokers” live in constant fear of being devoured by this demon they created! #SatanSmiles!
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