Posted on 02/21/2023 7:54:40 PM PST by bitt
After all the controversy involving the phone call President Trump made to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2020, there may actually be a crime committed after all.
President Trump lined up a call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021. President Trump had bucketloads of ballot and process issues identified in the state’s 2020 Election.
Raffensperger certified the uncertifiable election of 2020 in Georgia for Joe Biden giving Biden the win by 12,000 votes. However, there were up to a million potential ballot issues with hundreds of thousands of issues identified by multiple experts.
President Trump hired an audit firm to audit the state’s results after the election and he and Georgia Senator and former judge William T. Ligon found hundreds of thousands of issues with the election results that were ignored by Secretary of State Raffensperger.
President Trump made a call to Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, asking Raffensperger to look at some of the items that were uncovered by his auditor. There was plenty of evidence for a man of integrity to know that the election was uncertifiable.
Instead of responding to President Trump’s issues as promised during the call, Raffensperger and his team taped the call without announcing that it was being taped and shared pieces of the call with the Washington Post.
Recently, the Never-Trumper Fulton County DA, Fanni Willis, put together a grand jury to look into the call to see if there were any crimes committed related to the call. Unfortunately for Willis, the case ended up being a “nothingburger“.
Willis brought in 75 witnesses over a 7-month period and found nothing. President Trump did nothing wrong. He had a duty to look into the uncertifiable results in Georgia and determine how best to address the results there.
After all this time and money spent, it is odd that one question never was asked of any of the witnesses in the grand jury. Who taped the call of President Trump and was it legal?
Georgia is a one-party consent state. This means that in Georgia, you are legally allowed to record a conversation if you are a contributor, or with prior consent from one of the involved parties. This would suggest that it was ok for Raffensperger and his team to secretly record the call with President Trump.
However, Florida is a two-party consent state.
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