Jeebus what are we supposed to do in a country where the top official, the president, is strong-arming every official he can get on the phone and on this call 300 of them? I am still unsure where criminality begins, but how CAN this be legal? When HE is on the ballot, for him to be even talking to these people seems like election tampering. When he is actually ON THE CALL and exhorting them to flip or invalidate the results, can’t that be considered cut-n-dried violation of State and Federal election law? No matter how much the Rs try to shield and insulate Chump by saying it was Giuliani, it was Eastman, it was Bannon, it was the Proud Boys, it was the Stop The Steal organizers…isn’t this a smoking gun directly in Chump’s hand?
ETA:
The Political Coercion Act 18 USC 610
" It shall be unlawful for any person to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, any employee of the Federal Government as defined in section 7322(1) of title 5, United States Code , to engage in, or not to engage in, any political activity, including, but not limited to, voting or refusing to vote for any candidate or measure in any election, making or refusing to make any political contribution, or working or refusing to work on behalf of any candidate. Any person who violates this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
I understand that statute appears to be aimed at pressuring Fed Govt. but I would think state’s have similar laws. And in this case these are Fed Govt. officials DOING the pressuring. Along with the GA calls to Raffensperger, the GA US Attorney, etc. each of these states like MI, PA, WI adds up to a trampling of this statute.