President Donald Trump, flanked by lawyers and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, intending to wheedle him into “finding” enough Republican votes to overturn the state’s presidential election result.
He’ll fail, but in 4 years, I don’t know if we’ll be so lucky
Tony Soprano, Your Elderly Uncle At Thanksgiving
FIFY
To be sure, the lesson the Republicans are likely to learn is that keeping it all in the family and behind closed doors is more effective than open-source bullying.
I wonder about the previous dozen and a half calls. Was Raffensperger lining up witnesses? Getting the recording equipment set up?
Or as Mark Hamill tweeted. It’s like a lost Sopranos episode.
You think he’s actually going to run again in 4 years? I don’t.
No, but someone smarter than him with the same ambition could
He probably thinks (ahem) that he’s going to run again. And he certainly needs to keep the campaign going so that he has cash coming in.
Almost everything Trumpy said in that phone call is just one big fucking lie. No other states are flipping. Georgia counted the votes 3 fucking times and Trumpy lost every single fucking time the votes were counted. Meadows should be arrested and any attorney who was present with Trumpy on the call should have his law license revoked.
Except that professional threats don’t wander off into the woods and rivers and stray into footpaths for an hour. They keep it direct.
This is a China Syndrome Trump rabbit-hole.
The tape and Raffensperger’s responses just show how badly Trump sucks even at being a wanna-be mob boss.
Along with confirming his abject corruption and casual criminality.
He probably does right now. Or for any odd 10 minutes or so. But he has no idea how things are going to change once he’s out of there. And things are going to change.
What they’ve already learned is that they have to do a better job of suppressing the vote. The rush to keep those predisposed to voting Democratic from ever having the opportunity to cast a ballot will be fast and furious, wherever Republicans control the state legislatures.
They’re going to “fix” the problem in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, for sure. Pennsylvania Republicans will also try. Redistricting and gerrymandering predicated on the 2020 Census will be epic.
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I imagine they’re consulting with Tom Delay already.
If this act isn’t a crime, what is? There for all the world to see and yet trying to coerce this official to change Georgia’s votes is possibly not against the law. Oh, puleeze.
Can some intrepid journalist please get a mic in front of Raffensperger’s face and ask the following question: “Knowing what you know now, would you still have voted for Trump on November 3, 2020?”