Trump Tries To Get Georgia To Illegally "Find" Votes (UPDATED)

What a desperate, criminal banana Republican:

President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.

The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”

Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.

Trump dismissed their arguments.

“The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry,” he said. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.”

Raffensperger responded: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong.”

At another point, Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.” (our emphasis)

How stupid, deranged and deluded do you have to be to ask Georgia officials to brazenly alter the recounted and certified numbers in order to change election results at this point?  And, if that's not suborning election fraud, we'd like to know what is.  That's Mango Mussolini falling back on his "do us a favor" crime family boss persona.

To reiterate, the "people" (the Red Hat cultists) are "angry" because they've been lied to by Mango Mussolini and his party of rats about the results of a free and fair election THAT MANGO MUSSOLINI LOST.  

The rotted- out Republican Party owns this, every bit of this, and every one of them.

UPDATE:  Here's the full audio of the call.

UPDATE II:  Sen. Durbin says Trump's call merits "criminal investigation."

Lindsey Graham: Toss Legally Cast Ballots In Georgia (UPDATED)

Looks like power remora and unprincipled hack Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham (R-SuCk) has been working hard trying to steal Georgia for his mentor:

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who he said questioned the validity of legally cast absentee ballots, in an effort to reverse President Trump’s narrow loss in the state. [snip]

In the interview, Raffensperger also said he spoke on Friday to Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has echoed Trump’s unfounded claims about voting irregularities.

In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state’s signature-matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger said.

Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn’t have the power to do what Graham suggested because counties administer elections in Georgia.

“It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,” Raffensperger said.

Twitter reacts so we don't have to:

 

Attn: AG Barr

Still searching for evidence of attempts to interfere with election? Appears that Senator Lindsey Graham should be investigated immediately. https://t.co/V1Q23G2NSY

— Kristen Clarke 866-OUR-VOTE (@KristenClarkeJD) November 16, 2020

 

Some might call this… election fraud. https://t.co/sB1r7QTzmv

— Amy Spitalnick (@amyspitalnick) November 16, 2020

 

Lindsey Graham is now begging election officials to turn our country into a sham democracy resembling Russia's. And he's far from alone in the GOP https://t.co/zt6WKKgpZ2

— David Nir (@DavidNir) November 16, 2020

 

Indeed I am👇

"Marc Elias, a top attorney for the Democratic Party who has spent decades defending voting rights, is calling on the Ethics Committee to investigate Senator Lindsey Graham."https://t.co/fBYRfCFpxS

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 17, 2020

 

If Bill Barr were not the Attorney General, the report that Graham pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to discard legally cast votes would prompt an intensive investigation. Until we have a new Attorney General, the job of investigating falls to the Senate ethics committee.

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 17, 2020

 

This is what we in the legal world call a felony. https://t.co/GQry7GO2fl

— Andrew Weissmann (@AWeissmann_) November 16, 2020

 

Being a professional weasel, likely nothing of any significance will happen to Graham as a result of this -- except, perhaps, it backfiring on Georgia Republicans in the coming Senate runoffs.  It's a thin reed, but we'll hold on to it.

In the meantime, you can help Stacy Abrams make it a Fair Fight and flip those two Republican seats!

UPDATE: 

 

Two phone calls. Witnesses. https://t.co/mUyalCFGq1 pic.twitter.com/L77DXKpLCR

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 17, 2020

 

UPDATE II:

Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC just told a group of reporters in the capitol that he’s also spoken to Secretaries of State in Nevada and Arizona. This is in addition to the sos in Georgia.

He said he’s doing it as a senator who is worried about election integrity. (@pkcapitol asked)

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 17, 2020