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Trump *yesterday* demanded Georgia's secretary of state to concoct nonexistent votes and warned he could be criminally liable if he didn't.
For those who say it's an elaborate fundraising ploy, this story is eye-opening about the president's mental state https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
For those who say it's an elaborate fundraising ploy, this story is eye-opening about the president's mental state https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
The most astonishing part of this story isn't Trump. It's the advisers sitting on the call helping him pressure Raffensperger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
SEEMS IMPORTANT: Georgia has these two statutes on the books:
-Coinspiracy to commit election fraud
-Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud
http://ga.elaws.us/law/21-2%7C15
-Coinspiracy to commit election fraud
-Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud
http://ga.elaws.us/law/21-2%7C15
I'm seeing increasing chatter from legal experts and lawmakers who think that Trump's call with Raffensperger isn't just undemocratic but is likely a violation of Georgia law against soliciting fraud (which would be unpardonable at the federal level)
"I don't think that in the last few days of my term that I would want to be engaging in activities that even remotely subject me to the possibility of state criminal prosecution," Georgia State law professor Anthony Michael Kreis tells me.
NADLER: "In threatening these officials with vague ‘criminal’ consequences, and in encouraging them to ‘find’ additional votes and hire investigators who ‘want to find answers,’ the President may have also subjected himself to additional criminal liability."
MORE: "The president asked, in no uncertain terms, the secretary of state to invent votes..There’s just no way that if you read the [state] code...that he has not violated this law — the spirit of it for sure," said Kreis, the Georgia State law professor. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/trump-georgia-election-454122
Kreis said that legally it's important that Trump asked for Kemp to "find" a specific number of votes — just enough to put him ahead by one. That speaks explicitly to a mindset to subvert the election and lacks the pretense of simply wanting the truth. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/trump-georgia-election-454122
NEW: Trump's pressure campaign against Georgia election officials may have violated federal or state laws, legal experts and some lawmakers say. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/trump-georgia-election-454122
