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49/ More threats: Trump, hours from heading to Georgia to speak to its voters—during which rally Raffensperger and the Georgia GOP know Trump can deep-six Loeffler and Perdue—says "It's going to have a big impact on Tuesday if you guys don't get this thing straightened out fast."
50/ The same lawyer who tried belatedly to declare this a "compromise or settlement" conference now reenters the conversation, with five minutes left, to say Trump's campaign just wants to see data to "validate or invalidate" its accuracy. But that's *not* what the call has been.
NOTE/ Trump ends with his most direct threat to Raffensperger and the most direct draw on his power and authority. "I only ran against [Stacey Abrams] once, and that was with a guy named Brian Kemp. And I beat her. And if I didn't run [for POTUS] Brian wouldn't have had a shot...
NOTE2/ "...either in the general or the primary. He was dead—dead as a doornail. He never thought he had a shot at either one of them. What a schmuck I was [to endorse him]. But that's the way it is." He adds "I think we should come to a resolution of this before the election..."
NOTE3/ "...because otherwise you're going to have people just not voting. They don't want to vote. They hate the state, they hate the governor, and they hate the secretary of state. I will tell you that *right now*. And the only people that like you are people that will never..."
NOTE4/ "...vote for you—you know that, Brad, right? They like you. They [Democrats] can't believe what they've found [in you]. They want more people like you." It's a clear threat never to endorse him. Trump ends with—maybe in response to a lawyer's note—"We just want the truth."
NOTE5/ Trump then contradicts what he just said about only "wanting the truth"—a CYA against fraud charges, extortion charges, or worse—saying, because he can't help himself: "I won by 400,000 votes at least...but we don't need 400,000 votes. We need less than 2,000 [sic] votes."
CONCLUSION/ This phone call was a crime. And the people on the Trump campaign side of the call knew it was a crime. Any investigator or prosecutor who pursues this case will conclude that it is a crime. The powerful must be subject to our rule of law just like everyone else. /end
