Joyce Vance: There has to be a full federal investigation of Trump call to Raffensperger

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

There has to be a full fed’l investigation & accountability. Truth matters: @wapo has a recording of the conversation where “Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act & threatened him with vague criminal consequences”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

[democrank]

1. No bottom to Trump's abuse of power

[LisaL]

2. That's what they need to form the commission for.

Since they want one so bad.

[KPN]

14. Definitely!

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. now that's what I call an impeachable offense - if not a quick relocation to the slammer. forever.

[underpants]

4. It was a beautiful call. Some people are saying it was perfect.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yep

Exactly.

No difference, really.

[malaise]

12. Insanity on steroids

Damn this man is both evil and crazy

[Warpy]

33. Judge for yourself, part of it is at the WaPo

Go ahead, take one for the team, you won't regret it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-berates-ga-secretary-of-state-urges-him-to-find-votes/2021/01/03/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7_video.html

Raffensberger sounds like he won't be a Republican for long unless they repudiate Dumdum and all his supporters.

[underpants]

34. I've listened to it

They were awfully polite to him

As I’ve asked elsewhere and really they could have asked him - So let’s say you get Georgia, then what? You still lose.

[Warpy]

37. Dumdum thinks he needs only that first state to throw the whole thing into chaos

by proving the system was rigged against him. This is what malignant narcissists do. He knows damned full well he lost, he's just desperate to prove it wasn't his fault.

Whether or not it puts him into prison is moot. I think he's got enough money to delay everything long enough to shuffle off this mortal coil first. His kids are going to be unhappy about that, it will cost their inheritance.

[lindysalsagal]

5. The "investigation" will only take an hour. Deciding how to prosecute may take longer

but the evidence is all there, and the idiot is bragging about it publicly.

[Pantagruel]

7. How else do you interpret

the POTUS asking the Ga. SOS to just "find us 11,780 votes" ?

[RVN VET71]

26. Or you will go to jail if you don't do what I ask -- don't forget the threat.

But I do not expect anything will be done about this. Biden/Harris will be politically advised to let it go and to let New York take care of Trump. That would be very dubious advice at best. But that’s the way I think it’s going to go down.

I mean Trump once said, publicly, that he’d not lose a single vote if he shot someone dead in broad daylight on 5th Avenue, and people laughed. But he’s killed 350,000 Americans just as brazenly and look at the price he’s paying for that genocide -- in full and agonizing public view -- namely zero.

Ain’t nuthin’ gonna happen. Not by the Federal Government, anyway.

[Windy City Charlie]

28. The way I see it

He's asking for someone to commit fraud.

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. But he did it so perfectly.

[Frustratedlady]

9. Trump doesn't want to remain in power, he's just terrified of the power of the SDNY courts.

He's backed in a corner and can't figure out how to avoid prison except through mob techniques/threats.

I've seen worms being threaded on a hook that wiggled less than he is now.

[Cozmo]

10. Reminds me of the "perfect" Zelensky call

[Canoe52]

36. I bet if you played them side by side they'd be almost identical.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. What date did this happen?

[Liberal In Texas]

15. Yesterday.

[malaise]

16. Yesterday

In a one-hour phone call on Saturday with Georgia election officials, President Trump insisted he won the state and threatened vague legal consequences if the officials did not act. These are excerpts from the call.

‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-berates-ga-secretary-of-state-urges-him-to-find-votes/2021/01/03/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7_video.html

[KPN]

17. January 2, 2021 according to WA Post.

[highplainsdem]

19. Yesterday. Trump lied about the call in a tweet this morning and Raffensperger told him he was lying

in a tweet a few hours ago and said that "the truth will come out."

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Shit.

If this doesn't put Trump over the edge, showing criminal intent, nothing will.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

41. This fucker is still giving respect to Trump.

That's how it all got this far.

[BarbD]

13. Public hearings are needed to shine light on this corruption.

[Duppers]

25. +1000000

[iluvtennis]

27. +1,000,001. nt

[ClusterFreak]

18. What about Hillary's emails????

[KPN]

20. Oh, not to worry, those will be coming up if not by

January 7, then January 21 ... along with Ukraine.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. I'm sure this isn't the only haranguing phone call he's been making.

He isn't doing his job, he's spending all his time trying to force state officials to overthrow the election.

[spanone]

23. How is this not the ultimate abuse of power? WTF will it take?

[Paladin]

24. Are we just going to let this thug WALK on this?

If he's a good little boy and ends up vacating the White House, will there be no consequences for this goon-like behavior? There are literally no depths to which trump won't sink---and this time the press has the tape. Is there no penalty, no justice? Quite frankly, I think he'll just get away with it, yet again.

[gademocrat7]

29. Unrepentant criminal

He must be held accountable for his despicable behavior.

[iluvtennis]

30. Then Lindsey Graham stepped in...

Link to tweet

[pansypoo53219]

31. thank god the fake preznit lost.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

32. Investigations??...

It’s all recorded.
Nothings going to happen except we the people are pissed, disappointment next.

[Cha]

35. Rt TY!

[Kitchari]

38. K&R n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

39. Imagine how many calls just like this one, happen EVERY DAY. Mob Boss.

[BobTheSubgenius]

40. What's to investigate?

It appears to be a very self-contained, complete and self-explanatory "case" already. What is an investigation going to tell anyone about it?

Unless there is more going on outside of this call, but connected to it.

[Blue Owl]

42. K&R