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napi21

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 08:14 PM Feb 2021

Georgia investigation opened into Trump's call to overturn election

Georgia election officials opened an investigation Monday into Donald Trump’s phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find” enough votes to reverse the outcome of the presidential contest in the state.


The investigation will review Trump’s Jan. 2 call when he pressured Raffensperger to overturn the election, said Walter Jones, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.

Raffensperger, a Republican, has repeatedly said there was no widespread fraud that could have changed the results of the election, which Joe Biden won by less than 12,000 votes in Georgia. He told Trump the “data you have is wrong” as he resisted the president’s false claims that he had won in Georgia.

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The investigation was prompted by a complaint from George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf III, according to a case initiation document provided by the secretary of state’s office.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-investigation-opened-into-trumps-call-to-overturn-election/GQ3WSOLP7VENRG4PVCCRAPMOBI/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1981956

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Georgia investigation opened into Trump's call to overturn election (Original Post) napi21 Feb 2021 OP
TY Sec of State Raffensperger!! Cha Feb 2021 #1
I HOPE their findings geet referred to the AG! DT's payback is comming. He keeps talking about how napi21 Feb 2021 #2

napi21

(45,806 posts)
2. I HOPE their findings geet referred to the AG! DT's payback is comming. He keeps talking about how
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 10:48 PM
Feb 2021

much influence he'os going to have on elections. But I thibnk he's going to be kept ultra busy just trying to stay out of prison! I'd love Ga. to be a part of that, as well as AZ, PA, Wis. & every other State that was harrassed by the orange one.

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