Threats & Leaks: New Documents Show Just How Crazy the Georgia Recount Fiasco Got

[Zorro]

While the Georgia secretary of state’s office was fending off calls from then-President Donald Trump to find votes, officials were also dealing with bomb threats.

Back in January 2021, as then-President Donald Trump was calling on Georgia election officials to “find 11,780 votes,” new documents show that the secretary of state’s office in Georgia was in full crisis mode.

There were death threats ​​promising to “make the Boston bombings look like child’s play.” Impassioned pleas for Georgia’s top elections official to stand firm in the face of pressure from Trump to break the law. And an alarmed state official demanding an immediate investigation into Donald Trump’s “solicitation to commit election fraud.”

In the chaotic weeks following the 2020 election, Trump was in the midst of a full-scale effort to delegitimize Georgia ballot totals, calling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “an enemy of the people” and sending a team of advisers to convince state legislators to decertify the results of a recount that just barely put Joe Biden ahead.

Emails between state elections officials show the tense moments on the first weekend of January 2021, when Trump called Raffensperger and squeezed him to “find” enough votes to tip the state in his favor—a call that was recorded and almost immediately leaked to The Washington Post.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-documents-show-internal-discord-during-georgia-recount-fiasco

[leftieNanner]

1. Is Fani Willis still working on this?

I haven't heard any more about it in several months.

[CrispyQ]

2. Here's a story I finally found.

Why the investigation into Trump’s alleged misdeeds may be in trouble
A backlog of cases in the Atlanta area may jeopardize an investigation into former President Donald Trump
By BRETT BACHMAN
PUBLISHED JULY 24, 2021 12:57PM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/24/why-the-investigation-into-trumps-alleged-misdeeds-may-be-in-trouble/

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A spike in violent crime in the Atlanta area may jeopardize one of the strongest investigations into former President Donald Trump's alleged misdeeds, as the local district attorney struggles to both probe the former commander-in-chief and tackle an "historic" backlog in cases that grows by the day.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis has for months dedicated significant resources to investigating Trump for his pressure campaign on Georgia officials to overturn the state's 2020 election results. She is reportedly focusing her attention in particular on Trump's interactions with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who at one point was asked to "find" enough votes to overturn the former president's loss in the state.

But just as that investigation heated up, a backlog of more workaday cases under Willis' jurisdiction has grown to more than 12,000, according to a report from Insider, citing public comments and interviews with former associates of Willis. Much of this backlog stems from rising violent crime and state-mandated court closures due to COVID-19.

Though some resources are incoming in the form of relief money, that cash comes with stringent restrictions — leaving the future of her investigation into the former president in limbo.

So she's lacking resources. Hello, DOJ?

[Karadeniz]

3. Why are the malefactors not charged by now? There's enough evidence.

Oh...another post just came in. Okay, if GA can't fit the case into their schedule, how about DoJ taking it over?

[yankee87]

4. Expect worse in 2024

Thankfully 45 did not have the brains, nor the temperament to pull this off. When, not if, but when this happens in 24, it's going to be more coordinated, and maybe successful.

[magicarpet]

5. The fascist legislatures in ReThug states have embedded themselves into the counting rooms,...

.... where the votes are tabulated. This will assure that the final vote count comes out in their favor.

They know they can't win elections so they have plans to just steal them at the convenient moment when no one is looking their way.

[Claire Oh Nette]

6. It reads like bad gangster drama

Can we not RICO tfg and all his maga quislings?