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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Closest thing to treason...
Date: 08/02/23 10:45 PM
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But it is a crime to call up a state official and demand "find me 11000 votes", or to interfere (or attempt to interfere) in the election process, etc. He's not up on charges for disputing it. He's up on charges for trying to influence/manipulate the results (and/or officials). From what I've seen (I haven't read the complaint, just summaries in the news).

I'm still expecting GA to go after him. They have him on tape asking to find him 11000 votes. That's pretty blatant.


No just that. :)

WAPO: In the Trump case, Willis has said she is focused on the phone calls Trump made to multiple Georgia officials seeking to reverse his defeat, his campaign's efforts to persuade the Georgia legislature to declare Trump the winner, the gathering of Trump's electors to cast electoral college votes for Trump after Joe Biden had been declared the winner in the state, and the Trump campaign's potential involvement in an unauthorized breach of election equipment in rural Coffee County, Ga.

Dozens of people participated in those efforts, according to reams of emails, texts and deposition transcripts from the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack: Trump lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Ray Smith and John Eastman; senior advisers including then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Jeffrey Clark, then a senior official at the Justice Department; and Georgia GOP leaders including the party chairman, David Shafer, and its then finance chairman, Shawn Still...

ME: Hard to prove but: :)

...Trump may have hurt himself, however, in his appearance last month at a town hall broadcast by CNN, during which he explained that he called Raffensperger to tell him, 'You owe me votes because the election was rigged.' Willis could offer the statement as evidence of Trump's intent for Raffensperger to switch votes, several legal experts said.

'Subjects of criminal investigation aren't usually reckless enough to go on national television and admit their corrupt intent,' Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University, wrote on Twitter after the appearance. 'But Donald Trump just handed Fani Willis a new piece of evidence and tied a bow on it.'
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