Bigly, indeed.
Hellbent on trying to delegitimize American democracy, President Trump reportedly made 18 attempts to get Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone, before the now infamous unhinged phone call on Saturday where he attempted to bully the battleground state’s top elections official into overturning the election results. Continue reading “Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call”
With Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading a desperate crusade to undo President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat with a plot to disrupt Congress’ certification of the Electoral College votes on Wednesday, several of his fellow GOP senators have stepped forward to acknowledge that nuking democracy is, in fact, bad.
The U.S. attorney in Atlanta departed his post Monday, TPM has learned, after previously indicating that he would not leave until Inauguration Day.
President Donald Trump, flanked by lawyers and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, intending to wheedle him into “finding” enough Republican votes to overturn the state’s presidential election result.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who publicly backed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) pressure campaign to delegitimize President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, somehow couldn’t get behind President Trump’s attempt at bullying Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into overturning election results, during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning. Continue reading “Blackburn Is Down With Cruz’s Electoral College Scheme. But Not Trump’s GA Bullying.”
David Worley, the lone Democrat on Georgia’s state election board, on Sunday called on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to launch an investigation into President Donald Trump for demanding that the state’s election officials “find” votes to undo his defeat against President-elect Joe Biden.
It was pretty transparently clear that the source of the Trump-Raffensperger recording was Raffensperger and staff lawyer Ryan Germany. But it’s notable that in the follow-on reporting they aren’t being coy about it. They are basically saying, we’d been asked to commit illegal acts in earlier calls. It seemed prudent to record this call. Probably the best way to see this is that the two men decided to wear what amounts to a DIY wire.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is seen as a potential contender for the 2024 presidential race, on Sunday night spoke out against his GOP colleagues’ planned attempt to nullify the Electoral College’s votes when Congress officially seals President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump is poised to award Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), one of his most diehard lackeys in Congress, the Medal of Freedom, according to the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Continue reading “Trump To Award Medal Of Freedom To Hardcore Loyalist Rep. Nunes”
As with the President’s “perfect call” with President Zelensky of Ukraine, the Raffensperger call is so transparent and damning it rather defies commentary. What more is t here to say? The call is reminiscent of descriptions of Trump calls and ploys going back decades. I’ve actually been in calls like this with angry CEOs. One of them I remember most palpably was with a New York richie who’s a pal of the President’s. They’ve been puffed up on affirmations and theories by their yes-men and your job is to listen to them vent and yell.
