An
Atlanta-area prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into
efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia in the wake of
two calls then-President Donald Trump placed to state officials, urging
them to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In a letter Wednesday
to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state
officials, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis did not
mention Trump by name but stated that her office is examining a raft of
potential criminal charges related to “attempts to influence” the
administration of the 2020 election in the state.
In early January, Trump pressured
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse
Biden’s victory in the state during an hour-long phone call.
The call was cited by the House in its article of impeachment,
which accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
House impeachment managers have said his call to the Georgia secretary
of state was part of Trump’s long-running attempt to overturn the
results of the 2020 election.
Trump also called the top elections investigator on Raffensperger’s staff shortly before Christmas, asking the person to “find the fraud” and become a “national hero.”
In
an interview with The Washington Post last month, Raffensperger
confirmed that Trump had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not
familiar with the specifics of what the president said in the
conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate
for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.
“That
was an ongoing investigation,” Raffensperger said. “I don’t believe
that an elected official should be involved in that process.”
In
her letter, Willis wrote that her office will examine whether anyone
illegally solicited election fraud, made false statements to state and
local government officials, made threats, or participated in a criminal
conspiracy. Her letter was first reported by the New York Times.
She
asked officials to preserve all records related to the 2020 election.
She said the matter is “of high priority” and will go before a grand
jury as soon as March.
“I
know we all agree that our duty demands that this matter be
investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted, in a manner that is free
from any appearance of conflict of interest or political
considerations,” Willis wrote.
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An
Atlanta-area prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into
efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia in the wake of
two calls then-President Donald Trump placed to state officials, urging
them to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In a letter Wednesday
to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state
officials, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis did not
mention Trump by name but stated that her office is examining a raft of
potential criminal charges related to “attempts to influence” the
administration of the 2020 election in the state.
In early January, Trump pressured
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse
Biden’s victory in the state during an hour-long phone call.
The call was cited by the House in its article of impeachment,
which accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
House impeachment managers have said his call to the Georgia secretary
of state was part of Trump’s long-running attempt to overturn the
results of the 2020 election.
Trump also called the top elections investigator on Raffensperger’s staff shortly before Christmas, asking the person to “find the fraud” and become a “national hero.”
In
an interview with The Washington Post last month, Raffensperger
confirmed that Trump had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not
familiar with the specifics of what the president said in the
conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate
for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.
“That
was an ongoing investigation,” Raffensperger said. “I don’t believe
that an elected official should be involved in that process.”
In
her letter, Willis wrote that her office will examine whether anyone
illegally solicited election fraud, made false statements to state and
local government officials, made threats, or participated in a criminal
conspiracy. Her letter was first reported by the New York Times.
She
asked officials to preserve all records related to the 2020 election.
She said the matter is “of high priority” and will go before a grand
jury as soon as March.
“I
know we all agree that our duty demands that this matter be
investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted, in a manner that is free
from any appearance of conflict of interest or political
considerations,” Willis wrote.
This might be where he gets hurt. The GOP Senators can't get in the way here.
What if Raffensperger had agreed to "find" those votes? If that would have been a crime then tRump's request is a crime.
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An
Atlanta-area prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into
efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia in the wake of
two calls then-President Donald Trump placed to state officials, urging
them to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In a letter Wednesday
to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state
officials, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis did not
mention Trump by name but stated that her office is examining a raft of
potential criminal charges related to “attempts to influence” the
administration of the 2020 election in the state.
In early January, Trump pressured
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse
Biden’s victory in the state during an hour-long phone call.
The call was cited by the House in its article of impeachment,
which accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
House impeachment managers have said his call to the Georgia secretary
of state was part of Trump’s long-running attempt to overturn the
results of the 2020 election.
Trump also called the top elections investigator on Raffensperger’s staff shortly before Christmas, asking the person to “find the fraud” and become a “national hero.”
In
an interview with The Washington Post last month, Raffensperger
confirmed that Trump had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not
familiar with the specifics of what the president said in the
conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate
for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.
“That
was an ongoing investigation,” Raffensperger said. “I don’t believe
that an elected official should be involved in that process.”
In
her letter, Willis wrote that her office will examine whether anyone
illegally solicited election fraud, made false statements to state and
local government officials, made threats, or participated in a criminal
conspiracy. Her letter was first reported by the New York Times.
She
asked officials to preserve all records related to the 2020 election.
She said the matter is “of high priority” and will go before a grand
jury as soon as March.
“I
know we all agree that our duty demands that this matter be
investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted, in a manner that is free
from any appearance of conflict of interest or political
considerations,” Willis wrote.
This might be where he gets hurt. The GOP Senators can't get in the way here.
What if Raffensperger had agreed to "find" those votes? If that would have been a crime then tRump's request is a crime.
"Just tell people you recalculated"
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An
Atlanta-area prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into
efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia in the wake of
two calls then-President Donald Trump placed to state officials, urging
them to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In a letter Wednesday
to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state
officials, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis did not
mention Trump by name but stated that her office is examining a raft of
potential criminal charges related to “attempts to influence” the
administration of the 2020 election in the state.
In early January, Trump pressured
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse
Biden’s victory in the state during an hour-long phone call.
The call was cited by the House in its article of impeachment,
which accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
House impeachment managers have said his call to the Georgia secretary
of state was part of Trump’s long-running attempt to overturn the
results of the 2020 election.
Trump also called the top elections investigator on Raffensperger’s staff shortly before Christmas, asking the person to “find the fraud” and become a “national hero.”
In
an interview with The Washington Post last month, Raffensperger
confirmed that Trump had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not
familiar with the specifics of what the president said in the
conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate
for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.
“That
was an ongoing investigation,” Raffensperger said. “I don’t believe
that an elected official should be involved in that process.”
In
her letter, Willis wrote that her office will examine whether anyone
illegally solicited election fraud, made false statements to state and
local government officials, made threats, or participated in a criminal
conspiracy. Her letter was first reported by the New York Times.
She
asked officials to preserve all records related to the 2020 election.
She said the matter is “of high priority” and will go before a grand
jury as soon as March.
“I
know we all agree that our duty demands that this matter be
investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted, in a manner that is free
from any appearance of conflict of interest or political
considerations,” Willis wrote.
This might be where he gets hurt. The GOP Senators can't get in the way here.
What if Raffensperger had agreed to "find" those votes? If that would have been a crime then tRump's request is a crime.
"Just tell people you recalculated"
its telling though its coming out of Fulton County and not the state . NY AG too....
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Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,272
Donald Trump has destroyed the republican party. Far right extremists want a new Trumpier Patriot party. Reasonable republicans want a more center-right party.
The democrats have a real chance to capitalize right now.
(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.
More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.
The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say.
Evan McMullin, who was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he co-hosted the Zoom call with former officials concerned about Trump’s grip on Republicans and the nativist turn the party has taken.
Three other people confirmed to Reuters the call and the discussions for a potential splinter party, but asked not to be identified.
Among the call participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump; former Republican congressman Charlie Dent; Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump; and Miles Taylor, another former Trump homeland security official.
The talks highlight the wide intraparty rift over Trump’s false claims of election fraud and the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Most Republicans remain fiercely loyal to the former president, but others seek a new direction for the party.
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The House of Representatives impeached Trump on Jan. 13 on a charge of inciting an insurrection by exhorting thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol on the day Congress was gathered to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
Call participants said they were particularly dismayed by the fact that more than half of the Republicans in Congress - eight senators and 139 House representatives - voted to block certification of Biden’s election victory just hours after the Capitol siege.
Most Republican senators have also indicated they will not support the conviction of Trump in this week’s Senate impeachment trial.
“Large portions of the Republican Party are radicalizing and threatening American democracy,” McMullin told Reuters. “The party needs to recommit to truth, reason and founding ideals or there clearly needs to be something new.”
‘THESE LOSERS’
Asked about the discussions for a third party, Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, said: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden.”
A representative for the Republican National Committee referred to a recent statement from Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
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“If we continue to attack each other and focus on attacking on fellow Republicans, if we have disagreements within our party, then we are losing sight of 2022 (elections),” McDaniel said on Fox News last month.
“The only way we’re going to win is if we come together,” she said.
The Biden White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
McMullin said just over 40% of those on last week’s Zoom call backed the idea of a breakaway, national third party. Another option under discussion is to form a “faction” that would operate either inside the current Republican Party or outside it.
Names under consideration for a new party include the Integrity Party and the Center Right Party. If it is decided instead to form a faction, one name under discussion is the Center Right Republicans.
Members are aware that the U.S. political landscape is littered with the remains of previous failed attempts at national third parties.
“But there is a far greater hunger for a new political party out there than I have ever experienced in my lifetime,” one participant said.
Reporting by Tim Reid; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Peter Cooney
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I'm wondering if there could be charges filed on soul-eater by the DOJ for being responsible for a riot and/or damages and the death of the officer. He could be sued by the family who lost their family member, couldn't he?
I'm wondering if there could be charges filed on soul-eater by the DOJ for being responsible for a riot and/or damages and the death of the officer. He could be sued by the family who lost their family member, couldn't he?
I would imagine he could definitely be sued civilly by the families of the victims.
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Isn't there an investigation underway by the city of DC too? I think he could still be criminally charged for that...just add it to the list of his legal problems.
I'm wondering if there could be charges filed on soul-eater by the DOJ for being responsible for a riot and/or damages and the death of the officer. He could be sued by the family who lost their family member, couldn't he?
I would imagine he could definitely be sued civilly by the families of the victims.
That's actually an excellent point. And the burden of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond reasonable doubt. I have to believe this is coming.
I'm wondering if there could be charges filed on soul-eater by the DOJ for being responsible for a riot and/or damages and the death of the officer. He could be sued by the family who lost their family member, couldn't he?
I would imagine he could definitely be sued civilly by the families of the victims.
That's actually an excellent point. And the burden of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond reasonable doubt. I have to believe this is coming.
And the decision wouldn't be corrupted by GOP Senators
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THis guy discusses potential criminal trial coming up...
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There has to be justice for what happened. I'm hanging onto hope.
THis guy discusses potential criminal trial coming up...
I mean, I sure as hell hope so. The defense tried to drag out every instance of a democrat in the last 20 years who said the word fight or objected to an election result, but the managers didn't drag any of those POS Reps or Sens inciteful lying rhetoric. Defense focused on everyone but the president in major attempt at whataboutism while the managers just trotted out the president's own words and how the rioters interpreted them.
It's a hopeless situation...
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He will go through his whole life without facing any consequences for anything he has ever done to anyone!
Yep. The best we can hope for is that history is accurate in how it remembers him (as a total disgrace).
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dude traffics in irony.....
While thanking GOP allies, Trump – who is considering another
presidential run – attacked Democrats by saying "it is a sad commentary
on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to
denigrate the rule of law."
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While thanking GOP allies, Trump – who is considering another
presidential run – attacked Democrats by saying "it is a sad commentary
on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to
denigrate the rule of law."
He and all of his retRUmplicans wouldn't know the rule of law if it was handed to him by Vladimir Putin.
While thanking GOP allies, Trump – who is considering another
presidential run – attacked Democrats by saying "it is a sad commentary
on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to
denigrate the rule of law."
It’s all projection. Every accusation is a confession.
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In wake of Trump calls to state officials, Georgia prosecutors open criminal investigation into efforts to subvert election
An Atlanta-area prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia in the wake of two calls then-President Donald Trump placed to state officials, urging them to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In a letter Wednesday to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state officials, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis did not mention Trump by name but stated that her office is examining a raft of potential criminal charges related to “attempts to influence” the administration of the 2020 election in the state.
In early January, Trump pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to reverse Biden’s victory in the state during an hour-long phone call.
Read: Fulton County district attorney letters to state officials
The call was cited by the House in its article of impeachment, which accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. House impeachment managers have said his call to the Georgia secretary of state was part of Trump’s long-running attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump also called the top elections investigator on Raffensperger’s staff shortly before Christmas, asking the person to “find the fraud” and become a “national hero.”
In an interview with The Washington Post last month, Raffensperger confirmed that Trump had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not familiar with the specifics of what the president said in the conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.
“That was an ongoing investigation,” Raffensperger said. “I don’t believe that an elected official should be involved in that process.”
‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary, hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia election official
In her letter, Willis wrote that her office will examine whether anyone illegally solicited election fraud, made false statements to state and local government officials, made threats, or participated in a criminal conspiracy. Her letter was first reported by the New York Times.
She asked officials to preserve all records related to the 2020 election. She said the matter is “of high priority” and will go before a grand jury as soon as March.
“I know we all agree that our duty demands that this matter be investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted, in a manner that is free from any appearance of conflict of interest or political considerations,” Willis wrote.
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What if Raffensperger had agreed to "find" those votes? If that would have been a crime then tRump's request is a crime.
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"Just tell people you recalculated"
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The democrats have a real chance to capitalize right now.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-party-exclusive/exclusive-dozens-of-former-republican-officials-in-talks-to-form-anti-trump-third-party-idUSKBN2AB07P
Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
By Tim Reid
5 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.
The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.
More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.
The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say.
Evan McMullin, who was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he co-hosted the Zoom call with former officials concerned about Trump’s grip on Republicans and the nativist turn the party has taken.
Three other people confirmed to Reuters the call and the discussions for a potential splinter party, but asked not to be identified.
Among the call participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump; former Republican congressman Charlie Dent; Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump; and Miles Taylor, another former Trump homeland security official.
The talks highlight the wide intraparty rift over Trump’s false claims of election fraud and the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Most Republicans remain fiercely loyal to the former president, but others seek a new direction for the party.
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The House of Representatives impeached Trump on Jan. 13 on a charge of inciting an insurrection by exhorting thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol on the day Congress was gathered to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
Call participants said they were particularly dismayed by the fact that more than half of the Republicans in Congress - eight senators and 139 House representatives - voted to block certification of Biden’s election victory just hours after the Capitol siege.
Most Republican senators have also indicated they will not support the conviction of Trump in this week’s Senate impeachment trial.
“Large portions of the Republican Party are radicalizing and threatening American democracy,” McMullin told Reuters. “The party needs to recommit to truth, reason and founding ideals or there clearly needs to be something new.”
‘THESE LOSERS’
Asked about the discussions for a third party, Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, said: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden.”
A representative for the Republican National Committee referred to a recent statement from Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
ADVERTISEMENT
“If we continue to attack each other and focus on attacking on fellow Republicans, if we have disagreements within our party, then we are losing sight of 2022 (elections),” McDaniel said on Fox News last month.
“The only way we’re going to win is if we come together,” she said.
The Biden White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
McMullin said just over 40% of those on last week’s Zoom call backed the idea of a breakaway, national third party. Another option under discussion is to form a “faction” that would operate either inside the current Republican Party or outside it.
Names under consideration for a new party include the Integrity Party and the Center Right Party. If it is decided instead to form a faction, one name under discussion is the Center Right Republicans.
Members are aware that the U.S. political landscape is littered with the remains of previous failed attempts at national third parties.
“But there is a far greater hunger for a new political party out there than I have ever experienced in my lifetime,” one participant said.
Reporting by Tim Reid; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Peter Cooney
Interesting....
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THis guy discusses potential criminal trial coming up...
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Hopefully he keeps his trap shut.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Yo it was more of a Pence Hunt.